With close to 100 million domain names registered world wide and this figure rapidly rising its a wander how there are any useful names left for grabs. An Internet Domain is basically what identifies a website to the internet and if you are registering a name for the 1st time it is relatively cheap but did you know that a while back Tuvalu negotiated a contract leasing its Internet domain name “.tv” for $50 million in royalties over a 12-year period. (yep… 50 big ones!!). Likewise with the wp.com domain recently…
Blog Herald: What Automattic Should Do With WP.com
I’m happy to see that Automattic has been able to acquire WP.com, from Yahoo incidentally, who also sold the blo.gs domain to the creators of WordPress and Akismet not so long ago. Matt is thrilled, and rumor has it* that he spent a full day just typing in wp.com and watching it resolve to wordpress.com (*not confirmed).
Naturally, he blogged it as well, on the WordPress.com blog, asking the world what they should do with the new domain, and urging people to make suggestions in the comments…
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When it comes to people that register Domain Names – IMHO there are basically four types of folks out there:
1) People that have never and will never waste their hard earned cash on the purchase of a Domain name.
2) People that have registered between one and several dozen names.
3) The obsessed (or perhaps folks with good business nous) that have between several dozen and thousands of Domains registered in their name.
4) And finally those people that are thinking about purchasing a name and will soon join the ranks of ’2′ or ’3′.
So where do you sit – are you a ’1′, ’2′, ’3′ or ’4′???
In the obsessed category. Though I’m loosing my religion on the domain thang. Too many good names are registered doing little much other than keeping the registrars in pennies. Like having a garage full of nice cars. Clearly not providing much benefit to the wider world.
Seb,
When you say “obsessed”…
How many names are we talking about?
R