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One can only wonder how much this domain is worth today.
by seumars 3y ago
One can only wonder how much this domain is worth today.
- madars 3y agoOne can only speculate as there are only two other single-letter .com's (q.com and z.com) and there won't be others [1] . Wiki article says "GMO Internet, Inc. purchased Z.com for nearly $6.8 million from Nissan, who previously used it for the Nissan Z series cars." [2] For comparison, asking price for b.org or r.org are $500k but .org's typically command less than .com's. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom... [2] https://www.thedomains.com/2014/11/21/z-com-sold-for-6-8-million-dollars/ https://www.thedomains.com/2014/11/21/z-com-sold-for-6-8-mil...
- Atheros 3y agoIt has to be worth a lot less than that today. The number of young people who visit websites ever in any given week is dropping. Reddit's usage among young people shot up after mobile apps were developed for it, not before. Domains just don't matter as much anymore.
- lesuorac 3y agoI suspect the real thing that'll hurt its price is people are realizing websites can end in stuff besides `.com`. i.e. MrBeast (~XX M views) had a recent video sponsored by the `.store` registry.
- jonas-w 3y agoAs I mentioned in another comment [0], a domain which looks like X.com but is a Unicode X https://xn--vm8a.com/ https://xn--vm8a.com/ can be bought for 9,000,000 USD and I'd think that the real X.com is worth much more, as it doesn't get converted to puny code [1]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36844079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36844079 [1]: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode