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Domain Registration Contest May Turn Venezuelan Into A Millionaire
from the keep-on-registering dept
Well, doesn't this story bring you back to the days of domain squatting? It seems that a couple years ago Rufi Guerrero, a teenager in Venezuela, found out that the eņe character (ņ) character was going to be included in domain names. He bet a friend to see who could register the most such names before their money ran out. Guerrero won, by registering eight addresses for $15 each, including espaņol.com and espaņa.com, which combined may now sell for over a million dollars. Some are claiming that Guerrero's registrations weren't legit - since they were done before VeriSign officially started registering domains with that character.
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