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The Map is not the Territory
Can a domain name be the difference between success and failure in a business? Are domain names the single best investment one can possibly make in one’s business? These are the main questions debated in an ongoing chain of posts, then my comments, and a follow-up post, and another of my comments and yet another post between myself and Andrei over at DomainingTips.
The conventional wisdom among domainers is that without the domain name, you’re nowhere, or, investing in domain names is the single best thing you can
How to tell if a new TLD will succeed (and most won’t).
I just read Rick Spence’s “What’s in a name? It could be a fortune on the Internet“, (HT to HybridDomainer), which seemingly dials the needle back to (pick one), 2005 or 2007, or maybe 2010 and drinks the Kool-Aid every domainer has on an IV drip: the notion that fortune and success can be achieved
simply by virtue of “owning the right names” (i.e How can we be bankrupt? Don’t we own TenMillionDollars.com?)
Only in this case, he’s talking about the seemingly impending new top-level-domains. “New domain names will rank above the current crop”,
easyDNS launches .SUX Top Level Domain
/04/01/11 TORONTO/ – easyDNS Technologies Inc., the ultra-cool DNS guys, today announced it is moving forward to secure .SUX under the ICANN new TLD process. The .SUX domain is not intended to encourage registrations which disparage any company or entity. “A number of factors have converged to make this possible”, said CEO Mark Jeftovic, “the [...]
Cyberplex decimated by Yahoo/Bing and Q4 Guidance restatement
Cyberplex.com (TSX:CX) is Canada’s largest CPA network with a fairly blue-chip customer base including RBC and Jaguar along with net giants like eHarmony and Netflix. They’ve been pretty aggressively growing revenues and earnings over the past couple years and for awhile I counted myself a shareholder. I sold my position last year when they announced [...]
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IMHO Oracle won’t sell sun.com, and TheDomains censors comments
Domainers, ever hopeful that there is some “big domaining angle” to anything that happens in the world are busy kicking around guestimates for how much SUN.COM will sell for, given the announcement from Oracle that they will be decommissioning the domain name on June 1st. Estimates around the industry vary from 800K to around 2.5M, [...]