You can go out right now, and buy a domain from any number of providers for under ten dollars USD. Or you can open your cheque book (Check book for you Yanks) and score yourself something like local.com. The difference is that a nice name like local.com will set you back $700,000. I’ve racked my brain, but I can’t think of a single way that owning local.com could possibly earn back that money in a manner that a 10 dollar domain couldn’t. But hey, I never had any real urge to buy Mayfair in Monopoly either so what would I know? read the full story at Netcraft.