
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Since 1974, an international standard has governed the assignment of two-letter identification codes to every country and territory on Earth. When the internet came along, those codes were used in website domain names, and it didn’t take long before outside companies started using them too, paying premiums for some particularly marketable codes. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with journalist Amy Thorpe about the profitable domain name marketplace.
4.4
7171 ratings
Since 1974, an international standard has governed the assignment of two-letter identification codes to every country and territory on Earth. When the internet came along, those codes were used in website domain names, and it didn’t take long before outside companies started using them too, paying premiums for some particularly marketable codes. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with journalist Amy Thorpe about the profitable domain name marketplace.
1,263 Listeners
1,642 Listeners
882 Listeners
8,639 Listeners
30,915 Listeners
1,356 Listeners
10 Listeners
38 Listeners
5,495 Listeners
1,444 Listeners
9,552 Listeners
3,595 Listeners
5,420 Listeners
1,323 Listeners
82 Listeners
221 Listeners
133 Listeners