According to RFC2606, available at http://www.rfc.net/rfc2606.html, the following domains have been reserved for examples in technical and other writing:
In addition, the following TLDs are reserved for obvious uses:
Welsh village with the longest name in the UK:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Longest domain name in the world:
http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk
From Michael Tchong’s “GreatDomains.com” in ICONOCAST (24 February 2000):
In 1997, idNames.com sold “business.com” for $150,000 … That same domain recently sold for $7.5 million. Here are some of the more notable domain-name sales:
+------+---------------------+------------+ | Rnk | Domain | Sale Price | +------+---------------------+------------+ | 1. | Business.com | $7.5M | | 2. | AltaVista.com | 3.3 | | 3. | Loans.com | 3.0 | | 4. | Autos.com | 2.2 | | 5. | Express.com | 2.0 | | 6. | Fly.com | 1.5 | | 7. | Bingo.com | 1.1 | | 8. | WallStreet.com | 1.0 | | 9. | ForSalebyOwner.com | 0.8 | | 10. | Drugs.com | 0.8 | +------+---------------------+------------+