Top 10 TLD Sales of All Time, and Why @shop on Bitcoin Is Not .shop at Verisign
2 Lists:
On the left, the top 10 TLD sales of all time: .web at $135 million, .shop at $41.5 million, .bank at $30.2 million, then .loan, .online, .tech, .site, .fun, .store, .blog. Corporate buyers. ICANN-era roots. Multi-year contracts.
On the right, the Spaces explorer. @shop already registered for about 3,000 sats. @bank gone for about 10,000 sats. @loan in the tens of thousands. @web still in auction. @online, @site, @store, @blog still sitting there for anyone who would open a bid.
The point underneath was not that @shop is worth $41 million. The point was that the same words were going for dinner money on Bitcoin, and that only matters if Spaces Protocol becomes the place people actually resolve a name. This article keeps that comparison, updates it for mainnet handles, and tells you what to buy if you want adoption instead of a museum of cheap roots.
What those million-dollar TLD sales actually bought https://bitbane.com/top-10-tld-sales-of-all-time-and-why-shop-on-bitcoin-is-not-shop-at-verisign/
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