Man who demanded $75M from Lamborghini for Lambo.com gave an unlikely excuse for why he wanted the domain
Published on Dec 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis
Last updated on Dec 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Mason Jones
Somebody once bought the Lambo.com domain and tried to sell it to Lamborghini with a bizarre excuse.
He wanted $75 million for it, but in the end he didn’t get a penny.
We’re no legal scholars here but we think his argument may have hurt his case.
It certainly didn’t help him.
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Here’s what happened with the Lambo domain
Back in February 2018, a man in Arizona somehow managed to buy the domain Lambo.com for about $10,000.
Lamborghini had obviously already bought the Lamborghini.com domain about a thousand years ago, but the Lambo.com domain was still available, and this guy thought he’d struck gold.
But that’s not what happened.
There are two problems.
First, he tried selling his domain to Lamborghini, which is at least logically understandable, but then second, when the controversy escalated in court, he allegedly came up with an excuse that ended up hurting his defense.
He apparently tried to argue that he’d only bought the domain because he liked it, and because it was close to the word ‘lamb’, which was apparently some kind of nickname he was using.
The problem is that he rebranded himself as ‘Lambo’ across the internet after this claim, which means his case was DOA.
It didn’t take long for the court to be like, ‘yeah, nice try’, and rule in favor of Lamborghini, which was then able to claim the domain, apparently for free.
Why you can’t really flip domains these days
In the early days of the internet, some people made a fortune ‘trading’ domains.
American Bitcoin investor Michael Saylor did this in the 1990s, when he bought a bunch of one-word domains like voice.com and made a fortune.
This strategy is very difficult to replicate today mainly because big companies generally already own every available variant of their name.
And even when they don’t, they’ve got enough money to fight legal battles forever, which is something the average Joe can’t do.
History of the most expensive domains ever sold
1998: AltaVista.com becomes the first domain to sell for seven figures ($3.3 million)
2001: Hotels.com becomes the first domain to sell for eight figures ($11 million)
2011: Apple buys iCloud.com for $4.5 million
2014: Tesla buys Tesla.com for $11 million
2019: Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy (now Strategy) sell voice.com domain for $30 million
