Purplebricks says its vendors are Totally Sold – but just look to see who owns the domain name!

The new Purplebricks adverts tell potential customers that they will be totally sold on the service.

The accompanying hashtag drives the message home, as we reported yesterday. hashtag#teampb hashtag#totallysold

But guess who owns the domain name TotallySold?

None other than Russell Quirk.

It’s a dormant site, www.TotallySold.com, so doesn’t link to anything – although there’s no reason why it couldn’t.

Quirk says: “I bought it as a domain name in 2013, thinking it might be worth something one day. Seems like it is now.”

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7 Comments

  1. MichaelDay

    I wonder who tipped PIE off on this story?

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  2. LongInTheToooth

    Calling it a story is a bit generous

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    1. Ostrich17

      What would make it a story is the valuation.

       

      Come on PIE/Russell – how many millions is the domain worth?

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      1. PeeBee

        At least £100m – seems like the ‘in’ value at the minute.

        I expect it to be numptyfunded any day.

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  3. AgencyInsider

    It is called cybersquatting and it is an odious practice. Why am I not surprised at this latest example?

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  4. padymagic

    totallysold doesn’t really do much as it’s not a dedicated property website, could be for cars, washing up liquid in fact almost anything. Now let’s think of a web name that would really hit the spot….. I know how about………….. purplebroke ?

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    1. smile please

      purplepain.co.uk ?

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