29 July 2016

.web gTLD sells for $135m in auction

Nu Dot Co, a subsidiary of US-based Straat Investments, and Vistaprint have successfully acquired the .web and .webs new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) for $135 million and $1 million respectively.

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