GoDaddy Removes Fake $100 Million Listing for Bitcoin.com Domain
The domain name of Bitcoin.com, a popular digital currency-related web platform, was listed on GoDaddy for sale on Monday. However, the company has removed the listing after the CEO of Bitcoin.com, Roger Ver, raised a complaint.
Roger Is Not Selling Bitcoin.com
On Monday, Bitcoin.com was placed on sale for a minimum offer of £72,301,352 (i.e., US$100,462,728) on the web hosting and domain registrar company GoDaddy. A lot of Twitter users in the crypto community commented on that.
Ver immediately reached out to GoDaddy asking: “Why are you listing my domain name for sale? It isn’t for sale. […] Please remove this fake news that is damaging my real brand,” as he wrote in a message reported by The Block, adding that it was 100 percent fake news.
About Bitcoin.com
Bitcoin.com is a popular cryptocurrency web platform that offers several services related to Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), including buying and selling the cryptocurrencies, wallet service, etc. The domain is currently owned and managed by Roger Ver, an early promoter of Bitcoin.
It remains unknown why the domain was listed on sale on GoDaddy.
Other crypto-related domains went up for sale on GoDaddy, including:
- Crypto.com sold for $12 million to Monaco in 2018
- Ethereum.com up for sale for $10 million in 2017