A week ago, many mainstream news articles were quite critical of Blue String Ventures and its owners for trying to sell the Ebola.com domain name.  According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, a company called Weed Growth Fund, Inc. (formerly Ovation Research, Inc.) has acquired the Ebola.com domain name “for $50,000 cash and 19,192 shares of Cannabis Sativa, Inc. common stock owned by the Company.”

Cannabis Sativa, Inc. trades under the CBDS ticker symbol, and at the time of publication, it currently trades at $8.50/share. Based on the price of $8.50/share, the total value of the stock right now is $163,132, making this deal valued at over $200,000. According to the sale agreement  also filed with the SEC, the seller needs to hold on to the shares of CBDS stock for a minimum of 6 months per SEC rules.

Assuming a deal for the domain name is worth

A few months ago, Heritage Auctions announced that it would be auctioning the Bitcoins.com domain name, which is owned by Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange parent company Tibanne. Shortly after the news, the Wall Street Journal reported that a “U.S. court order temporarily blocked the company that operated the exchange from selling assets,” and the auction didn’t happen.  I visited the Bitcoins.com domain name today, and I saw a message that says the following:

“BITCOINS.COM is for sale
Please contact us if you would like to purchase BITCOINS.COM.

This domain was created on Thu 30 Mar 2000 10:48:38 PM JST and can be bought from us.”

On the contact page, prospective buyers can fill out a form to inquire about the domain name. In addition, there is a mailing address for prospective buyers to send their inquiry via postal mail. Postal inquiries are directed to Tibanne Co.,Ltd. in Japan.

On the Bitcoins.com homepage, the company lists a variety of

The Ebola virus has been in the news for the last few months due to the serious outbreak in western Africa.  I think  the frequency of news articles is  only going to increase now that the first case of Ebola has been diagnosed in the United States. I also believe that more people are going to be searching Google and Bing for information about Ebola as a result. With this news, I thought it was interesting to see two exact match Ebola virus domain names come on the market.

For quite some time, I’ve known the founder  of the company that owns Ebola.com, Blue String Ventures. The company  has owned Ebola.com  since 2008. Now that Ebola is in the news even more, I reached out to him to find out some details about Ebola.com, and he let me know the company recently  put the domain name up for sale.  DigitalDNA  is  the domain broker, and the company has not established an asking price for Ebola.com.

At the present time, there is

I just learned that House.com has been sold, with Domain Holdings serving as the domain name brokerage in this transaction. I am told the sale price is confidential, although I understand the original asking price had been $2.5 million, which was later reduced to $1.5 million. My guess is that this was a 7 figure transaction but that is really just a guess.

Based on the current Whois record, the registrant name is listed as Hangzhou Duomai E-Commerce Co.,Ltd, which is a company based in China. The buyer appears to be associated with domain name marketplace 4.CN, as the registrant street address is listed as “please contact with 4.cn brokers.” The registrant appears to be the same company that has been buying other exceptional domain names, including WW.com and MM.com.

The seller of House.com was listed as