creditcards.com sells for $2.75 million
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Many years ago I sat with my head in my hands as single word, generic, domain names were selling for truly silly money at the height of the dotcom boom. Mainly because I had the opportunity many years before to register pretty much any domain name I fancied and simply did not grasp the investment potential at the time. Perhaps the most infamous of these generic domain sales would have to be business.com which sold for a whopping $7.5 million (
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