The Man Squatting On Millions of Dollars Worth of Domain Names

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 7, 2015 @08:38AM from the your-name-here dept.

Jason Koebler writes For the last 21 years, Gary Millin and his colleagues at World Accelerator have been slowly accumulating a veritable treasure trove of seemingly premium generic domain names. For instance, Millin owns, has sold, or has bartered away world.com, usa.com, doctor.com, lawyer.com, comic.com, email.com, cyberservices.com, and more than 1,000 other domain names that can be yours (including yours.com, which he owns), as long as you've got the startup idea to back it up. Millin doesn't sell domain names anymore, instead, he trades them to startups in exchange for a stake in the company.

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Re:New TLDs will hopefully end this practice by shadowrat · 2015-02-07 10:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Also, the days of naming your company after something are long gone. People just apply random stuff like Uber to their company. The next big startups are going to be named stuff like "Zoosit", and "Mixlebin".

oh gosh! mixlebin.com is still available. i better get it!