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>Chinese airline paid $280,000 for the phone number 88888888. It certainly added wealth to the phone number holder/assigner.
I always wonder how much lawyers in the US pay for their phone numbers... 444-4444 or 888-8888 and so on. I would guess it's even more?
I wonder if this will ever evolve in emoji in URLs. I watched a short video about a guy who is squatting on most of the emoji domains
I now have the image of a man squatting over the pile of poo emoji. I accept I will never grow up.
But apparently most TLDs don't support emoji URLs yet.
>Chinese airline paid $280,000 for the phone number 88888888. It certainly added wealth to the phone number holder/assigner.
I always wonder how much lawyers in the US pay for their phone numbers... 444-4444 or 888-8888 and so on. I would guess it's even more?
Ie: they’re licensed to different parties in different locales.
> You can’t blame other countries for wanting to tell the American 250s to 0748.
250 = idiot
0748 = go die
Which translates:
> You can’t blame other countries for wanting to tell the American idiots to go die.
I'm not sure why the author felt the need to include that.
(Edit: Am I wrong for questioning the article?)
Hmm, it seems like the title should have a year after it.
> The phone companies China Telecom and China Unicom simply reappropriated their well-known customer service numbers as domain names, 10086.cn and 10010.cn, respectively. https://9292.nl is an example of this outside China, taking its name from 0900-9292 (a phone number you can call to get public transport travel directions, now largely replaced by the website/app).
So not being able to rely on search, people have to memorize companies' urls, to type them into address bar and pass along to others the actual url string. Internet companies are forced to display them predominantly in ads. So a domain name that is cute/easy(often costing ridiculus amount) is all that more important in China than elsewhere.
Google please come back, it will be a net gain for humanity.