The business of buying aftermarket domain names. By Michael Hess. July 9, 2013 / 8:50 AM EDT ... bringing the total number of registered domain names to more than 252 million worldwide.

After reading “Being Digital” by Nicholas Negroponte in 1995, she began to realize the potential of the World Wide Web and started buying unused domain names, or, as she calls it, “Internet ...

Internet business partners Ari Goldberger, left, and Larry Fischer, demonstrate recently how they search and buy domain names on the Internet, an estimated $2 billion industry. AP photo Internet ...

Many businesses operate on what I call the “one website theory.” That is, they buy a single domain, add content on a regular basis, and try to drive as much traffic to that domain as possible ...

U.S. Airways is reportedly interested in a possible merger-type deal with American Airlines' parent company, AMR Corp. One way it is showing its affection? Buying up domain names.

These are boom times in an estimated $2 billion industry that involves the buying and selling of Internet domain names — the dot-com addresses you type into your Web browser.

Intense push on to grab new Web domain names. By Ben Tracy. June 14, 2012 / 9:44 AM EDT / CBS ... (CBS News) SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- The Internet is about to change in a big way, ...