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Japanese ISP Buys Z.com Domain For Close to $7 Million

By CircleID Reporter
  • November 21, 2014, 5:23 pm PST
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One of Japan’s leading Internet services providers and domain registrar, GMO Internet, Inc., today announced the acquisition of the single-character domain name, Z.com for JPY ￥800 million (close to USD $7 million). According to the company, the acquisition is part of a plan to unify its global strategy under the brand name, Z.com and building GMO’s “core values and objectives into the Z.com brand.”

Z.com is one of the only three single-character domain names currently existing in the .com space and only six single character domains exist in legacy generic Top Level Domains (Q.com, X.com, and Z.com, I.net, Q.net, X.org).

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