Article on CNN today (Domaining)

[rmacdon]

This article is pretty good have a read.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050989/index.htm?cnn=yes

 

[Gramma]

THanks for the heads up!
very interesting....

 

[VioxxLawyers]

Nice article. Thanks.

 

[DomainLobe]

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Rockefeller]

Great read! Thanks!

 

[simon]

urn it without cost after a free trial, on occasion grabbing hundreds of thousands of names in one swoop.

He was one of the first to take advantage of a loophole that allows people to register a name and ret



And what few people know is that he's also the man behind the domain world's latest scheme: profiting from traffic generated by the millions of people who mistakenly type ".cm" instead of ".com" at the end of a domain name.

thats another way of typo squatting. At least this guy accepts it publicly

 

[Makis77]

ever tried to register on cameroon tld???

just try and see the reg fee

 

[Gerry]

Damn fine article. MUST READ for newbies and all the "know it all's".

 

[AlienGG]

So Kevin runs HitFarm.
How many of you are going to move to Vancouver? If not mistaken, I think Yun Ye was from there too.

 

[bdss]

great article..thanks for sharing

 

[tonyfloyd]

So Kevin runs HitFarm.
How many of you are going to move to Vancouver? If not mistaken, I think Yun Ye was from there too.

Yeah....Vancouver seems like the place to be......wanna make it big??....Move to Vancouver!!...lol...

 

[groundctrl]

frank schilling is from British Columbia as well, i think.

 

[cursal]

Favorite line

"If you control all the domains," he says, "then you control the Internet."

Great read, thanks for sharing.

 

[PeterMan]

Every time I read articles like this I feel like giving myself a good swift kick in the A$$... I could have been one of those guys!!! *sigh*

 

[Rockefeller]

Vancouver and Australia seem to be where the best domainers live.

 

[companyone]

I think Frank S. is in the Cayman Islands.

Peace,
dan

 

[whitebark]

So Kevin runs HitFarm.
How many of you are going to move to Vancouver? If not mistaken, I think Yun Ye was from there too.

No need to move - already there!

 

[hugegrowth]

I used to live there! Does that count? All that domaining was going on right in my own backyard...

 

[JuniperPark]

I used to live there! Does that count? All that domaining was going on right in my own backyard...

Don't feel bad -- I used to have a 'real job' in Carlsbad Ca, occasionally buying domains on my break at work, and I kept noticing a red ferarri with a tag something about "WS".

After working there several years, the day I moved on I learned that the .WS headquarters was LESS THAN 1/2 BLOCK AWAY the whole time, in an office/industrial complex I simply had never gone into.

Luckily I never bought any .ws domains, but it still was an odd geographical coincidence.

 

[gmac17]

Every time I read articles like this I feel like giving myself a good swift kick in the A$$... I could have been one of those guys!!! *sigh*

there are a lot of us in that boat. What really kills me is that I knew about domains early on - bought 50+ one night in 1997 and started from there - but.... didn't buy the right ones. Then even in 2003 when I first reg'd here I was kicking myself about 1997 instead of buying great drops...

(50 people reading this post nodding their head in agreement...5 or 6 reading this post counting piles of cash on their countertops...)