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Re: Gail.com FAQ

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Post by mattlondon »

charcircuit wrote: post #8

It must have been nice to have been alive in the early internet where barely any domains were taken. On the bright side domains have been less relevant since the rise of accessing sites via search engines and the move to mobile apps whose stores don't suffer from the squatting issues.

They were much more expensive in those days IIRC - today they are the cost of a couple of coffees, those days they were more like 25% the cost of a new computer... per year! It was also quite inaccessible in terms of purchasing - contracts, call our sales team etc. Things like GoDaddy were still either non-existent or very nascent in the mid-late 90s when I was just starting out as a early teen online.

I had dreams as a youngster of owning my own domain name (just one!) and running my own site there... Now I don't even know how many domains I own!

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Post by cottsak »

charcircuit wrote: post #8

It must have been nice to have been alive in the early internet where barely any domains were taken. On the bright side domains have been less relevant since the rise of accessing sites via search engines and the move to mobile apps whose stores don't suffer from the squatting issues.

but if you run a business, don't underestimate the value of a short, and well-named .com

preferably one without hyphens too.

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Post by massimosgrelli »

It's so refreshing to see someone on the Internet not looking to make easy money showing off some lousy advertising. I would love to know more about the author; she's most likely interesting.

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Post by rglullis »

charcircuit wrote: post #8

It must have been nice to have been alive in the early internet where barely any domains were taken. On the bright side domains have been less relevant since the rise of accessing sites via search engines and the move to mobile apps whose stores don't suffer from the squatting issues.

The most famous story that I can think of was the one of the Wired journalist that bought mcdonalds.com and that the company didn't seem to care for a while. Eventually said journalist just gave the domain to them in exchange of a $3500 donation to a public school in NY.

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Post by charcircuit »

cottsak wrote: post #14
charcircuit wrote: post #8

It must have been nice to have been alive in the early internet where barely any domains were taken. On the bright side domains have been less relevant since the rise of accessing sites via search engines and the move to mobile apps whose stores don't suffer from the squatting issues.

but if you run a business, don't underestimate the value of a short, and well-named .com preferably one without hyphens too.

Is there any research on how the quality of domain for a brand affects its key metrics?
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