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I just saw a banner for Russian search engine, which said "Buy words!" They mean what will be shown in commercial section when somebody enters "washer", for example. That's how people make money! They are selling words! Communists would put them in Siberia.

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This place sells words as domains, like egg, taste, box etc: http://www.name-shop.co.uk/
I was curious to see who owned Richard.co.uk and they do ...

[ May 07, 2003: Message edited by: Richard Hawkes ]

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I invented the concept of Zero.From now on any one who uses zero in the world should pay me 1 cent for one zero.

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I invented the concept of Zero.From now on any one who uses zero in the world should pay me 1 cent for one zero.
I see your point. So for 10 million zeros you should get 10,000,000� x 0 = 0. I can see some real growth potential here.

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The next logical step would be to sell letters. I wonder, if O'Reilly bought "O" letter from Google!

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The next logical step would be to sell letters

So far...
Tom

was bought by a Hong Kong company named Tom.com,the name cost more than one million hk dollar
I am not sure Thomas who was bought or not.

If the letters can sell, it must be very expensive.

[ May 07, 2003: Message edited by: siu chung man ]

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