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Domain Names Worth Their Weight in Gold Again
prostoalex writes "So far in 2006 domain name on.com fetched $635,000, Macau.com was sold for $550,000, blue.com was sold for half a million, and Jasmin.com was bought for $310,000. With the exception of the last domain name, which is currently used for erotic video chat, the rest of the domains run some sort of domain parking ads. USA Today talks about revived interest to domain name trade, and companies like Marchex, a 'leader in vertical and local traffic', which happens to own a .com domain for every single zip code in the United States. There's also a report that in the few days that .eu domain names were made available, 1,454,218 European domains were registered."
To all those companies that are being so helpful in "parking" domain names for me and then charging outrageous prices to "register" them........ FSCK YOU!!!. Seriously though, how many of you have tried to go out and register even the most obscure of domain names for your website only to have companies like Marchex or GoDaddy say "Sure, we'll get that domain for you for the low, low price of $5000.00" (or more). This is the concept of the middle man taken to criminal levels. Can someone enlighten me as to what benefit(s) they provide? What services do they provide? Is there anything good at all about these companies or are they simply parasitic ticks feeding off the belly of the Internet?
:-)
And what does it say about the market audience when domain names with misspelled words (like Mortage.com) can go for $242,000?
Oh, I forgot.... at least one domain level parking company provides Microsoft with advertising because they "parked" all of their unused domains on IIS servers....which......appear at some level to be able to handle those traffic loads.
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I've been holding back on this one but ... OK, that's it.
shavedteenasiancamwhoremyspacediggxenisucks.com is now for sale.
Bidding starts at $500,000.
Anyway, didn't read shit because I didn't know if I was supposed to go to .com .net or dont.care
If you buy and hold a domain name for more than a year before selling it for thousands of dollars, do you pay the U.S. IRS long-term capital gains tax? =)
How much does a record on hard drive weigh?
Think about it.
And now, thanks to Slashdot, they've got tons of extra traffic plus a one-way link from a PR9.
bort.
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Domain Names Worth Their Weight in Gold Again
So how much exactly does a domain name weight? I'm thinking those that paid half a million dollars got ripped off badly.
Oh no... it's the future.
.com is for companies companies should be registered therefore only your company is allowed your.com this is actually the case with .com.au to the point that you can't sell the domain without the company, additionally business names have rules (for instance can't have a business that sounds like someone else's or purports to be something it is not like a corporation)
.com administrators apply the same rules instead of going for a money grab
Why can't
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Yesterdays news was showing how someone got shopping.eu
According to the report an independent institute valued the name at 300000 €
-- ubersonic Kfz Versicherung
"Why can't .com administrators apply the same rules instead of going for a money grab"
Don't you hate it when land developers buy up all the land and refuse to sell it to you at the price you think they should?
That last link Jasmine.com is definitely not safe for work. Slashdot linking to porn on the front page without a warning. Nice going. Oh, wait, no one even reads the F'n articles.
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I used to laugh at people that said we are experiencing the Dot-Com Bubble all over again, but after reading stories like this... Should those people be dismissed so quickly?
-William Brendel
What about the three that I own? Do they own those too? :)
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And meanwhile, Microsoft gives away domain names (and some web space, too) for free: http://www.officelive.com/
First, why did the price of registering domain names get so cheap? I mean, how much are these companies paying now to register domain names? $1 each? Less? Where does this money go? Does it go to the people who have to maintain these DNS servers with bogus parking domains? If we think about how spam got out of hand, you could imagine that someday 90% of all domain names are "spam".
Why did we have to make registration so cheap to begin with? I don't see what's wrong with charging $50 for a a year for a domain name. If someone needed it that bad they should pay up. Now with the ultra low cost anyone can buy up a bunch of domain names and sell them back for an excessive fee.
So... when will legislation be inacted to prevent domain parking? It's obvious that parking a domain can bring no benefit to the economy or society, it's just an unecessary middleman tactic. Also, registering a domain name and a copyright are two seperate things. If you own the copyright you should definately be able to sue these domain parkers for infringement.
It's just absolutely ridiculus that we got into a situation where every imaginable word, phrase, or typo is now registered.
