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Domain Aftermarket Overdue for an "Asset Repricing"

• Comment posted Apr 27, 2007 2:13 am PDT — by Snoopy
  Robert Haastrup-Timmi said: Mark!...that's a bit like saying don't hold on to your disney shares back in 1955 or sell your the Andy Warhol your your dad passed on to you back in 1972 or something. The point, is all…

• Comment posted Mar 02, 2007 6:28 am PST — by Snoopy
  Drugs.com was report as sold for $823456 not $4million.

Squeegee Domains

• Comment posted Jul 06, 2007 4:15 am PDT — by Snoopy
  John Levine said: That may well be the case in the domain speculators' alternate reality.  Here in the regular reality, if I type, say, bermduda into my address bar, since bermduda.com doesn't exist, it does what I've configured my browser…

• Comment posted Jul 06, 2007 12:58 am PDT — by Snoopy
  John Levine said: I hadn't realized that domain speculators also have an alternate reality but now that I see it, it's a lot like the spammers'.  They have a lot in common, using a hard to fix technical quirk to…

• Comment posted Jun 27, 2007 2:00 am PDT — by Snoopy
  John Levine said: It should be obvious that the distinction here is that you control your browser, and if you want it to send you to Yahoo or whatever, you can set it up to do that.  But it's your…

• Comment posted Jun 27, 2007 1:56 am PDT — by Snoopy
  Actually just typing "stocks" does a google search and sends me to the top result in firefox, I wouldn't call that a typo though, I think most of the time to do that the person would be thinking the address…

• Comment posted Jun 27, 2007 1:51 am PDT — by Snoopy
  Antony Van Couvering said: Interestingly, if I just "typo" stocks.com by typing "stocks" in my browser, I end up at finance.yahoo.com.  Perhaps this Firefox/Yahoo arrangement, which must rival domain typos in volume, is respectable "non-squeegee" behavior—somehow.  I suppose a browser…

• Comment posted Jun 27, 2007 12:37 am PDT — by Snoopy
  John Levine said: I've been registering domains since about 1990. (Look at the date on iecc.com, which was not my first domain.) I have all the domains I need, thanks. So instead of registering stocks.com (or anything of value I'm…

• Comment posted Jun 26, 2007 2:32 pm PDT — by Snoopy
  I think the squeegee analogy isn't bad for typo domains, obviously though it is an over the top generalization the way John has used it. The bitter tone of the post has me wondering though, in particular the reply below…