On 1 Aug 98, Tamra R. Heathershaw-Hart wrote:
> so if you figure most folks won't bother to find out that it was really
> "altavista.digital.com" that they wanted, these guys could be paying what
> they see as a reasonable fee to get more traffic. It's that Portal game,
> ya know.
Mm... considering the kind of money some of the big engines are making,
at least on paper anyway, $3 million ain't much of an investment if your
priority is to increase hits and click-throughs. For instance, I saw lately
that the two young lads who founded Yahoo -- a good but not great front
end to the Web -- are worth $50 million a piece now, through stock and
whatnot. Yow.
Speaking of "domain parking" and similar adventures in name ownership, I
stumbled across something rather interesting in that regard lately. I had
given thought to registering my last name as a domain, for my family and
me to use for personal e-mail and Web stuff; typed in 'www.eades.com' as
a first step, and was delivered to a commercial site informing me that
"eades.com is a shared domain".
Turns out that an outfit in Vancouver has snapped up about 12,000
domain names covering both surnames and common words, and offers
modestly priced "identity plans" for people wanting to use those names.
The example they gave for eades.com was:
Your Name: James Eades
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website: James.Eades.com, www.James.Eades.com
(My brother's name, coincidentally, being James Eades.) For this they
charge a one-time $29.95 set-up, and $4.95 a year thereafter. Random
examples of other names they hold are ScubaDivers.net, alligators.com,
GolfFan.com, HamRadios.com, and so on.
Personally, I don't see anything wrong with this, not at those kinds of
prices; rather the opposite, I don't see how they can really make any
money at it, not with domain registration fees at $35 a year. Unless some
far-thinking soul snapped all these up back before there was any fee for
registering with Internic... dunno.
As the site points out, it's a nice solution for families, clubs, hobbyists etc
who want a distinctive net identity: for five bucks a year a philatelist
could become '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', for instance.
Anyway, thought it was interesting.
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Brent Eades, Almonte, Ontario
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Town of Almonte site: http://www.almonte.com/
Business site: http://www.federalweb.com
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