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1993. I considered registering cocacola.com, sex.com, shell.com, etc. etc. Spent the money on consumables instead. There are few moments I remember as clearly

• officialjunk 13y ago
  You decided to spend money instead of free domains? ;)
• klipt 13y ago
  Now that people mostly use search engines instead of typing whatever.com, I imagine domain squatters don't get as much traffic. As I see it, the purpose of search engines is to route around squatters and find real content, no matter where it's hosted.
  • arb99 13y ago
    The domains are still worth a lot though.
  • bad_user 13y ago
    Unfortunately those same search engines are placing much importance on words that appear in a domain's name. Google at least also has a clear preference for well known TLDs, such as .com, .net and .org The domain name is also many times your brand. So it's true that you may not type "whatever.com", but you still type "whatever". In this particular instance, "whatever.com" actually exists, but has no content on it and thus it doesn't have a high ranking. But in other cases a developer of something like "go-whatever.ly" may end up with a world of hurt. For startups, these considerations don't even factor in the importance that investors themselves place on well picked domain names. If you think domain names are not important anymore, you're wrong.
  • headchange 13y ago
    Unless its a sex related domain. I'm sure fuck.com, sex.com and anything similar will receive free traffic as long as domain names exist.