http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/04/04/im-tired-of-domain-name-shopping/ Oshoma Momoh's personal blog Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:42:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/04/04/im-tired-of-domain-name-shopping/#comment-191 My Own Pirate Radio » Domain Snatching Sun, 05 Nov 2006 15:54:20 +0000 http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/04/04/im-tired-of-domain-name-shopping/#comment-191 [...] I’m Tired of Domain Name Shopping [...] [...] I’m Tired of Domain Name Shopping [...]

]]> http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/04/04/im-tired-of-domain-name-shopping/#comment-190 My Own Pirate Radio » IP Squatting Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:09:31 +0000 http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/04/04/im-tired-of-domain-name-shopping/#comment-190 [...] Stinky flavor #2: Domain Trolls. I wrote here about the frustrations of trying to find a good domain name. It’s hard. You’ll surely have noticed the growing number of sites out there that are essentially ad-funded domain name parking lots, sometimes masquerading as search engines. While I don’t have data to back it, it seems to me that it’s happening at a growing rate, making it more expensive and time-consuming to secure a domain name. A blog post by John Cook of the Seattle PI sheds some light on this practice: Houston entrepreneur Marc Ostrofsky … is back with a new Houston startup called Internet REIT that has purchased more than 400,000 domain names. The competitor to Seattle’s Marchex also recently scored funding from Perot Investments and Maveron, the Seattle venture capital firm co-founded by former investment banker Dan Levitan and Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz. [...] [...] Stinky flavor #2: Domain Trolls. I wrote here about the frustrations of trying to find a good domain name. It’s hard. You’ll surely have noticed the growing number of sites out there that are essentially ad-funded domain name parking lots, sometimes masquerading as search engines. While I don’t have data to back it, it seems to me that it’s happening at a growing rate, making it more expensive and time-consuming to secure a domain name. A blog post by John Cook of the Seattle PI sheds some light on this practice: Houston entrepreneur Marc Ostrofsky … is back with a new Houston startup called Internet REIT that has purchased more than 400,000 domain names. The competitor to Seattle’s Marchex also recently scored funding from Perot Investments and Maveron, the Seattle venture capital firm co-founded by former investment banker Dan Levitan and Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz. [...]

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