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Hell didn't sell!

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posted Sat 28 Oct 06

Yesterday I spoke about the auctioning off of some popular domain names by Moniker down in Florida.  Many of them didn't sell, including the much hoped for hell.com.  

Many of the high valued domains failed to find a new owner, so no doubt they will be trotted out at a later date.  But some domains did fetch a large price, including cameras.com for $1.5M; so the old adage about a fool and his money is still very much alive.

Read the report on the auction here . 

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blackbadger 0.9.2 released (Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:58:58 GMT)

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