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http://www.domaininvesting.com/andy-booth-sells-gox-com/

you can't make this shit up folks! enjoy the night its one for the history books!

Haha I typed in goxxed.com and it redirected to Kraken.com ... awesome.

why would you buy a domain name in the same few days you apparently become insolvent?

I saw one where it went to some parody site LOLz

omg its coming back? NO NO KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

Isn't the official website mtgox.com though?

As one person put it "twitching, its still alive!" ....

They didn't just become insolvent... They've been insolvent since their USD bank accounts were appropriated by the FBI; they've been surviving by selling coins on other exchanges to cover operating expenses.

just getting better and better..

They still think they can come back, rebranded and customers are stupid enough to get goxxed a fourth (or is it fifth or sixth) time.

They won't be MtGox .... they will be Gox the new Bitcoin super exchange. Ready to sign up?

they will start to trade LTC, or Dogecoin lol

It's worked for them so far and it works for the dark markets.  You can't really blame them for believing that greed will over-ride common-sense when that's been their experience of Bitcoin users so far (people have continued depositing funds to MtGox even after withdrawals were halted, FFS).

The worst part is if they are insolvent they just spend god knows how much of depositors money on that domain name. 

That's the thing I don't get. If it's too good to be true, it probably is. When all the other exchanges are trading >500, there must obviously be a reason mtgox is < 200 - a reason which we all now know.

Exactly... they're just digging a deeper hole for themselves because their future business model is not going to succeed.

FUD

gox was registered using godaddy by a domain parker (now known under formal titles as domain investors.) if mtgox did buy it from the investor then it would contain kalyhost information.

seriously people are trying to create FUD as a game to see if they can get it into mainstream media. please will everyone start researching before posting

Bro, you are spreading FUD. See:

x@x ~/DL $ whois gox.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
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   Domain Name: GOX.COM
   Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC
   Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
   Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
   Name Server: NS-1009.AWSDNS-62.NET
   Name Server: NS-1173.AWSDNS-18.ORG
   Name Server: NS-1637.AWSDNS-12.CO.UK
   Name Server: NS-345.AWSDNS-43.COM
   Status: clientDeleteProhibited
   Status: clientRenewProhibited
   Status: clientTransferProhibited
   Status: clientUpdateProhibited
   Updated Date: 24-feb-2014
   Creation Date: 10-oct-1997
   Expiration Date: 09-oct-2017

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Registrant Name: Mark Karpeles
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x@x ~/DL $

;D this is it we speeding mt gox is back yeah

Agreed. That's a nice three letter .com domain and can't have been cheap.

Seems like really bad timing to me. Unless of course they actually still do hold all the funds and just need to sort themselves out and re-launch a more secure site. The chance of that seems pretty slim now though...

And the news gets more exciting by the minute. Wish I didn't have to go to sleep so soon. Meh...

i can buy a domain and put in the name and address details of:
Jean Luc Picard
StarFleet
Outterspace

which prove nothing of actual ownership and control

but when you look at where the domain name is hosted... its NOT KALYHOST. which anyone that has been following bitcoin / mtgox long enough, knows that kalyhost is mark Karpeles.

if anything its just a promotional stunt, pure for the aim of keeping hope alive for those mtgox users locked from their funds

That couldn't have been cheap, I say it cost him over $60k easily. But knowing the domaining industry for most of my adult life, the recent sale of BitcoinWallet.com and BitcoinWallets.com at $250k would have prompted the owner to raise prices considerably. So my best guess is $150k to $250k easily, if in fact he purchased it.

Frank: I understand what you are saying and it's correct. It could be like you are saying, but it's not.

The domain was bought today, Mark obvious got other problems now then updating nameservers.

unbelievable isn't it!!  :o

So someone not affiliated with Mt. Gox purchased this domain for what would be a very hefty sum of money for the purpose of maintaining market confidence? Some how I'm just not buying that theory, the domaininvesting.com article seems pretty conclusive imo...

Not to mention updating the security certificates for HTTPS connections. Takes a while for domains to propagate through the whole series of DNS broadcasters and even longer for SSL to confirm the new IP's as "gox" or "mtgox", or both.

Also not easy restructuring the whole website to use one, or the other, or both, as valid page-loads for accounts and forwarding.

You're forgetting Mark's arrogance/ego.  He would have absolutely assumed that someone would want to buy MtGox out (as if, given that they're knee-deep in legal shit for the foreseeable future) or that the heavyweights of the community would put together a rescue package. 

It's likely inconceivable to Mark that nobody regards the "mighty MtGox" as worth rescuing and that "community heavyweights" are distancing themselves from him and MtGox as fast as possible.  That MtGox is not going to be given "one more chance" is probably inconceivable to him.

How many times have you seen this before in business - an owner hanging on and hoping for miracles long past the point where it's become apparent to others that it's past the point of redemption?  Such behaviour almost inevitably makes things worse for creditors, but it's far from uncommon.