First Mega Millions Winner!

Baltimore man is the successful winner of the Mega Millions domain name. "Mega Millions" is the new name for the "Big Game" multi-state lottery. Man has domain for auction.

Baltimore man claims he is already a winner of the Mega Millions lottery before it even starts. On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, the multi-state lottery known as the Big Game" will become the Mega Millions" game.

In what was obviously a stroke of good luck", Steve Long won the right to register the domain name www.megamillions.us. In the most recent round of domain name registrations, he managed to be first in line to request the name. Mr. Long claims that it is worth a lot of money. Although lottery officials estimate ticket sales of the Mega Millions game will push the average jackpot to $80 million for the biweekly drawings, Mr. Long does not think the domain name is worth anywhere near that much. However, he does have the name up for auction at www.Afternic.com and says that he would like to see it sell for well into five figures."

Dot--us is Americas newest internet address. It is the official country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United States within the global domain name system (DNS). According to a 4/24/02 Harris Poll, more Americans prefer .us to .com for e-mail and websites. See www.nic.us for details.

Mr. Long claims that he never buys lottery tickets and is not likely to start now. He says that his jackpot will be the money generated from the sale of the domain name.

When asked who might be interested in bidding on the name megamillions.us, he suggests that there are a wide range of people and organizations that are interested for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the state lottery commissions might be interested. They already own the name megamillions.com. The nine states participating in Mega Millions are Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia and Georgia. Starting in September 2002, the game will also be sold in the State of Washington.

If you would like to find out how well the bidding is going, go to www.megamillions.us. Mr. Long also has a variety of other domain names available on his website, www.webidubid.com.