When Al Salman decided to purchase a website domain for his business selling cabinets and countertops three years ago, the good dot-coms, dot-nets, and dot-orgs were taken. Faced with a jumble of 12- or 13-letter word combos, many of them strung together with unappealing hyphens, he decided to take a chance on dot-cc instead.

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