Domain Name For Kids - A New Trend

[joepole]

I bought my last name + the letter s.com for my family (i.e. if my last name was smith I would have had smiths.com) in 1996 and since then we've had a family photo web site at www.smiths.com and all had @smiths.com email addresses.

...until 2 weeks ago when a company called me and offered me $30,000 for the name.

[Pocahontas]

Whoa that's insane! Congratulations on the windfall!

[joepole]

Thanks. It was a good week.

[rhertz]

Originally Posted by joepole

I bought my last name + the letter s.com for my family (i.e. if my last name was smith I would have had smiths.com) in 1996 and since then we've had a family photo web site at www.smiths.com and all had @smiths.com email addresses.

...until 2 weeks ago when a company called me and offered me $30,000 for the name.

I had my last name dot com for a few years back in the 90's and let it expire and Sony Records immediately grabbed it. Very dumb move on my part.

[Aximilli]

Interesting point there AnimeSpirit, however, IMO .com domains are still "the ****", the cream of the cream. I had a .in site once and whenever I used to tell people my site's name, they used to go to my site's name .com & not .in.

[AnimeSpirit]

Originally Posted by Aximilli

Interesting point there AnimeSpirit, however, IMO .com domains are still "the ****", the cream of the cream. I had a .in site once and whenever I used to tell people my site's name, they used to go to my site's name .com & not .in.

If more people used other top level domains, then people would get more accustomed to hearing them and therefore less likely to mistake them.