wheel - 7:37 pm on Nov 23, 2011 (gmt 0)

I own {my first name}.{my country's ccTLD}. I got lucky years ago, the ccTLD was under tight restrictions and then they opened them up - I made the lottery and won it.

I've contacted the owner of the .com, he's never shown any interest in selling, now he's got it parked and showing those parked domain ads. Personally I'm happy with my version.

The only benefit from this is that it confirms your geek status, and makes for a really easy to remember email address - I'm {firstname}@{firstname}.{ccTLD}. So if you know my first name and the country I'm in, you know my email.

In terms of value, I wouldn't buy the .com for $5K....but on the other hand I wouldn't sell my ccTLD for 5K either. I wouldn't sell it for $10K. It'd have to be enough to overcome the emotional benefit of owning the domain.