From Hand-Registrations to the Aftermarket: How Domaining Became a Resale Business

In the earliest days of the commercial internet, domain names were not thought of as assets in any meaningful economic sense. They were more like technical necessities, strings of characters that allowed a website to exist at all. When individuals and businesses registered domains in the mid-to-late 1990s, they did so primarily to use them,…

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