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Izwan Ismail
New Straits Times
08-06-2007
Generating money from domain names
Byline: Izwan Ismail
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Tech & U; Notebook

INVESTING in unit trust funds, fixed deposit, share and property are normal ways of making money, but buying domain names with the hope that someone or some companies may want to buy them at a higher price a few years later is relatively new, at least to many Malaysians.

For the uninitiated, domain names are actually Web addresses such as www.malaysia.com, www.google.com, etc.
These are the addresses that you type in the Web browser that leads you to certain Web sites.

The domain name business is new to Malaysia, but in countries like the ...

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