by Temitope Onitiju
The merchant of misery and owner of Ebola.com, Jon Schultz, has sold the domain to a company called the Weed Growth Fund for a six-figure combination of cash and stock holdings that adds up to $214,000(N35,239,380).
The seller of Ebola.com, Jon Schultz is the owner of Blue String Ventures, which also owns H1N1.com and Birdflu.com, among others. He bought Ebola.com six years ago for $13,500, and had previously said he thought $150,000 was a reasonable price for the domain.
The payment for the domain was made by Weed Growth Fund in a combined $50,000 in cash and $164,000 in stock in Cannabis Sativa Inc., a marijuana company that sells medical and recreational products.
Cannabis Sativa, which acquired a marijuana research company called Kush back in July, is run by former New Mexico governor, Gary Johnson.
Schultz believes his other disease-related domain, Birdflu.com will fetch him more money than Ebola.com. He says the Birdflu.com domain is far more valuable because, unlike Ebola, Bird Flu has the potential for an airborne outbreak.
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