WTF? What does this mean? They drive vertical and local traffic by redirecing 90210.com to local Beverly Hills companies? Sure they do...when I want to perform a search for Beverly Hills (90210), for example, I type in the Zip Code instead of the city name. Dumba$$es. Let's test their theory of driving vertical and local traffic when I type my zipcode plus .com into IE and Firefox....
15 seconds later...in both Firefox (with Adblock) and IE 6 SP1...I get NOTHING but blank screen. Maybe Spysweeper is blocking whatever I see or is preventing a redirect to some sort of shitty ad or malware infested site. In either case, as long as users continue to implement antivirus, anti-malware/spyware and anti-spam software, squatters like Marchex will not make much money and eventually won't even be able to afford the domain renewal fees, even from Bob's Domains-R-Us type of registrars.
"That was to expected from a company that went public and reports to their shareholders. Lots of money and values don't go together."
Yeah! Just look at the Catholic church.
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Coupled with a strong US economy, no wonder the dot.com days are comming back!!! Yey, finally I get to wear more casual clothes to work. Oh, maybe now I can ask for a raise too. =)
For those in the UK, your unemployment rate is at a fantastic 2.9%
Hell ya, let's keep the momentum going!!! Bout damn time too. Good times are ahead, good times!
Life is not for the lazy.
My wife a few years ago wanted to get into pet items, beds, toys etc etc and so I bought her a pair of domains to start the shop ( petluxuries.com etc ), alas, 6 months later and our lives had changed a bit and the pet luxuries idea was out the door, a shame since it's a rather profitable market. So now we're left with two domains that aren't much use to us, so what better to do than to sell them.
:( ) only to find 6 months later that they finally did renew it at the last minute. 4 weeks I can understand but -6 months- ?
What does iritate me though is when I'm trying to buy a domain which is held by a mass squatter and despite seeing the domain become expired you can't even aquire it (due to the 3~6 month wait period
Paul.
well, while there's "no such thing" as a "gold electron", a gold atom must have electrons.
According to here: http://education.jlab.org/qa/electron_config.html a neutrally charged gold atom has 79 electrons.
I haven't bothered to go an do the research to work out what the difference in the number of electrons is when the atom is positively or negatively charged.
I also leave it to you to work out the atomic weight of a gram of gold (or use the appropriate troy measurement), and then work out how many electrons you'd have, and what they'd be worth at the current price of gold.
Oh, and keep in mind, that once the electron leaves the gold atom, it's not a gold electron anymore, since electrons are all the same.
This is basic capitalism in action. As long as there are people willing to pay up a fortune, there will be people to try to sell it for a fortune.
Thing is, you don't have to have the money if you have the imagination. I've recently started brainstorming for domain ideas for some projects I'm releasing in the next couple of months, and I can assure you that despite it being difficult and sometimes frustrating to find a good name for free, it's ALWAYS possible to get one, if you so wish.
When I mention my domains I always get the question "how much you paid up". So I say: "Well I paid up 10 bucks" and get a frown of disbelief. Thing is I've better ways to spend a $5000 than for a domain name.
Here are a couple of very recent examples:
futuremethod.com/net (and fmethod.com/net for short): For my little web design firm team.
binaryconcert.com: Where I'll soon post experimental electronic music.
JUGAI.com: A home for a virtual gaming console concept I'm still working on.
DonBeats.com A site selling hip hop beats I did for my friend, who goes by the nickname Don Perinion. This site ranks on the first or second pages for terms like "beats for sale", "hip hop beats" or "buy exclusive beats".
FlashBeyond.com A new project for free and commercial Flash scripts, components, tutorials...
All those were free for taking and purchased relatively recently (except the web firm ones), and I've found hundreds of other good names in the process which are still free, but I won't list here for obvious reason of someone quickly "parking" them.
To recap: don't let the squatters make you believe there is NO good domain left free on the web, because they neither have the resource or money to keep up with the imagination of the entire world.
ya I don't get the whole waiting period either on the domains when they expire. I think it should expire throughout the system within at least 48 hours... if you were slacking too bad so sad! (as I currently wait to grab a domain that expired 1 month ago...)
So, at $42.2222 per troy ounce, and 14.5833333 troy ounces in 1 pound, if these sites are really "worth their weight in gold", then on.com weighs ~1/2 ton while jasmin.com weighs only ~1/4 ton. Makes sense, of course, given the starvation diets most of those girls are probably on ...
