Re:Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs
by otterpro on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @01:37PM
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Speaking of DEC.com, it was purchased for $57,500 few years ago by Paul Kocher. I'd say it was a bargain, considering the rich heritage of DEC and it's alexa ranking.
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Re:Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs
by icedchai on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @02:12PM
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It makes me wonder why would Compaq / HP, or whoever was owner of DEC at the time, have let this valuable asset go for so little...
Re:Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs
by adventured on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @03:25PM
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Yahoo began liquidating a bunch of old domains back in ~2013 (eg AV.com, formerly owned by AltaVista; Sled.com; and Sandwich.com for $137k, formerly owned by Broadcast.com, among hundreds of others), HP might have been doing something similar. Sweeping out the closet. $57k for a solid three letter domain with history certainly does seem cheap. I wonder what Musk paid for X.com, to get it from PayPal (surely seven figures).
Re:Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs
by ghaff on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @08:45PM
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How valuable was it really to HP/HPE? It's a domain name for a long-gone computer company. It's not like HPE has a big business in legacy DEC gear.
Even if someone else can wring some money out of it with ads or whatever, HPE isn't in that kind of business. Even for a big company, $60K is still $60K if you can get it for something that ha no value to you.
Re:Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs
by nodja on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @03:19PM
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Whoever owns the trademark can file a trademark dispute and get the domain back for "cheap".
Re:Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs
by dddw on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @04:04PM
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just like hydrox cookies
Re:Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs
by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @03:21PM
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Why would it have a high Alexa rating. Seems suspicious.