The Sheboyan Press reports on 8/6/07 that "A 41-year-old Sheboygan man was charged today with selling his employer's domain name and using corporate credit cards to finance international trips with a stripper girlfriend, according to complaint filed today in Milwaukee County Circuit Court."

The domain name was sofa.com.  It would be interesting to know how he managed to sell it, and to whom!  This DN Journal article about late 2005 domain sales may contain a bit of that information.

And, given the not entirely up-and-up nature of the sale, it seems like he got a pretty good price.  So, er, congratulations?

DomainNameNews.com reports that the Dallas Cowboys, who apparently purchased the domain name at the same Moniker live auction which sold table.com this past week, are pulling out of an agreement to buy Cowboys.com.  It appears that their representative believed that they were buying the domain for $275, rather than $275,000 (In my opinion, that is still a very, very reasonable price for an entity like an NFL team given the brandable opportunites).

The Conceptualist blog, in its article Moron of the Year Award on this topic, quotes T.R.A.F.F.I.C. co-founder Rick Schwartz confirming the breakdown. Says Schwartz, "You can't take your family to a football game for $275!!!"

Moniker then moved the domain into their ongoing silent auction where it was bought by an investment group for even more, $370,000.