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In the old times people would ask others for their business address, telephone number and email addresses, but a great addition to this is ‘What’s your Website Address?

With the boom of web 2.0, a lot of domain name lengths are becoming extinct (2, 3 and almost 4 characters gone). Buying domain names has now become a big trend amongst internet entrepreneurs which serve different purposes. And to further analyze to what purpose they use it for, it’s best to analyze the buyers.
Domain Name Buyers could be classified in two ways, Non-Profit and For Profit.
Non-Profit Domain Name Buyers:
1. Charity
Non-profit organizations would fall under this category, their website’s purpose is to raise awareness for a certain cause. An example website for this is WWF .
2. Family / Friends
The reason they buy domains is to connect with Family and Friends, it’s quite an old trend as people use Social Networks and Email to connect. I don’t see much of this online anymore, and those that are online are not updated and some expired.
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