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Hostage negotiation (aka buying a domain)
- blake8086 14y agoWhy is it that people loathe domain name holders, but don't feel the same sense of outrage over land holders?
- hkyeti 14y agoYou can more easily move your place to live, but harder to change your name. And you don't often see prime real estate sitting around unused for years.
- clinth 14y agoFurthermore, there are usually eminent domain laws which can be used to by local governments to pressure landowners into using that prime real estate.
- Frozenlock 14y agoI don't get it. The author makes it sound like he did a great job. How buying a domain for 20k$ is a great thing? Is "megirl" already anchored in the heads of thousands of users, enough to justify this purchase? IMO, this 20k$ could have been used to do much more important things. New features? Marketing? Or even pay the shareholders!
- hkyeti 14y agoWe have about 400,000 users and plan for many more this year (launching new products). So view it as an investment as part of effort to build a consumer brand, ala Barbie for the mobile generation. but i hear you, its a lot of money...most we've ever spent on anything