... I'm tired. Just laugh at attempted joke ....
Please don't crucify me if my math is off
10b||~10b -- aah, what a question!
Of course, if you goto http://officelive.microsoft.com/ and try to sign up for a web site using something else than IE you get this msg
You are not using a recent version of Internet Explorer and need to download it in order to use Office Live.
On Technology, made the Meeting Maker calendaring application. Massively crossplatform (even had DOS, OS2 and Windows 3.0 clients!) They spun it off, good product. Guess the rest of the company doesn't need the domain, hope my 401k is fine!
I just loved that domain as an email address...
Paul
Here's a few of the names I registered and never made a cent on:
BudgetDSL.com
BudgetDSL.net
Artoo-Detoo.com
See-Threepio.com
InstantOnPC.com
NoBootPC.com
EarnPage.com (wow that's dumb!)
DSLCheap.com
DSLCheap.net
MartianSprings.com
19x.net (I let it lapse, but I'm thinking I should have kept it... even for email, a 3-letter domain is cool.)
PeeRat.com !!! (yes!!! Pee Rat! Actually I was thinking Peer At. Shows what registering names at 4 am can cost you.)
I regged a bunch more, some of them probably ok (something with fix.com in it... I forget... hmmm.) I regged at least 50 over the years, and only one has turned out to have any value.
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Borrowing some figures from another post, I get a value of $1357.15 per kilo.
The mass of a single electron is 9.1x10^-31. Putting these two values together gives a value of $1.23x10^-27 per electron. Not something you want to plan your retirement around.
Of course I feel I must point out that this neglects binding energy and such, but hey, it's late, I already feel like enough of a nerd for working this much out.
There is a piece of old lore that sales of cardboard boxes is one way to see if there is an upcoming business recovery or expansion...because when businesses start preparing to ship more things, they need lots of cardboard boxes to do it with.
This may or may not be true, but, we could still look at an upswing in domain names as a type of "cardboard box effect", it may mean that e-Commerce is picking up again.
Or it might mean nothing at all!
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
If on.com went for $635,000 I wonder what off.com went for? Wish we could stick to numbers. Ahhh.. member the days of compuserve email address's of numbers? I think mine was 174211.7411, or something like that. I have it sitting in a drawer somewhere. Sigh... capitalism at it's worst. It's all in the name, race, right place-right time... yadaa yaddaaa dang!
-- "I have something stupid and ridiculous to tell you." Alfred de Musset, 1833
So, let's say we get a group together some weekend, buy some beer, and reinvent DNS in a way that obliterates the value of all these registrations.
... oh, yeah. Nevermind.
Then we'd just need to get Firefox, and of course IE to
Okay. New rule
No.... No new rules. We have enough, thanks.
People who have no idea HOW SOMETHING WORKS, are no longer allowed to use Slashdot as an outlet for their ignorant ranting.
You do have an ID in the mid 600000 range, so you have not been around here long, have you? Slashdot is one of the biggest rantspaces on the Internet. That said, I understand exactly how the process works as explained below.
Those domains displaying domain parking pages are OWNED. That means someone exchanged goods, services, or currency for property. The property was the registration of the domain name. Still with me?
OK, that is perfectly understandable. Do you have any idea of how these companies "OWN" these domain names? Of course you do as you are trying to use/justify this same model to make money for yourself. For others here that may not know, they buy them up in bulk and find any and all possible relevant combinations of names in the hopes that someone will find a need for that name and then exchange again, more money to buy that domain name at a later date. Simple parasitic business with no real contribution to anything other than lining their own pockets.
1. After registering a domain, your nameservers typically default to some that the registrar provides.
Yes, and that drives more revenue to the domain name registrar who can then run statistics on how much traffic that name gets which then allows them to "valuate" that domain name for cost increases for ownership.
2. These at-the-moment "unused" domains, which number in the millions, get between a little and a LOT of traffic that would otherwise go nowhere.
See above explanation to 1.
3. An enterprising registrar sees this as an opportunity for offsetting costs, and profit (see: capitalism).
Yes, yes.... capitalism. I'm all for it, but hopefully that capitalism actually does something that contributes to society.
