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The Death of Domain Parking?
An anonymous reader found an article about the former CEO of MySpace moving into the domain parking biz. He says "I thought, it can't be that easy. So I talked to some domainers, and they said, 'We own 300,000 domains, we make $20 million a year, we have just four employees and some servers in the Caymans.'" The idea behind the business doesn't really seem any better to me than just having a parked name with a banner ad. At least, not for the internet as a whole.
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Actually, it looks like the owner of Penisland.com knows exactly what his domain name looks like :)
PenIsland.net is what you were thinking of.
I've now found a great metaphor for all this "Web 2.0" nonsense: urine.
Web 2.0 is people pissing on the Internet!
Insisting on "correct" English is like saying that there is only one, definitive recipe for chili.
You know, something putting things in bold is a visually pleasing way of drawing more attention to topic sentences so people can skim instead of reading the whole article. But when you do it too much it just look like crap.
The change is going to be that the Internet is going to finally resemble a Möbius loop, where once you click on one content link and keep clicking, you will eventually wind up back where you started. People will be trapped in infinite loops of marketing and commerce will collapse because no one will actually be able to buy anything, because they can't break out of the loop.
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I've 'parked' the following domains for some time. Call it cyber squatting or whatever, but when a company comes along with these names, i'll be laughing all the way to the bank!!
.biz, .info, .org etc too. so don't think you can steal my idea!
www.XFmq1yw1pC3.com
www.QtEQpK1jGnm.com
www.BqLJJNJq6vL.com
www.bbyja3OWEVW.com
www.iQ7aE0YSTl8.com
www.tV56pze3idd.com
and i've got all the
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What matters is does it work? Will it really mighty my penis?
We clearly need to work harder on our new users.
Everything in moderation, including moderation itself
I know how to use the net. Heck, I was surfing with Lynx just last night. Anyway, I have largely stopped typing the name directly to url bar because every now and then, I make a typo. The search box is right up there by the url bar on all gui browsers anyway.
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Hahahahahaaaa. I run into that type of person quite frequently too. The young, ditzy, personal assistants often seem to fall into that category. "I went to the link you told me to go to and it isn't working. You know, www.mail....." , "No, LISTEN you stupid bitch! There is no fucking WWW." .... Sorry, had a flashback there.
Like a plugin that checks the netblock of the result of a DNS lookup on a URL... if it's in a range of known parking sites or phising sites, it'd throw up an appropriate error/blocked page.
That'd be a neat extension to have.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
That, and the do NOT understand .edu
.com after the .edu and then complain that the site sucks, there is always an error.
At least our students don't (support for a distance learning college better left nameless). You tell them it's www.[nameless].edu and they seem to 60% of the time insist on adding a
Oh, well.
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." - Every fascist, ever
I doubt that will happen as long as we (those of us who have to deal with users every day) need to refer users to KB articles like this one: http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FA Q2859
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No. Them being a pinhead who can't follow simple instructions automatically makes them a stupid bitch.
Yeah, I realized it as soon as I posted. They really should take away the submit button and force me to preview.
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