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Clipboard seems to be what Gary Flake left Microsoft for. If he didn't happen to own the domain already, I'm sure he had the resources to acquire it.

• gwf 14y ago
  I bought it around January of 2011, when I knew I was going to move forward with the concept. It seems kind of tacky to share the amount, but it cost about 5-10x less than what most people guess, as the previous owner was extremely reasonable.
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  • andrewljohnson 14y ago
    What a silly response. It's not a tacky question, and you just don't want to say for understandably selfish reasons. The rest of the world would still like the data point.
    • mustpax 14y ago
      No one has an obligation to tell you about their private financial transactions because you want a "data point."
      • evoltix 14y ago
        Obviously there's no obligation. It was just a smug move to decline to share the price.
  • tuxguy 14y ago
    Amazing effort, @gmf & team. Super impressed & for years i have cribbed there is not a good way to save, with context, really AWESOME & insightful HN comments, for future perusal, archiving & searching. IMHO, it does not seem tacky at all to share the amount, especially as a fellow hn reader explicitly asked to know it. Obviously, you have every right, no to disclose it, for whatever reason.