1. Someone registers a domain, and puts a program like the aforementioned on it to drive revenue - either while developing a site for it, or they simply are doing so well with it that it is "maximized". (Lingerei.com is an example)
Or.... statistically more likely and factually born out by the evidence, they simply sit on the domain and let it lie fallow until someone comes along that wants to buy it.
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It's clearly not a free market, because there's a monopoly on control of the root servers. The monopoly prevents additional top level domains from being created, and ensures that any which are created follow the same speculation-encouraging rules as .com.
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Thanks for the link, man. I've got some I can share too.
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I had brainstormed for an URL for my news site for HOURS. Everything containing the word "news" is taken and filled with "parking pages" or ads.
In the end I got http://newsminator.com/ and thought it's obvious it comes from Terminator. When I showed the site to my friends they said things like "WTF!!! What kind of stupid name is this?" and none of them made the connection with the glorious character played by Arnold.
So, I guess too much imagination when choosing your domain name CAN be a bad thing.
Blue.eu, Macau.eu, Jasmin.eu still available after this post. Wow. So right now I can buy those domain in .eu (which is still very inexpensive) and in few years I can get at least 1/10 of that.
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Then we had click-through, and advertisers paid for "clicks". Now we have "click glut", very few clicks lead to a sale, and the bottom is falling out of "clicks".
What we're going to end up with is something where advertisers only pay for actual sales. This creates accounting problems, but Yahoo Store and parts of the porno industry already have it working.
The main thing keeping the click trade going is Google. When the day comes that Google stops paying affiliates for clicks, others will follow and the domain spam industry will fall apart. This will probably happen right after Google gets a payment system in place.
Just recently, I learned *far* more than I ever wanted to about attempting to claim a domain after a previous owner lets it expire. It's amazing what a racket that whole thing has become!
One of my clients paid a consultant to set up a web site and some email hosting for his daycare centers a couple years ago. Well, recently, that consultant ran into some personal problems (divorce, etc.) and became very difficult to reach/unresponsive. So finally, the daycare owner decided what he needed to do was redirect the registered domain to a new location, build a new site, and have it hosted elsewhere.
Problem was, the consultant registered it under his info, and we had no real way to obtain the password to make the changes needed.
Luckily, I noticed the domain was just about to expire, so I decided to keep an eye on it and planned to buy it upon its expiration. Now, the *traditional* rules say domains are back "up for grabs" after about a 30 day grace period, after expiration. But nowdays, it seems most registrars don't play fair. Instead, many just transfer the domains to their name, and sit on them indefinitely - charging an inflated price to re-purchase them. (I guess the line of thought is, if a name was good enough for someone to pay to register it once, then it's got an above-average chance of having some value to someone else - or even to the same person if they just let the renewal slide....)
In other cases, the expired domains automatically get put up for auctions to the highest bidder. (Some registrars like GoDaddy let you bypass this step by paying a $25 or so fee while the domain you want is still in their "grace period", but of course, that still means you're paying about 5x as much as you would have if it was some random name that was never registered before - AND, you're forced to become a captive GoDaddy customer in order to get it.)
The ones in auction can *really* turn into a money-grab, because companies have been formed to do nothing but automatically bid and re-bid on your behalf, for a stiff up-front fee, promising they'll guarantee to get you the domain you want. (Basically, if you're a normal human following manual bidding procedures, you're absolutely going to lose to their mechanized system.) You're fine if you're the only one bidding on the name you want -- but if it's a reasonably attractive/popular name, it can escalate into a very expensive bidding war involving 3rd. party services really quickly.
http://www.commroot.com With a little effort this set of domain names could be generating some significant revenue.
"To err is human, to mod Funny divine."
What does the slashdot crowd think about the growth of other TLDs? I think del.icio.us, scriptaculous, and other clever uses of country code domains and things are "built-in" branding, and often just as memorable or more than .com.
This might take a while for grandma to understand, and is not as easy to speak, but it obviously has semantic meaning. I worked for days to come up with a .com name, after going through dozens. Choosing a name of a business is difficult enough....
Yeah use unicode, then you can guarantee no hits...you'll save big on bandwidth costs.
.com will boost traffic to the squatter and make their activities more profitable off your work.
