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Shein is a Chinese online fast fashion retailer. It was founded in 2008 by Chris Xu in Nanjing, China. The company is known for its affordably priced apparel. In its early stages, SHEIN was considered more of a drop shipping business than a retailer. Currently, the company is not involved in clothing design and manufacturing and instead obtains its products from the wholesale clothing market in Guangzhou. Based in China and shipping across 220 countries, SHEIN is the world’s largest fashion retailer, as of 2022. The company was valued at $100 billion after a funding round in April 2022.

So what price did Shein pay to acquire the domain name Shein.com… The domain name was sold to Shein via a sale on Sedo.com for $95,000 USD on the 29th of January 2015.

It appears the domain name Shein.com was owned by a domain name investor who has a small but nice domain name portfolio.

The screenshot below is taken from archive.org back in 2015 not long after they acquired Shein.com

The domain name Shein.com was registered on the 16th of January 1998 and who would have known back then it would be a domain name that represents a 100 Billion Dollar Company.