Given that this [0] is very likely Gail’s husband (the guy who purchased the domain as a birthday gift for her in 1996), I don’t think they need the money.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rkevinwatson

(I found this by Googling “Kevin Watson La Cañada”, the defendant mentioned in the domain takeover lawsuit.)

I have one. I also have a /24 IPv4 address block. Back in the old days, you often registered both at the same. They were also free.

I own several 3 & 4 character .com/net domains and have never had any requests to purchase them. They are all too obscure to be useful I guess.

This one would only be super valuable to Google (Catch gmail.com typos) or if someone wanted to launch a product called Gail (in my opinion).

Paying a million or more for a domain to consolidate branding is common for example pop.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28223515 and I know Puppet Labs paid a pretty penny for Puppet.com when it became available, and they were able to rebrand once they had that domain.

Technical co-founder of DigitalOcean owns wit.com (and he loves telling people) - he told me he's had offers well into 7 figures for it. 10000% sure he'll never sell it, ever, he loves it. :)

Last I heard they easily fetch 7 figures even for garbled acronyms. gail.com is a word, a name, a typo of gmail... in other words it's worth a fortune

zoom.com sold for $2,000,000 on 12/14/2018

https://shortnames.com/llll/sales#0U

I own awio.com and nobody's ever offered to buy it from me. It's not for sale, but 4-letter domains that aren't real words must not be so valuable.

The floor for random four letter .coms is only around $100 currently. Gail.com would go for 1,000-10,000x that though.

the shop that services my porsche owns epe.com. they have had several offers for $1M plus, but they will not sell it.

i only take my vehicle there because they own a 3-letter domain! ;)