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Re:Domaining - Insure.com sells for $16mm by jacquesm on Sunday October 11, 2009 @03:09PM (#875096)
> How on earth did you pick that up?

I paid a boatload of money for it. It's actually a funny story because 'weight watchers' wanted it too and I was just a bit quicker. They had to have a few meetings to get the deal done and the seller was under quite a bit of pressure, I was ready cash in hand so I got it.

> I thought two letter .coms were reserved.

One letter domains are, two letter domains are just like any other.

Re:Domaining - Insure.com sells for $16mm by pclark on Sunday October 11, 2009 @03:35PM (#875135)
has the domain made a difference to your website?

can I have [email protected]?

Re:Domaining - Insure.com sells for $16mm by jacquesm on Sunday October 11, 2009 @03:43PM (#875147)
It basically generates a continuous stream of new people to the site that we can sell to. When we bought it camarades.com was on the way out, ww.com was launched first as a generalized webcam search engine, then we merged the 'corpse' of camarades.com and ww.com together and blew new life in to it. It has made some serious money since then. But I am kind of tired of the whole webcam thing.

Sure you can have [email protected], but please note two things:

- if the domain ever sells I can't guarantee that the buyer would let you keep that address

- you need a good spam filter because short emails are used plenty of time for people in 'bugmenot' situations

Where do you want the mail forwarded to ?

Re:Domaining - Insure.com sells for $16mm by quizbiz on Sunday October 11, 2009 @05:09PM (#875290)
What a nice gesture.

You could try monetizing the domain name that way. Branded emails. Or even sell the sub domain, w.ww.com, for big bucks.

Re:Domaining - Insure.com sells for $16mm by jacquesm on Sunday October 11, 2009 @06:05PM (#875368)
There's a plan!
Re:Domaining - Insure.com sells for $16mm by pclark on Sunday October 11, 2009 @03:53PM (#875158)
pinged you an email (my email is peter /at] broadersheet.com - if you could forward it there?) also be good to connect via email anyway :)