Facebook paid a million dollar sum by the fb.com domain

People often wonder, how you get to getting a domain that initially has a small value worth millions of dollars?.

A few days ago we knew the official news that Facebook had invested a large sum of money in the purchase of the domain name fb.com agricultural group of United States called farm bureau. This domain has as destination contain new messaging service that Facebook intends to offer soon.

December 15, the founder of Facebook, Mark zuckerberg, expressed his interest in the domain name to the agricultural group but without establishing still a money supply. In the agreement Facebook clear that the only requirement so that they will buy the domain name was that Agrícola continue working. This requirement allowed Facebook that the purchased domain does not remain in oblivion. So, to continue to exist the company farm bureau, many users accederían to your old domain finding new services of Facebook.

After the annual meeting of the agricultural enterprise in Atlanta, on Tuesday decided to accept the offer after the appraisal, stood at $ 8.5 million. However, the name of the buyer was not provided. In addition the company farm bureau continues to work on the domain fb.org.

As you can see the key to get the value of a domain to multiply is the fame that gets it. This success is achieved with time and hard work that no doubt will give fruit in the future.

Source: http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2011/01/11/farm-bureau-finds-wealthy-friend-in-facebook/