Sex.com sold for $14 Million the most valuable piece of virtual real-estate on the planet. What’s in a name? For the owner of sex.com, a cool $100 million a year. With five million page views every day, sex.com the dubious jewel in the crown of the newborn internet. But the fact that it didn’t physically [...]

Only about 6 single letter and single digit domain names have been registered by a few lucky or ###### insiders. ICANN reserved all single letter and single digit second-level domain names in the TLDS .COM .NET .ORG back in 1993. This was done in case the registries for these domains became overloaded (smells fishy to [...]

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