I had an inquiry on one of my domain names from an end user buyer the other day that made me laugh. My domain name is parked on the Domain Name Sales platform, and instead of monetizing it, there is an inquiry form so that visitors know that the domain name is for sale.

Instead of filling out the form, the prospect called me on the phone. He called DNS as well, which is how I know that he had visited the landing page before connecting with me. After a brief conversation, he asked for the price of the domain name, and I shared the low five figure price, which I think is fair.

He sounded surprised and told me

Last night, I reported about the sale of the Gox.com domain name to Mt. Gox parent company, Tibanne Co. Ltd. The domain name was sold by domain investor Andy Booth, who confirmed the sale of Gox.com and provided some additional insight about it.

Joe Politzer of DN.BIZ, the domain name broker who negotiated the deal on behalf of Booth, shared some additional details about the sale. Below is the account from Politzer, which I think is interesting. Although the sale price is not being revealed by the seller or domain broker, I think you’ll appreciate his recap:

“The short story of the deal starts back in mid December when Andy’s brother James of Booth.com added us as a broker for

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Adam Dicker recently opened a subforum at DNForum for people to sell domain names for Bitcoin (I wrote about it here). At the time, I said “I would accept any form of spendable and reportable currency for a domain name if the value was right and I could use or convert the currency. You can pay me in US dollars, gold, Bitcoins, or even a luxury watch if you wish.” After careful consideration, I do not think I would accept Bitcoin for three reasons.

For speculators, the large swings in Bitcoin values can be a good way to make money. It’s probably a high risk trade, but for people who are experts in that space (and/or use algorithmic trading perhaps), there is money to be made – and probably quite a bit of it. In addition, there are massive price differences at trading exchanges such as Mt. Gox and Coinbase. On Mt. Gox right now, a Bitcoin is worth around $150, and at Coinbase, a Bitcoin is worth about $590. I wouldn’t want to sell a domain name for $5,000 in Bitcoin only to find out that it is worth much less when I try to cash out.

As far as I am aware, Bitcoin isn’t