Given that this [0] is very likely Gail’s husband (the guy who purchased the domain as a birthday gift for her in 1996), I don’t think they need the money.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rkevinwatson

(I found this by Googling “Kevin Watson La Cañada”, the defendant mentioned in the domain takeover lawsuit.)

Today I learned SpaceX is short for “Space Exploration Technologies”.

I made it to 11:50pm today before I felt inadequate.

I have one. I also have a /24 IPv4 address block. Back in the old days, you often registered both at the same. They were also free.

I own several 3 & 4 character .com/net domains and have never had any requests to purchase them. They are all too obscure to be useful I guess.

This one would only be super valuable to Google (Catch gmail.com typos) or if someone wanted to launch a product called Gail (in my opinion).

Paying a million or more for a domain to consolidate branding is common for example pop.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28223515 and I know Puppet Labs paid a pretty penny for Puppet.com when it became available, and they were able to rebrand once they had that domain.

Not only GMail, many of those hits might be people trying to reach Gas Authority of India : GAIL website .

It is www.gailonline.com

Technical co-founder of DigitalOcean owns wit.com (and he loves telling people) - he told me he's had offers well into 7 figures for it. 10000% sure he'll never sell it, ever, he loves it. :)

Last I heard they easily fetch 7 figures even for garbled acronyms. gail.com is a word, a name, a typo of gmail... in other words it's worth a fortune

Yes, but a homophone of "gale", so some people confuse it. So probably half a figure less.

Nope, only a couple hundred bucks: https://shortnames.com/llll . Two-letter .coms are often sold in the high 6 and low 7 figures.

I finally got it to work and got a 4 letter domain, wsvy.com, for only $250. Thanks for the suggestion!

I just looked at a few domains on that list and they were delisted within minutes.

zoom.com sold for $2,000,000 on 12/14/2018

https://shortnames.com/llll/sales#0U

I own awio.com and nobody's ever offered to buy it from me. It's not for sale, but 4-letter domains that aren't real words must not be so valuable.

aws.io is what you should’ve bought instead ;)

I'll give you $5 for it.

$3.51 final offer

The floor for random four letter .coms is only around $100 currently. Gail.com would go for 1,000-10,000x that though.

the shop that services my porsche owns epe.com. they have had several offers for $1M plus, but they will not sell it.

i only take my vehicle there because they own a 3-letter domain! ;)