Ebola.com Sold for $200,000 by An Internet Real Estate Entrepreneur

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An internet real estate entrepreneur, who held on to Ebola.com for six years, has reportedly sold it for $200,000 (£124,000). Jon Sc...

An internet real estate entrepreneur, who held on to Ebola.com for six years, has reportedly sold it for $200,000 (£124,000). Jon Schultz’s Blue String Ventures capitalises on the popularity and demand of high profile domain names – investing in them to sell on at a later date at a higher price.

Blue String Ventures bought Ebola.com in 2008 for $13,500 and earlier this month Mr Schultz, who also owns birdflu.com and H1N1.com (Swine Flu), had claimed that a “reasonable” offer would be around the $150,000 mark, considering the website is bringing in 5,000 page views each day.

In an interview with the Washington Post he explained that his business is largely a waiting game and that the deadlier an epidemic is in the West, the more bucks it could rake in: “Our domain birdflu.com is worth way more than Ebola.com. We’re definitely holding onto that one for the event. “That one’s airborne and Ebola would never go airborne in the United States like bird flu can

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