Unknown firm pays £135m for .web domain

Dan Worth
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VeriSign could be business behind blockbuster buy

An unknown company called Nu Dot Co has paid a staggering $135m for the right to the .web generic top-level domain (gTLD). The firm beat off competition from the likes of Google and web registry fi...

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