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From: "Chris Beach"
Newsgroups: alt.domain-names.wanted
References: <90aa7923.0307042300.26012d64@posting.google.com> <90aa7923.0307051058.74cb715e@posting.google.com>
Subject: Re: Domain name speculators
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 19:30:38 +0800
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"Simon Sheppard" wrote in message
news:be9uvf$lps$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
>
> The way I read it, there was a big lull (probably several) as people
watched
> to see what would happen. First the dictionary .coms went, but I suppose
it
> seemed inconceivable that so many could be taken. Everyone no doubt has
> tales of the fantastic .coms they could have got early on, or the one they
> missed by a few hours, I certainly have. That's one of the reasons that
> things are so ruthless now, that they feel they "missed their chance."
It was a snowball effect, certainly hastened by the media reports around
1998-99 of the internet "gold-rush". The increasing lack of domains was
self-perpetuating, as people realized that they might become scarce, and
scarcity = money.
From my own perspective, in 1993 I was tempted to register Beach.com as a
joke, but there seemed little point - what use was it? I'm sure Gary Kremen
registered sex.com for a laugh (considering that at that time, the 'visual'
internet was in it's infancy).
> Also people do behind an anonymous computer screen what they would not do
> in their own town, for fear of what people would think.
Real estate is a competitive business, both on and off-line. A domain is a
vacant block of land, until you build a website on it. You don't have a
right to take (or even dispute) vacant land owned by someone else, just
because they had the presence of mind to buy it when it was cheap.
> Do you think that offering $250 for a three-letter .com is an effective
way
> of upsetting a domain speculator?!
Not if it's ZQX.COM.
> The .ws domains are like uk.coms I think. The co. that registered uk.com
> sells addresses mydomain.uk.com and doesn't tell you it's actually a
> subdomain. A .ws domain is Western Samoa (where Margaret Mead was sold a
> pony) dressed as "website."
One of the biggest scams of the last decade.
> <90aa7923.0307051058.74cb715e@posting.google.com>...
> >Also, when did the DN speculation biz get it's legs? Is this a recent
> >phenomenom or has it been around since .com's inception?
It really took off in about 97. For interests' sake, the first 100 .com's
registered were over a period of almost 3 years:
03/15/1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
04/24/1985 BBN.COM
05/24/1985 THINK.COM
07/11/1985 MCC.COM
09/30/1985 DEC.COM
11/07/1985 NORTHROP.COM
01/09/1986 XEROX.COM
01/17/1986 SRI.COM
03/03/1986 HP.COM
03/05/1986 BELLCORE.COM
03/19/1986 IBM.COM
03/19/1986 SUN.COM
03/25/1986 INTEL.COM
03/25/1986 TI.COM
04/25/1986 ATT.COM
05/08/1986 GMR.COM
05/08/1986 TEK.COM
07/10/1986 FMC.COM
07/10/1986 UB.COM
08/05/1986 BELL-ATL.COM
08/05/1986 GE.COM
08/05/1986 GREBYN.COM
08/05/1986 ISC.COM
08/05/1986 NSC.COM
08/05/1986 STARGATE.COM
09/02/1986 BOEING.COM
09/18/1986 ITCORP.COM
09/29/1986 SIEMENS.COM
10/18/1986 PYRAMID.COM
10/27/1986 ALPHACDC.COM
10/27/1986 BDM.COM
10/27/1986 FLUKE.COM
10/27/1986 INMET.COM
10/27/1986 KESMAI.COM
10/27/1986 MENTOR.COM
10/27/1986 NEC.COM
10/27/1986 RAY.COM
10/27/1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM
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