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I'm Kim Commando.

Today we're going to talk about how people are actually making money, real money, selling web domain names.

That's right.

Sometimes lots of money.

We're going to get to all that.

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Shoppingmalls.com was sold by a student of mine for $50,000.

That's Shoppingmalls.com. He says, how much you want for the,000 bucks. That's shopping malls.com.

He says, how much you want for the domain?

I said, I have no idea.

He says, how about 5,000?

So I said, yeah, sure.

And then he sent me 5,000 bucks.

He probably would have paid more for it.

These are sales that are being bought out by professionals in that industry.

It's very valuable to them.

Yeah, that's right. If you actually had purchased Cars.com 10 years ago, you would have made a ton of money.

I've heard some of Jamie Lewis's stories, and I got to thinking. You know what? I wonder how many

of our listeners have web domains, Twitter

names, social media accounts, just sitting around collecting dust, and somebody would actually

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