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Z.com has been sold for $6.8m (£4.3m, 800m yen) to Japanese domain biz GMO Registry, putting it in the top ten of all-time domain name sales. As one of only three single-letter dot-coms available – the others being Q and X – the domain was previously owned by Nissan (for its Z-series of cars) and will be used by GMO Registry …

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  1. Khaptain Silver badge

    Marketing Vomit

    Strangely enough, from the list of all of these so-called high-market value domain names, I have never visited any of them.

    The names are so generic that they become bland.

    Which of the following sounds boring

    www.sex.com

    or

    www.hardcore-jiz-sluggin-leather-bound-skanks.com

    See how generic just seems fruitless and unappealing... And yet they have deemed them to be worth a small fortune.

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    1. Oninoshiko
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      Re: Marketing Vomit

      the first one is much easier to type, although I think most just type whatever they're looking for into the bar at the top, let the browser forward it to google and let the chips fall where they may.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Marketing Vomit

        > I think most just type whatever they're looking for into the bar at the top

        Ah, you think that's how is done, yes? I see.

        [ It's not online porn unless it involves an NNTP client, btw. ]

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Marketing Vomit

      > Which of the following sounds boring

      Well, the second let me down with a 404. :-(

      Which was only barely less interesting than the first, I must admit. :-( :-(

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Holmes

    All this really shows is...

    ...how completely worthless $1 million dollars is now.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Re: All this really shows is...

      Glad you feel that way, I'll take your spares.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Holmes

        Re: All this really shows is...

        Can't spare them right now. Trying to put together $7 billion to purchase "zz.com".

        Can you IMAGINE how popular that will be? It's so amazingly 3D. And stuff.

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        1. frank ly
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          @Andy Prough Re: All this really shows is...

          zz.com - a double blade cutting edge website! What could be better than that?

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        2. P. Lee
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          Re: All this really shows is...

          >Can't spare them right now. Trying to put together $7 billion to purchase "zz.com".

          For the French market? <shrug>

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  4. Strange Fruit

    Are domain names worth much at all?

    At a client's the other day and witnessed him going to his desired site by typing facebook into the google search box. The Android browser also encourages this by scrolling the address bar out of view as soon as it loads. How many non-techies use the address any longer, particularly when browser writers are all combining the address field with search?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Are domain names worth much at all?

      > How many non-techies use the address any longer,

      How many techies, for that matter?

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  5. K.o.R
    Trollface

    I can almost hear the whalesong emanating from the post...

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    High value domains used for money laundering/tax evasion

    IMO a lot of these high value domain purchases are simply money laundering and/or tax evasion.. basically people reduce the profits of some onshore entity by wasting a lot of it's profit on a domain name which gets bought from some offshore tax haven entity.

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