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Old 08-08-2004, 11:25 PM  
Theo
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true Todd

Taboo, I can easily see me paying 50k for harmony.com, but as you said I don't see the picture at the moment behind clearday purchase.


Here's a possible scenario behind some of the domain sales:

Company A located in States/Europe/Australia/Canada buys domain X from Company B located in Antigua.
Same people behind both companies. Company A passes as expense the purchase of the domain. Company B receives money and pays the minimal taxes in Antigua. (Antigua is just an example,im not familiar with their corp tax rate,but many such countries have minimal one.)

Outcome: Company A pays less taxes at the end of the financial year. Domain gets some publicity and has a chance to be sold even higher even if the "real value" (if we can say that) is already much lower.
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