Yes, one company I worked for shortened their domain by buying it for €500k. Original owner of the domain never used it. I can't remember what the original dom

Yes, one company I worked for shortened their domain by buying it for €500k. Original owner of the domain never used it. I can't remember what the original domain was now; I thought I knew but it's in use by a different company (and has been for ages, verified by Internet Archive), which kind of proves the point of the article.