Before Domain Names

Curt · 10-05-2012, 08:55:25 AM

Hey all, random question:

If you could go back to the time before domain names were being registered, and you had the chance to register 1 and only 1 domain name, what would it be and why?

boxfish · 10-05-2012, 09:58:12 AM

I'd probably go for travel.com

Interesting, lucrative, developable, saleable

DomainM · 10-05-2012, 09:58:28 AM

sex.com, easy. I would then simply sell it in 2010 for $13 million

boxfish · 10-05-2012, 10:08:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SandersDesign

sex.com, easy. I would then simply sell it in 2010 for $13 million

And advise the new owner to try and do something more inventive than a pinterest clone?

nameholic · 10-05-2012, 10:20:43 AM

Buy it Right and rent out anything thats Left of the .

???????? . uk.com

Edwin · 10-05-2012, 11:11:27 AM

London.com

Big enough to be worth megabucks if done right, small enough to be "manageable", right extension given the 50 million overseas tourists who flock there each year.

doodlebug · 10-05-2012, 11:46:18 AM

Money.com

The commission you can make from these type of aff programmes can be great whereas with Sex.com people tend to want porn without paying so Money.com would be much easier to monetise.

mattyr45 · 10-05-2012, 11:51:42 AM

Definitely would have been a .com, probably a one word domain -
I'd have gone for google or amazon

dragon · 10-05-2012, 11:55:54 AM

loans.com

DomainM · 10-05-2012, 12:03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by doodlebug

Money.com

The commission you can make from these type of aff programmes can be great whereas with Sex.com people tend to want porn without paying so Money.com would be much easier to monetise.

True, however if you'er simply after a lottery type domain win $13 million is a good sum for who ever perviously owned it. Would I like to develop such a site? NO! It's not my type of project nor area of interest.

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doodlebug Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 5,219 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 32)	Money.com The commission you can make from these type of aff programmes can be great whereas with Sex.com people tend to want porn without paying so Money.com would be much easier to monetise.

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dragon Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Southampton Posts: 687 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 36)	loans.com