I wish I'd have thought of that!

Michael_Anthony · 07-06-07

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/busin...0989/index.htm

What a great idea!

Alfie · 07-06-07

Thats pretty amazing!!! He who dares....

kier · 07-06-07

I read about this the other day, very clever idea with the .cm domains indeed!

sgpratley · 07-06-07

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He who dares....

Gets rogered by the lawyers at some stage no doubt, but that's some pile of hay to make while the sun shines!

axod · 07-06-07

It's a sad sad day when people firstly mistype a domain, then decide instead of correcting their typo, to click on some adverts. Do these people have brains at all?

Personally I hate these domain whores. I was looking for a domain the other day. Went through hundreds of possibles. ALL were taken. NONE were in use. They all just had crappy adverts on, and a link to offer them a price for it (In the thousands of dollars usually).

I really think the price for domain names should be made a lot higher to squeeze these people and prevent them from registering everything. At the moment it's just silly.

Lee_Owen · 07-06-07

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Originally Posted by axod

It's a sad sad day when people firstly mistype a domain, then decide instead of correcting their typo, to click on some adverts. Do these people have brains at all?

Personally I hate these domain whores. I was looking for a domain the other day. Went through hundreds of possibles. ALL were taken. NONE were in use. They all just had crappy adverts on, and a link to offer them a price for it (In the thousands of dollars usually).

I really think the price for domain names should be made a lot higher to squeeze these people and prevent them from registering everything. At the moment it's just silly.

Would you like the governemnt to step in and regulate prices of domains? God forbid domains get like houses eh? perhaps we should link prices to earnings? maybe you should take some of your own advice, don't like it, find something new. (smiley)

Lee

vcm · 07-06-07

Nice article. I recently tried to register a few .cm domains.

There are some great domains available that must get thousands of hits every month due to misspelling. I noticed that google.cm and myspace.cm were registered, and not to the respective companies. Check out the alexa ranks on these domains - they must get thousnads of visitors!
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...?url=google.cm

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...url=myspace.cm

When I attempted to register a few generics, I was told that the owner of the domain must already have a registered business in Cameroon. After delving deeper into this, I read a few reports of people going to the trouble of registering companies, then being ripped off with registration fees. Also, the registration fees are $799 per annum!

axod · 07-06-07

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Originally Posted by Lee_Owen

Would you like the governemnt to step in and regulate prices of domains? God forbid domains get like houses eh? perhaps we should link prices to earnings? maybe you should take some of your own advice, don't like it, find something new. (smiley)

Lee

You don't seem to understand the difference between a monopoly (Domain names are centrally regulated), and a free market (house sales, jobs etc).

We all HAVE to register domain names paying the same basic price to the authorities in charge of them. We have no choice on that.
A fairer system would be:

Person wants to register the domain ashgdkjhge.com.
The domain then gets auctioned off to the highest bidder over the next few days.
That way people can't just "grab" millions of domains and then hold anyone to ransom who wants one of them. The person who is willing to pay the most for the domain gets it.

Compared to the current system, which is "First to register gets it forever", even if they don't use it, and they only have to pay pocket money registration fees.

Lee_Owen · 07-06-07

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Originally Posted by axod

You don't seem to understand the difference between a monopoly (Domain names are centrally regulated), and a free market (house sales, jobs etc).

We all HAVE to register domain names paying the same basic price to the authorities in charge of them. We have no choice on that.
A fairer system would be:

Person wants to register the domain ashgdkjhge.com.
The domain then gets auctioned off to the highest bidder over the next few days.
That way people can't just "grab" millions of domains and then hold anyone to ransom who wants one of them. The person who is willing to pay the most for the domain gets it.

Compared to the current system, which is "First to register gets it forever", even if they don't use it, and they only have to pay pocket money registration fees.

No domains are property, houses are property, you pay your taxes to local government, the same as you do paying your fees to Nominet, inbetween that you sell bricks and mortar at a price you choose or as market is able to dictate that you choose unless you have a desirable property that will sell anyway, houses and domains the same, property.

*so you'd advocate that the richest buy domains through auctions, you don't make no sense. You're an advocate of a free market and less regulation and on the other hand actually believe in restrictive markets with more regulation, oh no hang on, you just see things how they benefit you, I get it now. What you just said, none of it makes sense.

Lee

Lee_Owen · 07-06-07

At least I'm feeling better today, Mum always said to me, "you're lovely when you're ill" haha

Lee

axod · 07-06-07

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Originally Posted by Lee_Owen

No domains are property, houses are property, you pay your taxes to local government, the same as you do paying your fees to Nominet, inbetween that you sell bricks and mortar at a price you choose or as market is able to dictate that you choose unless you have a desirable property that will sell anyway, houses and domains the same, property.

*so you'd advocate that the richest buy domains through auctions, you don't make no sense. You're an advocate of a free market and less regulation and on the other hand actually believe in restrictive markets with more regulation, oh no hang on, you just see things how they benefit you, I get it now. What you just said, none of it makes sense.

Lee

The big difference is that domains cost next to nothing to register at the start. Houses cost money to build, and lots of it.
This is the problem I have. Once someone owns a domain, sure they can sell it to who they like, find the best offer etc. But the fact that initially domains are pretty much free to whoever is first to grab them doesn't seem fair to me.

I think anything that increases the cost of domain names on initial registration to somewhere closer to the market value for that domain name is a VERY good thing. That's why I suggested an open auction on new registrations.
Sure, rich people can still outbid everyone if they like, but they'll be paying market prices, not like at the moment where they pay next to nothing.