Buy and sell premium domain names

Holds a portfolio of valuable domain names and sells them, using brokers to handle the deals. Income comes from large one-off sales.

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Source

Hacker NewsComment by 77yy77yy in “Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?”, December 11, 2016

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