Would you blow $5.6m to own a dot-word?

That's some ka-ching I do not have!

[tangor]

A further $13m was spent yesterday on auctions for the ownership rights to three new soul-sapping dot-word domains: .spot, .salon and .realty.

Amazon outbid Google and gTLD powerhouse Donuts to pay $2.2m foe the rights to sell dot-spot addresses; Donuts beat L'Oreal and two others for dot-salon at $5.1m; and top of the heap, domain investor and entrepreneur Jay Westerdal beat Donuts to dot-realty, paying $5.6m for the rights to sell web domains ending in the word "realty".

[theregister.co.uk...]
Those domain names you've been hoarding for years are looking a bit dated...

[edited by: tangor at 3:33 am (utc) on Oct 24, 2014]

[tangor]

Sadly, the real bidding will be for "hot" and a word, "the" and a word and ... and... well I can't think of a word for that other word. :)

Those who think we have too many tlds hold up your hand...