Forget about wedding oaths: they exist in order to be broken. People are not computers that obey to strict code commands, without ever changing their behavior, opinions and preferences. People get married and quite often, they get divorced. A lot of married people are domain owners, or a lot of … [Read more...]
Brother, can you spare a domain?
February 8, 2008 by 6 Comments
A CEO of a construction company emailed me once, emphasizing how he'd have to "put food on the family table" than pay any type of fee for a domain I owned. In fact, he outright said that he needed the domain name and by declaring his inability to pay, I should hand it over to him. When I Googled his … [Read more...]
Reading a domain investor’s mind: Telepathy, Inc. – An Interview
February 7, 2008 by Leave a Comment
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
February 6, 2008 by 6 Comments
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
February 6, 2008 by 1 Comment
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...]
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