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- inactive, on 02/05/2008, -19/+97Buried as yet another website that thinks UK = England. Give it a rest, would you?
- trouble916, on 02/05/2008, -0/+38I dunno, seems like a pretty good buy to me...
Wife: Hey on, Nigel, let's go on a cruise.
Husband: Sounds smashing, where do you go to look up CRUISES?
Wife: Silly bugger, Cruises.com of course!
Husband: Oh golly, Marge, we're in the UK... don't you mean cruises.co.uk?
Wife: What a silly bunt. - 1b2a, on 02/05/2008, -2/+36A square is a rectangle.
- sicc, on 02/05/2008, -4/+29It's about prosperity and no one hi jacking type in traffic, and the age old if people will pay it then.. lol Still a great domain name to own.
- StatiK69, on 02/05/2008, -0/+24I can purchase more than one cruise at a time? Sign me ups!
- bullcutter, on 02/05/2008, -3/+26transactions like this (of this magnitude or larger) are commonplace and happen every day.
why is this story on the front page? - brundlefly76, on 02/05/2008, -1/+22Actually, his usage wasn't incorrect, just selective.
However, your correction was definitely pretentious. - trogdor282, on 02/05/2008, -4/+22But you do have to admit that there ARE pasty Englishmen in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- Blandyman, on 02/06/2008, -0/+18The cake is a lie.
- qwertylicious, on 02/05/2008, -2/+19Or UK = GB
Nothing to do with the article, but still... - techeric, on 02/05/2008, -2/+18... and this DIGG is just giving it more momentum towards being worth what was paid.
- lionpirate, on 02/05/2008, -4/+14Not front page material
- inactive, on 02/05/2008, -0/+9A square is a quadrangle.
- negativefx, on 02/05/2008, -7/+16such a travesty...i hope all of the UK will make it through these tough times
- calon9, on 02/06/2008, -0/+9I wanna build a time machine and send myself back to '96, when I first started using the net, and try and convince my past me to spend all his time and savings on registering domain names... but also tell him not to step on any butterflies.
- MtheoryX, on 02/05/2008, -0/+8Who says we're limited to dictionary words? Last time I checked 'dig' was not spelled with a second 'g' at the end.
- seantubridy, on 02/05/2008, -5/+13Hey everybody, did you know you can buy more than 1 Apple computer at a time? I just bought a MacBook and a Mac Pro Tower at apples.com. Check it out!
- inactive, on 02/05/2008, -3/+10Unless that domain was already generating a ton of revenue on its own, you're right.. a complete waste of money.
- V1be, on 02/05/2008, -2/+9Cruises.COM would definitely be worth what he paid. In the long run, though, almost all of these domains, including the one from the article, will justify their price and more. The internet isn't going anywhere but dictionary words are. Demand ^ Supply v
- tommyredcoat, on 02/05/2008, -0/+7I just had a friend sell a domain he bought for $14.99 three years ago to some company in Venice for $3,000 . It doesn't take much to see how Kevin Ham makes his fortune. If I thought there were any domains worth purchasing left in the world I would debate getting into that line of work.
- tdous, on 02/06/2008, -0/+6And I for one would like to congratulate them for their success in the world's most boring sport.
- inactive, on 02/05/2008, -1/+6Ok, this is stupid. Companies buy domain names similar to theirs all the time to avoid cybersquatters and catch people who can't spell the domain name right. Bad excuse to make a social commentary statement.
- plingboot, on 02/06/2008, -1/+6tomcruises.com would get more.
- entrophize, on 02/05/2008, -1/+6I still think there's money to be made off www.hahayoucanthavemydomain.com
- KungFuJesus, on 02/05/2008, -1/+61.1 million USD is only like 4 GBP now right?
- jimbouk, on 02/05/2008, -1/+5It's only about £50 anyway
- inactive, on 02/05/2008, -2/+5Anyone wanna buy i-know-a-sucker.com?
- MtheoryX, on 02/05/2008, -1/+4You're correct: That's dumb...stupid...idiotic...very unworthy of a post in the comments. Stop being dumb.
- justok, on 02/05/2008, -0/+3you forgot the "com" at the end
- adooga, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3Wow, the title and description were pretty much the WHOLE ARTICLE! Buried as *****.
- synaesthesia, on 02/05/2008, -0/+3Check out Sedo.com's list of recent purchases and see some of the stupid ***** that gets purchased for pretty hefty chunks of cash. Its definitely tempting but obviously, the professionals and companies with automatic domain snatchers have that ***** on lock.
- andsix, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3After that, I'll sell you i-know-a-suckers.com for a cool mill.
- renesisx, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3If you're a UK travel agent selling to UK people, then a .co.uk is worth more to you. Research shows that UK citizens are roughly 6 times more likely to click on a .co.uk than a .com.
- Condemned, on 02/05/2008, -0/+3It was worth it, I bet they were losing a lot of traffic to him
- DigTheDoug, on 02/05/2008, -0/+3She was only making plans for Nigel.
- inactive, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3A square is a shape.
- dotdan, on 02/05/2008, -3/+6because this is digg and trying to understand the domaining industry is more work than making jokes about it.
- bullcutter, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2new address suffixes will get rid of this problem, supply ^
- badfishmedia, on 02/05/2008, -4/+6I love when the Brits try and say Americans are stupid:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ...
"A fifth of British teenagers believe Sir Winston Churchill was a fictional character, while many think Sherlock Holmes, King Arthur and Eleanor Rigby were real, a survey shows." - NathanielJ, on 02/05/2008, -1/+3An article about "the world's stupidest domain" on valleywag.com? How deliciously ironic.
- Innominate227, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2http://www.googleitbitch.com/customize/
what are you doing there storing everything in some database and then pulling it up using the id when they click the link.
Would it be more efficient to just yo do it like this http://www.googleitbitch.com/?term=bla - dijo, on 02/05/2008, -1/+3Good businesses make decisions like this every day. Props to the business guys.
- ebcreasoner, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2yes, but dig.com is!
- phoomp, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2The *world's* real-estate bubble? I think the only real-estate bubble bursting is in the US.
- funkytaco, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2I beg to differ. Zwinky.com is the world's stupidest domain name.
- Kr4t05, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2At least they didn't by cruises.co.ck.
Oh, I am horrible. - scabbers, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2It might be that the whole gay cruising thing worried them, because the kind of old people who go on cruises would freak if they landed on a gay cruising site... then write to the Daily Mail.
- Textbook, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2I bought www.googleffs.com a couple weeks ago - nobody had it yet.
- jo42, on 02/07/2008, -0/+1> cruise.co.uk
Gay porn site? - weycrest, on 02/05/2008, -0/+1dnscoop.com values the domain at $53,428. Bargain! Based on Alexa Rank, inbound links and age:
1,281 Inbound Links
157,802 Alexa Rank -
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