Omidyar had tried to register the domain name echobay.com, but found it already taken by the Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company, so he shortened it to his second choice, "eBay.com".
Однако доменным именем "EchoBay.com" владела золотодобывающая компания Echo Bay Mines, и название было сокращено до "eBay.com".