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Domain names once again fetch top dollar

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On December 26, 2003, 2:19 AM

One more sign the technology sector is rebounding: An Internet domain name is again commanding seven figures.
Last week, a Florida man sold men.com for $1.3 million, a healthy profit over the $15,000 he paid for it in 1997.

The buyers, largely entertainment industry folks who have opted to remain anonymous behind the acquiring company, men.com LLC, want to create a portal for men.

Read more: [URL=http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/25/internet.domains.ap/index.html]CNN[/URL].

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  1. err... that doesn't sound so good, what about sex education, would that be education.sex or sex.edu. I guess it would work if the people volutarily chose the .sex domain name.
  2. [quote][i]Originally posted by khosw [/i]err... that doesn't sound so good, what about sex education, would that be education.sex or sex.edu. I guess it would work if the people volutarily chose the .sex domain name. [/quote] I guess they'd get an education either way, eh? :haha:
  3. [quote][i]Originally posted by chuonthis [/i]In the case where a company has ford.com (for example) and the .biz extension becomes available, I don't think Ford Motors should be trying to obtain ford.biz or ford.sex just so that they can have ford.*. The new extensions should be used for distinguishing different Ford companies, such as Ford Motors, the Ford Foundation, or even Ford's Porn Gallery. If people followed this, then Ford Motors wouldn't have to worry about having to pay big bucks to whoever nabbed ford.bat or whatever other ford domain that becomes available in the future.**This post brought to you by ford.com. [/quote] Close but no cigar. When you do "ccidentally"forget the .com it will do a search for all the ford sites, and as tech savvy as most businesses are today, they will probably want every one but .sex ( and maybe ever that to have it reroute you to the correct site. This way they get every hit possible and their competition doesn't.Your girlfriend didn't really want a cupie doll anyway.

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