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Jon Yau · · 7 min read

How to ask your wife for permission to spend $250k on a domain name

Photo credit: BBC

Photo credit: BBC

“Honey, how would you feel if I told you I was having an affair?”

“ARE you having an affair?”

stare

“Could we ever recover?”

“I’m not sure I could.” She forces out a quivering reply. “I would be disappointed. I would be sad. It would devastate me,” she declared.

“That’s good to know. Lucky for you…I’m not having an affair.”

“That IS lucky. For your sake, that is,” eyeing me off.

Glare

“I’m not having an affair. Nor do I want to have an affair. What I DO want is a change.”

“A…change,” she ‘hmphs’ a dubious ‘hmph’.

“What do you have in mind?”

“Well, Honey there’s this really cool domain name for sale. It’s only $250,000,” I blurted, finally.

What happened next?

Two years on…what now?

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Jon Yau

I launched my startup on the back of an $250,000 exact match domain. Stockphoto.com opened for business in 2013 and is an online marketplace of over 20m+ stock photos.