Adding a hyphen or getting a non
Question: Do you actually own the domain name Microsoft registers "for" you? Microsoft says you can transfer in a domain if you so choose, but funny enough, they mention nothing about letting you transfer the free domain out if you are unsatisfied with their services.
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
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No, what he's showing disdain for is people who profit at the unwilling expense of others, through no effort or cleverness of their own. And i'm sorry but i think there are probably a good number of people who agree with him (myself included)
Besides, using "yeah well they did it first" doesn't mean that it's right, or that other things should be modeled in the same fashion, even if one was to accept that land development is a suitable analogy to domain squatting.
There are lives at stake here!
Why can't .com administrators apply the same rules instead of going for a money grab
.com is for those who want to make money. .com do anything else?
ROTFL. I don't think you understand the significance of your own question:
Why should the administrators of
for an offer on MyNakedAss.com...
It's just Crap.
So being a "timeless trade" makes it okay. Like armed robbery, white slavery, "protection", etc. And the term "development" is misleading. A parked site is not developed like land; land is usually developed by providing access and services. Nothing in a parked domain is useful except the name itself. Youi'll notice hte other "timelsss trades" I mentioned are illegal. Though domain speculation shouldn't itself be illegal, it should certainly not be encouraged.
I mean seriously, I constantly have customers coming in fretting about domain names. One chap sits at the visitor PC and spends hours (literally) trying different iterations of common words, and combinations. This is just silly. I tell them to relax, the name really isn't important. Content is king on the internet, the name doesn't matter a damn.
Lets take our favourite website, slashdot. What exactly does that have to do with technology or news? Nothing, and yet its one of the most successful sites out there. Google is a verb, for gods sake, and its domain name has exactly zero to do with searching. If these guys had their way, it would have been called simplysearch.com or something. One of our most successful websites LIreland the domain name doesn't mention anything to do with driving or driving schools.
This domain name hunting fad will be consigned to the murky annals of bankruptcy before too long, as more and more useful, content rich sites gain a reputation and a following. Meanwhile, trust me, the name doesn't matter a damn.
What he can't kill, he has sex on. Trent.
Does it seem like Books.by.net and Music.by.net or adult-oriented content addresses like Porn.by.net would be valuable?
.com names are worth considerably more than .net. But consider a marketing campaign for a company that is selling cars online, by web or by net so to speak. A TV ad could say, "Shop for a new car at Cars by net," while showing "Cars.by.net" on the screen.
It is generally the case that
Sure, "Cars dot com" works as well or better, but that one's taken, and so is almost every other "Product dot com" domain. So the question is, would "Cars.on.com" be better than "Cars.by.net"?
Which is the more valuable domain space?
I'm asking sincerely, even though I have a self-interested motivation in doing so. I've literally been told by some appraisers that By.net should be worth 10-25% of what By.com would be, and it just doesn't make any sense at all.
Peace and love, y'all
I thought that this was called Cybersquatting and was not allowed? It really is annoying, especially with .eu when suddenly everything you could ever wish to register has been "stolen" and companies are charging extortionarte fees to let you have them. This really must be just wrong?
So what happened to the cybersquatting rules whereby you could challenge a domain registration?
First domain - 5 dollars
Second domain - 20 dollars
Third domain - 50 dollars
Fourth domain - 100 dollars
Subsequent domains - 1,000 dollars
Sure, you have the problem of people registering things under other people's names, but that can be solved.
Essentially, your e-mail and personal identity domain should be basically free, your first and second hobby domains should be reasonably priced, your third and fourth domains should have a lot of motivating factor behind them, and if you need 5 or more domains you're probably a very large company with a lot of people working for you.
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I'm working from memory so I may have some of the details wrong:
There was an article in Make magazine a few months ago about domain names (I believe it was written by Tim O'Reilly). Basically, it said (paraphrased), "If we were registering a domain name for this magazine a few years ago, we would have needed to get make.com to get any visitors. However, given the ubiquity of search engines now, makezine.com is fine . . . people will still find us with no problem."
So, um, what I'm saying is, domain names aren't as important as people think they are.
http://www.itunes.dj/ Itunes.DJ anyone?
