Ha, no. 3 letter dotcoms were still worthless in 1998, I don't think they were quite all used up. Especially ones with a hyphen in them. Going back to 1994 I owned a whole bunch of domains that later got sold for 7 digits. All dotcoms were free in 1994. It was later they started charging for them, so I let them all expire.
I'd have been a millionaire many times over if I could have read the future. All those Bitcoins I mined in early 2010 and lost all the keys/wallet.
Sure thing. I meant you could have sold it later, in the 2000s. I remember finding many 3-letter .com domains in 1996/97 but didn't want to shell out ~$100/year or whatever netsol was asking for those days.
It's ironic that you could've made more money than you would have gotten from VCs with that domain name. You probably didn't know that back then.