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Incidentally, books.com was taken early on (say 1990) by an outfit in Ohio. Pre-web, they had a telnet interface.



There are a couple of institutions in the Seattle area that have pretty good generic domain names, presumably because of the tech connections in the area. For instance, the Washington State Fair has the domain thefair.com.


Local zoo is zoo.org!


Oh yeah, forgot about that one.


Imagine the Seafair pirates or Almost Live! shaking everyone down for domain names.




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