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Facebook prototype FaceMash.com sells for $30,201

By Tiffany Hsu
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An unnamed buyer has snapped up the domain name for Facebook-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s first social site.

The anonymous purchaser isn’t from Facebook or from Sony Pictures, whose recent film ‘The Social Network’ prominently features FaceMash.com.

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According to Forbes, the site has been defunct for years since Zuckerberg first launched it from his Harvard dormitory. The domain name sold for $30,201 at a public auction at Flippa.com.
Bids started at $10,000 on Oct. 5 and stopped after less than 10 offers on Oct. 25.

According to the auction page, visits to FaceMash.com normally rest around 600 a month but shot up to 1,000 a day just after the film opened.

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Tiffany Hsu

Tiffany Hsu is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she wrote about the California economy, fast food, restaurants, retail and alternative energy for the Business section. A Bay Area native, UC Berkeley graduate and eternal Nor-Cal fan, she once worked for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She also did a stint at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where she developed a passion for sweet tea. She still has faith that someday she’ll find two economists who agree.

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