International Law

What do Britons really value?

A fun story from The Guardian:

Porn? Sex? Britons value cruises much more

It used to be sex that mattered most, but the world of internet domain names was rocked by a more genteel pleasure yesterday as a tour operator made cruises.co.uk the UK's most expensive piece of dotcom property.

The website cruise.co.uk has paid the German travel company Nees Reisen £560,000 for the rival name cruises.co.uk. The price paid for that extra 's' in the address - called a domain name - dwarfs the last largest British dotcom domain deal, when recycle.co.uk was bought by City financiers ASAP Ventures for £150,000 in October.

The price for British domain names is still well behind the levels reached for US - or .com - addresses. Sex.com remains the world's most expensive domain name after it was bought for $12m (£6.1m). Many of the other top US names changed hands during the dotcom boom of the late 1990s including business.com for $7.5m and beer.com for $7m in 1999.

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Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).