The Death of Domain Parking?

An anonymous reader found an article about the former CEO of MySpace moving into the domain parking biz. He says "I thought, it can't be that easy. So I talked to some domainers, and they said, 'We own 300,000 domains, we make $20 million a year, we have just four employees and some servers in the Caymans.'" The idea behind the business doesn't really seem any better to me than just having a parked name with a banner ad. At least, not for the internet as a whole.

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[turnipsatemybaby]

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Re:Domains

[iamjoltman]

Actually, it looks like the owner of Penisland.com [penisland.com] knows exactly what his domain name looks like :)
PenIsland.net [penisland.net] is what you were thinking of.

"Web 2.0 Sprinkle"?!

[TheWoozle]

FTFA:

If you can make that much doing nothing, what if we added some Web 2.0 sprinkle...

I've now found a great metaphor for all this "Web 2.0" nonsense: urine.

Web 2.0 is people pissing on the Internet!

Quite a bold article...

[illegalcortex]

You know, something putting things in bold is a visually pleasing way of drawing more attention to topic sentences so people can skim instead of reading the whole article. But when you do it too much it just look like crap.

The change

[Billosaur]

The change is going to be that the Internet is going to finally resemble a Möbius loop, where once you click on one content link and keep clicking, you will eventually wind up back where you started. People will be trapped in infinite loops of marketing and commerce will collapse because no one will actually be able to buy anything, because they can't break out of the loop.

Re:This comment parked

[Prysorra]

And "turnipsatemybaby.com" for 15!

www.BqLJJNJq6vL.com

[russ1337]

I've 'parked' the following domains for some time. Call it cyber squatting or whatever, but when a company comes along with these names, i'll be laughing all the way to the bank!!

www.XFmq1yw1pC3.com
www.QtEQpK1jGnm.com
www.BqLJJNJq6vL.com
www.bbyja3OWEVW.com
www.iQ7aE0YSTl8.com
www.tV56pze3idd.com

and i've got all the .biz, .info, .org etc too. so don't think you can steal my idea!

Re:www.BqLJJNJq6vL.com

[Xugumad]

> www.tV56pze3idd.com

Hey, how did you find out my password? :)

AsbesDot

[Rob T Firefly]

News for Asbestos. Stuff that matters.

Re:www.BqLJJNJq6vL.com

[El Torico]

Damn, you've ruined my plans to turn /etc/shadow files into profitable advertising!

Re:One can only hope.

[JohnnyLocust]

Domain parking is just another form of internet garbage

And MySpace isn't?

Re:www.BqLJJNJq6vL.com

[Hoi Polloi]

I'm going to grab all of the mispellings of those then. Just wait until I get pay-per-click $ for "www.XDmq1yw1pC3.com".

Re:The change

[Joe Snipe]

Fun Fact: All loops eventually end where they started, not just Möbius loops!

Re:www.BqLJJNJq6vL.com

[peepleperson]

Prepare to feel the wrath of InterNIC's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. QtEQpK1jGnm

Re:Pen is Mightier

[Ultra64]

What matters is does it work? Will it really mighty my penis?

Re:One can only hope.

[Shaper_pmp]

We clearly need to work harder on our new users.

Re:One can only hope.

[anagama]

I know how to use the net. Heck, I was surfing with Lynx just last night. Anyway, I have largely stopped typing the name directly to url bar because every now and then, I make a typo. The search box is right up there by the url bar on all gui browsers anyway.

Re:One can only hope.

[dave562]

People get stuck in their ways. Heck, some people can't even accept that there are sites that don't begin with "www". Tell them to go to "mail.yahoo.com" and they'll go to "www.yahoo.com"

Hahahahahaaaa. I run into that type of person quite frequently too. The young, ditzy, personal assistants often seem to fall into that category. "I went to the link you told me to go to and it isn't working. You know, www.mail....." , "No, LISTEN you stupid bitch! There is no fucking WWW." .... Sorry, had a flashback there.

Exactly.

[Ayanami Rei]

Like a plugin that checks the netblock of the result of a DNS lookup on a URL... if it's in a range of known parking sites or phising sites, it'd throw up an appropriate error/blocked page.

That'd be a neat extension to have.

Re:One can only hope.

[JazzLad]

That, and the do NOT understand .edu

At least our students don't (support for a distance learning college better left nameless). You tell them it's www.[nameless].edu and they seem to 60% of the time insist on adding a .com after the .edu and then complain that the site sucks, there is always an error.

Oh, well.

Re:www.BqLJJNJq6vL.com

[dreamlax]

Prepare to feel the wrath of InterNIC's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. QtEQpK1jGnm

How do you pronounce the 1 in your name?

Re:Mozilla did it right

[Anonymous Coward]

I doubt that will happen as long as we (those of us who have to deal with users every day) need to refer users to KB articles like this one: http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FA Q2859 [compaq.com]

Re: OT sig

[iangoldby]

Parent's sig:

ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.

ad digicam Claiming a proposition is true, and that you have the tapes to prove it.

Re:One can only hope.

[Vokbain]

No. Them being a pinhead who can't follow simple instructions automatically makes them a stupid bitch.

Re:One can only hope.

[ResidntGeek]

Yeah, I realized it as soon as I posted. They really should take away the submit button and force me to preview.