Businesses were hungry for the domain name sandwich.com, which Yahoo sold Thursday for $137,500 to an unnamed bidder as part of its week-long Domainapalooza sale. Yahoo was auctioning off more than 100 website domain names, but most failed to reach their reserve prices and thus weren’t sold. Only 10 domain names were sold in the auction, Domain Name Wire reported . Sandwich.com had a reserve range of $50,000 to $99,999, but the winning bidder passed that threshold to gobble it up. No word at deadline who the new owner is. But I wouldn’t be surprised if his first name was Jared . Yahoo (YHOO) acquired sandwich.com when it purchased Mark Cuban’s Broadcast.com during the dot-com bubble, Domain Name Wire said. Yahoo purchased the money-losing Broadcast.com, an early streaming audio and video service, for $5 billion in stock in July 1999. Another former Broadcast.com domain, cyberjokes.com, sold Thursday for $4,100. Yahoo sold its …
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Mystery bidder gobbles up Sandwich.com from Yahoo