It wasn't sold for $3K, as far as I can tell. The screenshot linked to reads "Do...

		pavpanchekha on Sept 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Root access to MySQL.com sold for $3k - now servin... It wasn't sold for $3K, as far as I can tell. The screenshot linked to reads "Don't bother calling if you don't have $3K". Now that might mean asking price or it might mean an order of magnitude, but it certainly seems like the domain was positioned as on auction.