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Boulevard of Broken .dreams

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pornforge dept.

kubla2000 writes "Salon has a fascinating article up examining the detritus of the dotcom craze of registering anything and everything as a domain name. This is, by turns, a tragic and hilarious piece... there's an irrisistable pathos to the fact that "FreeRoofTile.com" has expired as well as an urge to take a clue-bat to whoever "thought" to register it in the first place."

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  1. A simple commodity landrush like any other by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 4, Insightful
    To be fair, there was a year or so there where you could have made absurd amounts of money selling domain names. You probably still cna make a little scratch here and there - I'm sure the owner of "Slashdot.com" didn't give it away to this bunch for free.

    Otherwise you can apply all of the standard economic models recently applied to tulips, beanie babies, cabbage patach dolls, etc.

  2. This stuff isn't funny.... by Newer+Guy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Take the site: civilwarbattles.com. My friend's 13 year old son had to do a school report on the civil war, so my friend suggested they look there. Check it out yourself..then explain what this has to do with the civil war..and why the site owner is so irresponsible in his posting of porn there.

  3. In an alternate universe, not too unlike our own by guttentag · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Aug. 5, 2003 | It's late afternoon, you're thinking about dinner, and you realize it's been a long while since you had a good perm. Do you (a) head to the hair salon in your local strip mall and ask your beautician if she thinks you could use another or (b) sign on to Salon.com?

    I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you chose Curtain No.1. Fact is, you'd have to; the Web site Salon.com doesn't exist -- never did, so far as I can tell -- and the domain name expired on April 12. But the very fact that Salon.com has expired means that someone, maybe a year ago, maybe two, registered it. Someone out there, someone living among us, chose to bet that the road to online success would be paved with women who wanted their hair colored online.

    The arrogant fools.