At 10:32 AM 5/3/2002 -0700, you wrote: Regarding the value of a name, there most certainly is a high value on certain domain names. When you spend the resources on marketing a web site/domain name for several months and spend development dollars building applications and services that correspond to the web site, you have converted a mere "arbitrary string of characters" to a valuable asset.
Yes, but it's the marketing and establishment of business around it that does so, not the "quality" of the name.
