05-15-2008, 11:05 AM | #1 |
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Earn millions with your .com (no this is not an advert)
A 43-year-old man from Maryland has sold the domain name pizza.com for almost 10,000 times the price he paid for it. Chris Clark registered the name pizza.com in 1994 for just $20, and continued to pay the annual registration fee until January of this year, when he heard the domain name vodka.com had gone for a massive $3 million, and decided he wanted a slice of the pie.
A little whatis and howto: http://www.igoldrush.com/investment.htm The first domain names investor bank: http://www.goldnames.com/ Interesting... |
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05-15-2008, 11:06 AM | #2 |
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Yeah, but domain squatting...?
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05-15-2008, 11:37 AM | #3 | |
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05-15-2008, 12:18 PM | #4 |
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It's still cybersquatting, in a way.
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05-15-2008, 12:19 PM | #5 |
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Is that in the same domain as "2 girls"?
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05-15-2008, 12:37 PM | #6 |
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Me and my friend wanted to do this with a bunch of domains when we first heard of the internet. Unfortunately neither of us could figure out how to buy domains without a credit card. We would be millionaires by now!
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05-15-2008, 02:42 PM | #7 | |
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05-16-2008, 05:22 AM | #8 |
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I wonder if horseporn.net will ever be worth millions.
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05-16-2008, 05:30 AM | #9 |
Who the fuck is this guy?
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http://www.stylinstalin.com will be worth billions.
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05-16-2008, 06:03 AM | #10 |
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Not really cybersquatting. First of all this is 1994, not 2004. Second, it's not like it's pizzahut.com. It's pizza.com, which is generic.
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05-16-2008, 08:25 PM | #11 | |
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05-16-2008, 08:34 PM | #12 | |
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Hell, they probably do. People are dumb. I say it's still squatting if you don't have a site there. If you register someone's brand name I'd call that trademark infringement. |
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05-16-2008, 08:48 PM | #13 |
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I ran across a cybersquatter years ago that tried to "sell" me a domain name for a business name we'd been operating under for years. I discovered that it had been already registered when I decided to pursue the domain name. Initially they'd tried to BS and stymie but ultimately transferred the domain to me when it was clear that they hadn't a leg to stand on. That was an actual trade/business name so it was clear.
Honestly, I can't see where cybersquatting would apply to a generic term like pizza. That guy just got lucky.
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05-16-2008, 09:13 PM | #14 | |
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05-17-2008, 03:04 AM | #16 |
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It's just a JPEG.
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05-17-2008, 03:19 AM | #17 |
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Another sad example of Internet PTSD...
I wonder if he see two girls at the mall and one has a cup he starts to gag?
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05-17-2008, 03:20 AM | #18 |
Who the fuck is this guy?
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You could have looked at the source code.
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05-19-2008, 12:32 AM | #20 |
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But apparently you remember it's 1 minute and 11 seconds.
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