I've been privileged to have sold one of my best domains, 100.org, to a great cause. The transaction completed last year, and gave the chance to a great, celebrity-backed campaign about 100% renewable energy to be born. The Solutions Project has now pushed forward for the 100% campaign with … [Read more...]
Perfect numbers revisited Part Deux: 360 and 100
February 5, 2015 by 7 Comments
I've followed the seemingly cryptic obsession of the Chinese for Arabic numerals for years. Around 2002, at a time that I was investing in short LLN and LNN .com domains that were available to register en masse, a very smart domainer lady shared with me the information that seems to be less of a … [Read more...]
Perfect numbers revisited
September 30, 2014 by 10 Comments
While there is a trend that treats every numeric domain as a coin of sorts, the truth is that not all numbers are created equal. In the course of a decade, I've invested in a limited amount of numeric domains in the original three TLDs, perhaps no more than 25 in total, maybe less. Selective … [Read more...]
The insatiable hunger of the Chinese for numeric domains
October 28, 2011 by 6 Comments
A few months ago I mentioned how a domain of mine got hit with 4,000 WHOIS queries while it neared its expiration date. After reading Shane's post about the sale of 55.com to a Chinese company, I noticed that one of my numeric domains accumulated almost 1,000 WHOIS queries - again at … [Read more...]
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