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The valuation of Facebook today is placed at about $70 billion. For this exercise let's place Facebook's valuation at $40B. IF the previous owner of the facebook.com domain had done some research on user growth stats of thefacebook at the time, he/she would have recognized the opportunity to offer the domain at 0 cost in exchange for only 1% of Facebook shares. TheFacebook would have had no choice but to accept the deal.
For purposes of this exercise I will be assuming that 5% of FB today is worth an even $2B, meaning 100% FB = $40B. So the exchange of facebook.com domain for a 1% share of the company would have been worth $40,000,000 today. And that would not have been the most expensive domain ever sold but would have been one of the most expensive domain transactions to date.
Are you sitting on the perfect domain for the next big thing? Do some research on your enduser and exercise some foresight before you name your price.
For purposes of this exercise I will be assuming that 5% of FB today is worth an even $2B, meaning 100% FB = $40B. So the exchange of facebook.com domain for a 1% share of the company would have been worth $40,000,000 today. And that would not have been the most expensive domain ever sold but would have been one of the most expensive domain transactions to date.
Are you sitting on the perfect domain for the next big thing? Do some research on your enduser and exercise some foresight before you name your price.