Archives for 2008

Reading a domain investor’s mind: Telepathy, Inc. – An Interview

A few years back, I had the pleasure of networking with Nat Cohen, President of Telepathy, Inc., a web development and Internet branding company based in Washington, D.C. The company was founded in 1999 and since then has been associated with a hearty appetite for building - among others - a … [Read more...]

Brute-forcing the future: LLLLLLLLLL .com’s

Six or seven years ago, I saw a market for short, easy to memorize .com domains. Short, as in 3 characters in length, including one or more numbers; because the LLL .com namespace was long gone. I wrote a Perl script that would go through all the permutations of 000 to ZZZ - all 46,656 of them … [Read more...]

Power naps – power grabs

When I was growing up as a teenager, my friend Mike would always say that one should seize every given opportunity by being alert and prepared. During our trips to downtown Athens' "Silicon Valley" shops where all the new gadgets, computers and software first appeared, Mike would bring with him a … [Read more...]

Domaining in a pool full of sharks and hustlers

There are two distinct species of predatory fish, swimming in the seemingly calm waters of Domaining: the domain hustlers and the sharks. At least, that's what my gut feeling tells me - and I am partial to my gut since about forty years ago. In the coming days and weeks I will attempt to lay out … [Read more...]