The extra points also apply to this quote
I want a Firefox plugin that blacklists parking domains the way Adblock blacklists ads. So that if I try to go to one of those pages it just warns me that it's a parked ad trap and allows me to choose not to go. Better yet, let the search engines screen the blacklisted sites out for you.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
I had 5 .eu pre-registers. Every single one was taken before me by linkfarms, 9/10ths of the .eu addresses I've tried to register have been taken by linkfarms most of which seem to belong to some firm called blix. They shouldn't allow one firm to register thousands of domains.
This may be a bit naive of me, but as more people turn to search for finding things more, are't a lot of these domains going to go down in value? I barely ever type a domain anymore. I'll reflexively google the name, then click it when the website comes up.
Does anyone else find the title " Domain Names Worth Their Weight in Gold Again" ironic and amusing, or is it just me?
I mean, seeing as domain names have no weight, what with being intangiable and all....
Interesting if off-topic little tidbit: MIT apparently owns 1/256th of all IP addresses. I.E. everything under a certain number out of the first set of numbers is allocated to them. When you think about it, that's a gigantic amount of space to be owned by one entity like that.
I'm looking to sell a bunch of domains together (highlytuned.com / highlytuned.net / highlytuned.co.uk / highly-tuned.com / highly-tuned.net / highly-tuned.co.uk) but all brokers I've seen want them listed separately. Any recommendations?
The page behind Jasmine [dot] com also tries to install flash malware.
There are javascript pop-up's hidden hundreds of characters off to the right, which appear to be click-through ads.
The link techinterviews [dot] com behind the poster prostoalex is another link farm.
/me smells a rat.
If it's determined by length, I'm registering supercalafragalisticexpialidocius.com straight away!
If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... Checkmate.
For a real idea of what domains are coming up for sale or if you wish to sell one, go to AfterNic.com.
'Nuff said.
GOB IS NOT ON BOARD! the no scar reference is to the (2nd to last) episode when they had a saddam lookalike on trial in iraq. Probably closer to the truth than anyone can imagine. Truly great show and i miss it alot.
They don't weigh anything..
'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' II Corinthians 5:7
Are surely much more valuable domain names than amazon.com, google.com, and ebay.com? The thing no one has explained to me yet is are these idiots making money squatting on all these domains? Or is this like all those "work from home" things, where none of them really make any money, but the meme of the multi-level marketing thing is infectious and spreads prolifically? Same question could be asked about spammers, how many of them make any real profit, and how many more are either spamming at a loss or at a rate less than they could make the kwikky mart per hour? Seems to me if these things are all as usually un-profitable as I imagine we could educate away at least some of the annoyance caused by spam and domain spam etc.
The name does have something to do with the content.
/. = inverted ./ = path to the current directory in unix.
Slashdot =
I think that matches "News for nerds" quite well.
Domain names are important because search engines seems to value the occurency of the searched word inside the domain quite high.
Other off topic things I don't like about googles search result are that a search for "product-name review" often results in lots of pages which has the word "consumer review" or similair inside them, even thought there are no review and never a large and good one. When I search for something like that I want to have more on my bones then "I've bought it for $30 and I like it".
Check out this "definition" of cybersquatting from LinkUWant.com, a link farm who is holding the URL of the name of my company.p
http://www.linkuwant.com/website/cybersquatter.ph
"This term is used by envious corporate world executives and attorneys."
Feel free to slashdot them.
http://www.CelloFourteGroupie.net
Ah, wonderful. Maybe I can look forward to another batch of emails offering to sell me "roadflares.com", since I own the .org.
.org. Am I the only person following the guidelines on this sort of thing?
Attention asshats -- I'm not a commercial entity. That's why I registered the
--saint
Who will give me $5000.00 for www.pirate-ninja-zombie.com ????? Come on....I need the money for college :o)
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Domain speculators serve tremendous numbers of ads. 99% of google's revenue is ad-based. QED.
For what it's worth, just think it over. These people own sometimes upwards of 20k domains. We always say "there's no way they could sell a tenth of a percent of their $5k domains." Okay, so what if that's true? Buying domains in bulk they're like fifty cents each; if we assume a turnover of one tenth of one percent, and a return of $5k each, then they've made $100k off of a $10k investment.
Yes, they're making money, or they wouldn't still be doing it. These guys buy domains as quickly as they can think them up.
StoneCypher is Full of BS
So now a domain name worth having costs thousands of bucks. Of course, you can renew for only $10/year...
