By Flippa Internet auction was sold domain FaceMash.com – the same one that Mark Zukarbarg register to create a university social network that later became the prototype of a social networking site Facebook.com. Zukarbarg registrar in October 2003 while still a student at Harvard University. Now, this domain was sold for 30,201 dollars.
The history of FaceMash is quite funny: in 2003 the head of the student at Harvard University Mark Zukarbarg was born the idea of creating a site that allows for the formation of an evaluation of the charms of students.Mark gets into the databases of the various dormitories, download pictures and names and using the algorithm provided by his friend Eduardo Saverin creates page address facemash.com, where students can vote, whichever shown girls are more attractive.Server of the university can not sustain the load and “fallen” on the first night. University administration is conducting an investigation and Zukarbarg was “awarded” with six months probation.
However, later the idea of creating a social network entirely absorbed Zukarbarg because he understands the direction of the perspective of social resources.
The auction to sell the Web address was opened on 5 October site Flippa. The description of the auction organizers called Facemash.com “part of the history of the Internet” and emphasized that the history of the resource is reflected in popular form in the film “social network” which was released in October, the day of the sale of “historic” domain.
Ten buyers are interested in the domain.Name purchased it has not yet been disclosed, but general manager Dave Flippa Slattskin commented that the winner of the auction is neither an officer of Facebook, neither company Sony Pictures (who shot the film “social network”).