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Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by abdusco on Thursday May 27, 2021 @10:42AM (#27303720)
https://ma.tt I wonder how much that domain costs. 2-letter domains are always sold at a premium regardless of TLD.
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Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by vishnu_ks on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:52PM (#27305175)
Matt Mullenweg actually registered the domain for $500 per year for the first 2 years :)

.tt domains are quite expensive in general so I think he got a pretty good deal for ma.tt

https://ma.tt/2008/01/on-matt/

Interesting conincidence, the .blog TLD used by diff.blog, is owned by Automattic, the company started by Matt Mullenweg :)

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Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by vishnu_ks on Thursday May 27, 2021 @01:39PM (#27305819)
Ahh. Another coincidence. It's 18 years today since the first wordpres release was made by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.
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Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by sneak on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:02AM (#27303955)
Google's featured snippet answer suggests that the owner of that domain has a net worth of $400mm USD. It's indeed a nice flex.

I had a cheap five-byte domain once, but the registrar decided one day to up my renewal fee to five figures, so I don't any longer.

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Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by thiht on Friday May 28, 2021 @03:36AM (#27312697)
According to nic.tt it ranges from 600 to 2000$ for 3 years. If the domain was bought on aftermarket, it was probably way more expansive though
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