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"DNASequencing.com" Going Once, Going Twice … Sold?

Sep 17, 2010

As part of Epik.com's Domain Developers Conference in Seattle, the domain investment and development firm auctioned off "DNAsequencing.com," among other Web addresses in its portfolio of 318 genetics-related domain names yesterday. (Epik's DNAsequencing.com currently hosts an abbreviated list of the company's DNA domain name holdings, here.) According to CEO and chairman Rob Monster, "owning a massive amount of Internet real estate associated with DNA sequencing, genetic mapping, and personalized medicine can be a windfall for a biotechnology company that wants to control the space and capture the associated Internet search traffic." Other dot-com domains put up for live auction yesterday? PersonalSequencing, DnaSequencingCompany, DnaMap, and both GenomeCode and GenomeCodes, among others.

HT: Center for Genetics and Society's Biopolitical Times

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