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Domain Name registration again in vouge

Posted by Dane2003 on 11 June 2004 - 11:54 · 29 comments & 3543 views

Domain name buying is back in fashion once again--with registrations reaching levels last seen in 2000.

While domain name carpetbagging became a sport during the dot-com boom, as entrepreneurs snapped up URLs they hoped to sell for thousands of dollars, today's buyers are generally legitimate and simply want a Web address in order to publish a Web site.

More than 4.7 million new registrants joined the list of owners in the first three months of this year--an all-time high, according to VeriSign's latest domain name report. The number of registrations for the first quarter of this year shows 21 percent growth year over year. Generic top-level domains like .biz and .name are the poor cousins of the domain name game, with 8 percent of registrations compared with .com's 45 percent.

News source: C|Net News

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(2 replies) #1 Posted by dougkinzinger on 11 Jun 2004 - 12:00: Back in 96, I noticed that "www.finalfantasy.com" was available. Had I been older than 15 at the time, I would have bought it and squatted.

(5 replies) #2 Posted by NXTwoThou on 11 Jun 2004 - 12:16: I do the spam filtering at my work. How many of these domains are HJEDFFJ.info and the like? Every day I add one or two more of these craptackular junk registered domains to the list. Back in the day when it actually cost something to register a domain, this wouldn't have happened.

#3 Posted by Sub on 11 Jun 2004 - 12:22: Good more websites for me to design =)

(3 replies) #4 Posted by _//_TechTV on 11 Jun 2004 - 12:37: Should the title say "vogue" instead of vouge ??

(2 replies) #5 Posted by Palverone on 11 Jun 2004 - 12:45: you've just caused half your readership to go to dictionary.com's vouge entry

#6 Posted by Geo on 11 Jun 2004 - 12:54: ROFLMAO ... vouge

#7 Posted by Magallanes on 11 Jun 2004 - 13:29: www.neowin.com has registered?

(7 replies) #8 Posted by neufuse on 11 Jun 2004 - 13:39: well over the past two weeks ive goten pissed off... I have goten 20 letters in the mail telling me its time to renew domains i dont even own... then asking for checks of $25 to $99 a year per domain... FROM REAL COMPANIES TOO like verisign and register.com and some place called domain solutins? while all my 5 domains i have are registered through godaddy for only $8 a year for the next 10yrs perpaid... and the sad thing is the fact the letters i get in the mail asking me to renew are for other peoples domains... i dont know how they tied my name and address to someone else's whois info.....

(1 reply) #9 Posted by Varsity on 11 Jun 2004 - 16:06: <Obligatory www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.com/ post>

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