The million dollar mystery behind Milk.com
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20 min
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2 min
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Sales & Revenue
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What It Covers
Planet Money investigates why milk.com remains a personal website despite domain names like chocolate.com selling for over one million dollars recently.
Notable Moment
Dan Bornstein reveals he could have registered dan.com or daniel.com in 1994 but chose milk.com based on his workplace nickname "Milk Boy" instead.
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