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Chronicle Article is Today’s Laugh — San Francisco

Article states domain name auction yesterday would have been “one of the first”.

A planned real estate domain name auction yesterday in San Francisco fizzled as no one placed bids. But an article in the San Francisco Chronicle regarding the auction will give you a chuckle. It suggests that this would have been “one of the first” live domain auctions:

The few who showed up felt more comfortable negotiating in private – removing the sale from public view and scuttling what would have been one of the first – and probably classiest – live auctions of domain names in the history of the Internet.

Classiest, perhaps. But one of the first? The author needs to do a little fact checking.

By the way, the next live domain name auction will take place in Washington D.C. on Tuesday afternoon.

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