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Domain Names Worth Their Weight in Gold Again

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-not-much-then-is-it dept.

prostoalex writes "So far in 2006 domain name on.com fetched $635,000, Macau.com was sold for $550,000, blue.com was sold for half a million, and Jasmin.com was bought for $310,000. With the exception of the last domain name, which is currently used for erotic video chat, the rest of the domains run some sort of domain parking ads. USA Today talks about revived interest to domain name trade, and companies like Marchex, a 'leader in vertical and local traffic', which happens to own a .com domain for every single zip code in the United States. There's also a report that in the few days that .eu domain names were made available, 1,454,218 European domains were registered."

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  1. NOT SAFE FOR WORK by minus_273 · · Score: 5, Informative

    That last link Jasmine.com is definitely not safe for work. Slashdot linking to porn on the front page without a warning. Nice going. Oh, wait, no one even reads the F'n articles.

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    1. Re:NOT SAFE FOR WORK by StevenHenderson · · Score: 2, Informative
      Looks like someone got all excited when they say a pr0n link...the next sentence says "With the exception of the last domain name, which is currently used for erotic video chat".

      Literacy is fun.

  2. Re:Bah!!! by QuickFox · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm amazed that Google accepts and encourages the domain-squatting parasites. They are link farms! How are those inane squatter pages better than the link farms that Google frowns upon?

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  3. Re:Bah!!! by ejito · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just because a domain is currently using a parked page doesn't mean their intent is to sell domains or leave the parking page up forever. If a site is on hiatus, then parking pages can serve as a source of revenue or at least a traffic redirection.

    I have domains I currently use for email but don't have corresponding websites.

  4. The slashdot name. by aliquis · · Score: 2, Informative

    The name does have something to do with the content.

    Slashdot = /. = inverted ./ = path to the current directory in unix.

    I think that matches "News for nerds" quite well.

  5. Cybersquatters retort by TheDrewbert · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check out this "definition" of cybersquatting from LinkUWant.com, a link farm who is holding the URL of the name of my company.
    http://www.linkuwant.com/website/cybersquatter.php
    "This term is used by envious corporate world executives and attorneys."
    Feel free to slashdot them.

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