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To: Dan Proctor who wrote (30129)	7/30/1998 2:43:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 97611

>> "... Compaq paid $3.5 million for the right to the altavista.com domain name >> (Digital, believe it or not, never owned the name; the site is found at >> altavista.digital.com)." >> Not exactly PowerBall, but someone hit the jackpot with that $100 investment to >> register the domain name! It was a $50 dollar investment. And if it improves Compaq's market cap by a couple of billion dollars just because they have reminded people that they own AltaVista, I suppose it was $3.5 million well spent...