Regarding the $5,000 domain that NSI accidentally let expire: After a domain expires it is still in NSI's database and cannot be registered by another party except the owner...I have known a domain to exist like this for up to 6 months...how did this one get deleted so soon???
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'George Kirikos'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 3:13 PM Subject: RE: Verisign Screw-up > 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. > >
