Arizona man bought the Lambo.com domain and tried to get $75,000,000 from Lamborghini but his plan didn’t end well
Published on Dec 04, 2025 at 5:33 PM (UTC+4)
by Henry Kelsall
Last updated on Dec 04, 2025 at 5:33 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Emma Matthews
Some people save up for a Lamborghini supercar, but one man from Arizona wanted to buy the Lambo.com domain name and even reached out to get $75 million from the Italian car company.
The man in question wanted to own the domain, having bought it from an investor in 2018 for an already large sum of money.
Lambo is commonly seen as the shortening of the full name, and many know exactly what it means when something is called a Lambo.
But the investment by the man from Arizona led to a long legal battle and a lot of legal bills to pay.
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The story behind the Lambo.com domain name
In February 2018, the man from Arizona bought Lambo.com from domain investor John Lambeth.
At the time, he paid $10,000 for it and thought he might have hit the jackpot.
He hoped to get money from the supercar manufacturer for the name.
After this, he rebranded himself as Lambo across the internet.
He even did so on the NamePros forum.
However, judges then stated he had only adopted the moniker after purchasing the domain.
That timing massively weakened his claim to Lambo and the domain as personal assets.
What he did do, however, was simply sit on the website and begin to bring the price for it up and up, from $1.13 million to a staggering $75 million.
Lamborghini became involved over the domain
No commercial activity was ever linked to the name, nothing was available on the site, and no services were offered.
This meant that the US anti-cybersquatting rules were heavily against him.
One arbitrator tried to argue that Lambo was not an official trademark.
But this strengthened the car company’s case, which then cleaned up its trademark portfolio.
Lamborghini then filed a trademark application in America for the Lambo name, protecting it from other chancers.
All of this backfired massively against the man who had bought the domain name.
In October 2024, the legal case concluded in favor of the supercar manufacturer.
The man at the center of all this would not get a single penny from the company.
The judges even ruled that his quoted value of the asset was pure fantasy.
After all that, all this man from Arizona got was a hefty load of legal bills to pay.
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Henry is a content writer with nearly ten years experience, having written for various publications since 2017. Qualifying with a Sports Journalism degree from Staffordshire University, Henry loves all things automotive but has a particular soft spot for classic Japanese cars and anything Lancia. He also has a curious passion for steam locomotives.