Ain't the free market great?
If this is true I should start seeing those six figures offers I could have gotten for microwave.com in 2001 start coming in soon now.
Your ignorance has shown through your post.
First off, it would more than likely be a trademark infringment instead of a copyright infringment.
To obtain copyright, you must express anything with a minimal degree of creativity in a tangiable form. To obtain a trademark, you must simply use a logo, slogan, etc in commerce. Registering these two with the appropriate US gov offices provide extra protection, but is not absolutely needed.
Secondly, why do we need legislation? Who would enact it, US Congress? How could it be enforced outside of the US? It can't. Legislation isn't really a good idea in this instance (it rarely is). Instead let the free market and the courts decide on the best course of action. They are closer to the situation anyway. Besides, legislation usually causes more problems than it solves.
Libertas in infinitum
It really seems your knocking Go-Daddy for no reason...
I've never had a problem with go-daddy not giving me my domains I request, unless it WAS already taken. And the ones I have, a few do have "Parked" pages, until I get my sites up. I don't understand your problem with this? If I wanted, I could put FOR-SALE pages, but thats not my intentions. besides, Go-Daddy could just be the register for the name, and the site hosted elsewhere... Some folks need time to figure it out, etc...
So in short... I'm saying don't knock a site unless you've tried them... Then give specific complaints, not BROAD sweeping complaints that have no basis.
--- Relax, that mass muderer is just trying to reduce our carbon footprint, one fetus at a time...
As I've written before, domain names aren't property, & we should stop treating them as such. It should not be possible to sell a domain name. Your only options should be to keep it or release it. Someone taking money to release a domain should be charged with bribery.
(I'm all for the registrars continuing to charge, as long as they are just being a registrar & not playing the squatting game.)
I'm generally very libertarian & capitalist, but treating domain names as a commodity is just insanity.
>> I haven't bothered to go an do the research to work out what the difference in the number of electrons is when the atom is positively or negatively charged.
>I don't need any fancy intarwebs to know that its less or more, in that order.
No shit Sherlock. I could have told you that much. What I said, was that I didn't know by how much the number of electrons differed. I expect that it's only 1, either way, but it could be more, because of the multiple energy orbits.
I am not an authority on this, so I didn't want to express wild guesses and speculation, which people may fail to indentify, and use my ramblings as an authoratative source.
>> I also leave it to you to work out the atomic weight of a gram of gold
>No nuch thing as the atomic weight of an amount of a substance.
Fair enough, perhaps I got my terminology confused. I'm not a physicist, I'm a computer programmer, working for a geological survey group. That's why I chose to leave working out the result to someone who knows more about these things, rather than making wild guesses about things I don't know much about.
What I was trying to get across there, was working out the atomic density of a gram of gold, then multiplying the average number of electrons (because it will differ depending on atomic polarity) by the density.
Perhaps that's not possible, I don't know. I didn't, and don't, claim to know.
I also take it that you meant "such", by "nuch", but I am not having a go at you for choosing not to use the preview function, or a spell checker.
>> keep in mind, that once the electron leaves the gold atom, it's not a gold electron anymore
>Yes it is. That's why it has intrinsic value and speaker wire costing 900 bucks a foot sounds better.
I take this is as a pathetic attempt at humour. I am not laughing. I am also not taking it upon myself to abuse or verbally assualt you for it, but civilly, I request that you try a bit harder next time.
>You don't know what you're talking about. Now shut the fuck up.
I didn't claim, at any time, to know what I was talking about.
I summarised a web page, which I referenced, and I avoided any guessing, or speculating, restraining myself to pointing out a general principle that I was getting at, and leaving specifics out of it.
Perhaps you should have read my post a couple of times, before you replied to it.
I don't know what gives you the right to tell me to "shut the fuck up". I didn't force you to read my post, and while I'm not in the US, I do support your "right to free speech", and while my country does not have a specific right to free speech, it does not lack one, or have a right limiting free speech.
Please try to compromise a bit more in future, and understand people from different countries/cultures.
(unless you are a troll, and this response from me was your intention, in which case, you can kiss my arse).
Any spelling errors in this post, are because it's 2.36am, and I've had a few alcoholic beverages in the last few hours.