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slurm |
posted 01-04-2000 03:03 PM
 
Yes, eBay is now saying the bid was a fraud. |
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bobcobb |
posted 01-03-2000 10:10 AM
sounds like a fake bid to me, but there are some people who want to make this year really special. The site might just be used as some kind of portal for all the things that happen this year. With 15,000 links to it already it'll get some traffic (even if a lot of those people are the doomsday types who thought the world would end this past weekend) Still, it wasn't worth $10 million. After new years day I have to think that year2000.com is worth more thatn y2k.com. Y2k is a lot more associated with the disasters that people were expecting while year2000.com could be about anything that happens during this year as I said above. bob |
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dude |
posted 01-02-2000 06:32 PM
daffy, you might be surprised to hear that someone bid $10 million for it! Of course, some of the ridiculously high bids on eBay turn out to be fake. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. If it turns out to be real, they're probably paying for the traffic rather than the domain name (the site owner claims that 15,000 other sites link to it). |
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daffy |
posted 12-30-1999 04:08 PM
I agree. No one is going to pay $1 million for the site. First of all, the best domain name for this subject is obviously y2k.com (which Cnet owns), not year2000.com. This guy waited too long to sell. It may have had some value two years ago, but why would anyone pay anything for it after the big day? It just wouldn't make sense. |
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trentr |
posted 12-29-1999 06:08 PM
why exactly would I want to buy this site? for the novelty value of it? After 2000 it really isn't that special of a domain name trent |
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newguy |
posted 12-29-1999 05:17 PM
"Canadian computer consultant Peter de Jager says his work is nearly done and he's ready to cash in his URL. The domain name for his Web site, Year2000.com, is now on sale at eBay Inc. with a minimum bid price of $1 million. "We created the Year 2000 Information Center in 1995 for a single purpose -- to create awareness of the year 2000 computer problem and to get people to take the problem seriously. To the best of our ability we achieved that goal," said de Jager in a message to visitors at the Web site. The auction will end at midnight U.S. Central time at the end of the day on Jan. 1, 2000. With four days to go, no bidders have been found." |
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sue donim |
posted 12-29-1999 03:15 PM
I just stopped by GreatDomains to see how the auctions are going. These have been sold: forsalebyowner.com ($835K) fruits.com ($160K) speaker.com ($120K) phonecalls.com ($120K) happybirthday.com ($55K) madeira.com ($50K) promotion.com (no price listed) capital.com (no price listed) |
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lockin |
posted 12-27-1999 11:15 AM
Yes, I read about the increase in allowable domain name length. I spent a few minutes trying to think of domain names that are worth having that are longer than 23 characters, but didn't come up with much. In domain names, shorter is almost always better. |
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Machiavelli |
posted 12-27-1999 09:50 AM
Just thought i'd throw this out there: As of a week ago, it is now possible to register domain names up to 67 characters in length, including the ".com" or ".net"or ".org" extensions. No longer will you be limited to theprevious 23 character domain names. |
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trentr |
posted 12-23-1999 01:09 PM
This board has seems to a place to discuss anything about domain names. Here's an interesting story: http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,8157,00.html?nl=mg The story is about a guy who has the domain nfltoday.com (also .org and .net) and is using it to promote his online gambling picks. This is nothing like the etoy case because this guy is directly profiting from a name which belongs to the CBS show NFL Today. He also has content from the nfl.com site and only a small disclaimer at the bottom saying he is not affiliated with NFL.com, NFL Today, or NFL properties. To me, this is crossing the line. He's promoting gambling on football on a site that would seem to be affiliated with the NFL. Not only that... he's taking users that are looking for the NFL Today website. The NFL is suing him... so we'll see what happens |
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newguy |
posted 12-23-1999 11:32 AM
DomainRace.com had an auction yesterday of 600 relatively good domain names. None of them sold, though. Maybe the sellers wanted to much. Or maybe the buyers were too cheap. Or maybe people just didn't know about the auction... I didn't know about it until it was over, and DomainRace isn't as popular as GreatDomains. |
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slurm |
posted 12-22-1999 02:05 PM
Here's a new article that basically supports Tom's position that prices will probably continue to rise: http://www.cnnfn.com/1999/12/22/investing/q_domaintrading/ |
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charlie1 |
posted 12-20-1999 11:48 AM
Thanks for the article gatsby. I feel like it will be confusing if IT companies, marketing companies, italian organizations, and other individuals all reserve .it domain names. If it were just for IT companies I think it might be a good idea but the fact that it is different from the .coms but not really standardized in any way makes it not as useful. I do think it will proliferate as more and more people want to get on the web but realize there aren't any good .coms left out there. charlie |
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dude |
posted 12-20-1999 11:34 AM
Interesting. But I do think that .com's are so far ahead that anyone who gets verb.it will have to go to great lengths to remind people that the site is located at verb.it, not verbit.com. |
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gatsby |
posted 12-20-1999 09:57 AM
".it" names are now available so that Italy can be the furthest thing from your mind. http://www.bizreport.com/news/1999/12/991216-2.htm |
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