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Re:Color.com Was Acquired For $350,000 (The Domain Name, Tha... by ck2 on Thursday March 24, 2011 @02:24PM (#2365254)
The secret is these were not all cash sales.

Many times it's an "equivalent stock swap" which is bogus.

They publish large numbers for the publicity, old trick.

With "color" they probably had to pay cash, so it's a real sale.

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Re:Color.com Was Acquired For $350,000 (The Domain Name, Tha... by haploid on Thursday March 24, 2011 @02:33PM (#2365296)
As someone with a company that has purchased 6 and 7 figure domain names, I wonder why you make this assumption. All our deals were for cash, and I have no reason to believe these listed deals were otherwise.

Do you have any citations?

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Re:Color.com Was Acquired For $350,000 (The Domain Name, Tha... by danielayele on Thursday March 24, 2011 @09:55PM (#2366860)
Mint did a six figure stock swap in their Series A in exchange for the domain. See: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-story-behind-Mint-coms-deal...
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