"Others are wondering whether ***ANY RANDOM THING*** is the first sign of the global economic downturn"

Is the media-invented "recession" America's new bogeyman?

As for the auction, no-one wants to bet on a loser.

Business.com appears to still be for sale ... or for sale again perhaps.

And to think I was chuffed at getting $900 for a speculatively registered domain name.

(Note to self: Must Try Harder)

I can understand sex.com going for a lot, because it's pretty much a brand in itself. America dot com would only sell to someone who wants to establish a brand called 'america dot com' - it doesn't have such an obvious application as sex.com, clothing.com, carhire.com, theatre.com etc.

And yes of course there's a global downturn, and businesses are tying purse strings - this would almost certainly be a relatively frivolous purchase.

Isn't that anything ending in .gov.uk?

I'd prefer uk.co.uk - more fnu!

I happen to know that america.com was listed for a cool $30,000,000 back in 2001, Of course, a domain is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it.. it's not actually "worth" anything at all by itself.

I am sure George Dubbaya has already got a secret dossier blaming alkeeeedaaa for the recession.

Also it wouldn't surprise me if the UK governement hasn't already bought that domain ;-)

Mines the expensive looking one that I got for a couple of quid on ebay

I would buy it ... if only to make it a site reminding our fellow USians that "America" is, in fact, a WHOLE CONTINENT spanning from Canada to the Patagonia.

Some geography schools have separated said continent into North, Central and South America, but those subdivisions are as much a "continent" as Eastern/Western Europe are.

Remember kids, the Olympic rings represent one continent each, there are 5 rings: America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania.

some one bought it and redirected all traffic it to aljazeera or one al queda's front businesses!!!! or irans main gov website! or a porn site...

Could be, they just "google" it... The problem is, some people eventually still do type the URL they want (or what they think it is).

So a lady, friend of mine here in the lab, at home, tried to go to the website of a popular store for sports apparel here in our US city: Dick's Sporting Goods, popularly called Dick's. Let's say that she did not suspect that the real URL was quite long (http://www.dickssportinggoods.com), and tried to guess it, something shorter of course. You get the picture (or not). We laugh about it all the time.

Geologically, North and South America are two separate continents.

If we were to follow the second ACs line of thought that if we make one continent of them, we'd have to add Africa to the Eurasian continent, too.

For what the rings stand for, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_symbols#Flag

Ok here we go again, a few people need to learn how to look things up.

There are 5, 6 or 7 seven continents, depending on where you live and how you define them. This is because there is no standard.

5 (offically) Inhabitated (the Rings)

6 if you use the "Americas"

7 If you have North America and South America.

Contary to what they may think, there is no USA continent

Back on topic, the reason it didn't sell as it would take people 72 hours to get access to it if there was a problem. Then you would have to supply your DNA, family history and anything else they trawl in the desperate attempt to find you related to a Muslim.

www.sickwrongfilth.com seems to be still available......

Paris because I'm sure she'd get an honourable mention on that website