When you have a chance, please take a look at BH.com and I think you will find the landing page interesting. Click on the left side, and you’re taken to the Bell Helicopter website. Click on the right side, and you’re taken to an Elsevier website. I believe both of these companies are publicly traded and very large.
If you don’t choose which page to click, visitors are automatically redirected to the Bell Helicopter website after waiting 15 seconds.
It appears that the BH.com domain name was transferred from Elsevier’s ownership sometime between August 30, 2010 and September 7, 2011,when Bell Helicopter became the domain registrant. I did some research, and I don’t see any information about the sale of the domain name, although I imagine it must have been sold for a good deal of money.
Other potential suiters for this valuable domain name may have been Berkshire Hathaway or BH Photo & Video, a HUGE photography store in New York City. I wonder how long the companies will “share” the landing page, and if the domain sale/acquisition will eventually be reported publicly.
Thanks to George Kirikos for the tip.
Has to be mid 6 figures, if I was a realtor in Beverly Hills, I would want to own this.
@ Ron
Didn’t even think of Beverly Hills.
a 7 figure name if I ever saw one. Of course B&H Photo came to mind first since im in New York but those other options make this a truly remarkable name.
Take a look at Berkshire Hathaway’s present site. I don’t think they would be willing to offer more than $100…
lol Mike. Many financial companies (especially hedge funds and holding companies) have spartan websites….
Both DQ.com and JM.com are owned by Berkshire Hathaway companies, by the way.
Warren Buffet would have a heart attack if they paid the money this company probably paid to purchase this domain.
Then again he was at JayZ’s club the other night.
Rick Schwartz used that trick early on with men.com- called the enter button on a split landing page- example men.com typed in gets landing page w/message men wanting sex with men enter here, men seeking sex with women enter here
He also applied it on real-estate.com though the swayback machine doesn’t do it justice
http://web.archive.org/web/20090412130955/http://erealestate.com/?
nice find Elliot, thanks for sharing the info… interesting way to transition ownership : )
I am glad Owen Frager reads this because I want to tell him how misaligned his articles, and statements are.
I know this is not nice, but why don’t you post something relevant, or factual, you twist your words, and sound like a self obsessed crazy man.
I really wish your titles would go away from domaining.com
The BH.com “splash page” lander is now gone, and it’s a full redirect to BellHelicopter.com — any transition period for the sale must have ended.