The Domain Game
Now, it’s not an entirely unknown fact that domain names are hot property nowadays. Online entrepreneurs buy and sell thousands of domain names everyday, making hefty sums of money in the process. Of course, there are some who lose out, mostly due to their inability to pick a quality name combined with the inability to find someone stupid enough to buy whatever nonsense name they have come up with.
Then there are those who sit on domains – for days, months, even years at a time. From this they expect to gain either an interested party or a price hike in the domain they’re sitting on for random reasons – virgle.com is an example of the latter.
Personally, I dislike domain squatters.
No, really, I do. Especially those who do nothing with their domains. They make my blood boil so, because they are occupying names when others could be using them better. It’s like sitting in a public toilet with the door locked and an year’s supply of newspapers, without doing your business.
Squatting aside, I also hate companies that come up with weird names and copyright them, then find someone with the domain similar to the new name and sue the person. Even if the domain was ten years old and the company came up last year, chances are that the company will snap it up. This sucks so much that I can’t even put how much it sucks into words.
Furthermore, companies like Google, the search engine, can essentially shut down an online business in mere days. All they have to do is mark a website as malware/spam. Seriously, how long will you remain a Pepsi customer if everytime you go there through google, you are told that they are trying to install spyware on your computer?
All of this and more sillyness is prevalent to an astounding degree on the interwebs. Fortunately, there’s a lot of good stuff too, which I won’t be mentioning here because I am feeling pessimistic.
June 7th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Lol.. well.. the thing is.. I understood the concept of “domains” through this post.. so thanks for that
On the other hand, the toilet analogies- you could so have done without them!!
AND great look for the site.
I promise I will visit this site without your asking me to from now on
PS- Please post more poems
June 10th, 2008 at 2:44 am
I know!!!
I didn’t have troubles to register my domain since it’s a quote from a song but I can’t believe how many domains are just parked. And people apparently make big bucks on that…
That’s why I’m not capitalist. Cause I don’t get it.
June 10th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Kudos RG +1
Nice post! “It’s like sitting in a public toilet with the door locked and an year’s supply of newspapers, without doing your business.”
As you might know, I completely agree with you on this point; but thanks to you, I didn’t have to worry about this problem. Thanks again for the good domain suggestion (now that I remember, I’ll give you credit on the site).
June 19th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Credit for suggesting the domain? Cool!
I like what I’ve done to the website too, let’s just hope it stays that way. The number of visitors drops like a rock every time I change the template, then goes up gradually.
As of now the graph looks like a roller coaster right out of Six Flags.