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Trivia Lands on Jeopardy — Domain Name

Trivia Lands on Jeopardy — Domain Name

Final Jeopardy question tests contestants’ domain name knowledge.

ICANN’s blog has a story regarding one of this stretch’s “Final Jeopardy” questions on the popular Jeopardy game show: “On March 10, 2003, this nation got control of the .af internet domain”.

The answer is “What is Afghanistan?”.

This trivia got me thinking regarding a few other possible Jeopardy answers for domain name trivia buffs. Most of the “questions” can be found on Reglike. I’ll publish them later, but take a crack at them in the comments section.

1. As stated by eCompanies founder Jake Winebaum, this is how much his firm actually paid for Business.com following seller Marc Ostrofsky cashed out his $7.5 million of stock.

2. This firm manages the .info registry.

3. This is the fresh name of the firm that paid regarding $10 million for the domain name IRS.com.

4. The second most popular domain name extension in terms of registration, as stated by VeriSign.

5. In 2008, he sold his firm Name Intelligence to Thought Convergence.

6. This firm’s domain registrars include Blue Razor Domains.

7. This famous tech blogger helped found and run domain name firm Pool.com.

Domain Name Jeopardy trivia

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