Brent Eades wrote:
> 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
[snip]
> 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.
I ran into them when I wanted lorenzen.com and found they had it.
Waited two years to see if they gave it up when no one signed up, but
they still hold it.
I wanted it for family purposes too -- but not for $24.95 set-up plus $5
a month per family member. For that kind of investment, I could have
bought a machine and net connection to run the whole domain on for just
a dozen or so family members. (The money is there Brent - a single
subscriber to any domain pays at least $60 a year for the service . . .
if half of that is tech and staff, that's still a domain in profit for
any registered user. If they have even two or three popular domain
names out of it that get a few thousand people each, they break even,
which I would hope even a monkey could achieve randomly picking 12K
words ;) .)
Turns out the silly people didn't buy lorenzen.net, though ;) Email
addresses and home pages in everyone's christmas stocking this year
*chuckle*
B
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