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(Baltimore Sun) Spiffy Registering the domain "pizza.com" in 1994: $20. Auctioning that same domain name off in 2008: pricele... well actually about $3M   (baltimoresun.com) divider line 140
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toejam 2008-04-03 02:06:52 PM  
What about whitehouse.com? (for god's sake NSFW!!!)


/yes, multiple !'s necessary.

 
Anaesthetized Cephalopod [TotalFark] 2008-04-03 02:07:47 PM  
Nice.

 
ScaliaDissenting 2008-04-03 02:07:48 PM  
Vodak.com?

 
Compulsive Liar 1986 2008-04-03 02:07:57 PM  
anybody interested in MyPissBurns.com? i make a good price, just for you...

 
reverendfitty 2008-04-03 02:08:02 PM  
toejam: What about whitehouse.com? (for god's sake NSFW!!!)


/yes, multiple !'s necessary.


I thought the government finally bought this off that pron site

 
Chaim Witz 2008-04-03 02:08:06 PM  
Yeah, try looking up men.com.

rugbyjockTM approved!

 
Colonel_Debugger 2008-04-03 02:08:38 PM  
He says he lives in North Potomac? Maybe now he'll be able to move out of Rockville to the real Potomac, MD.

 
moops 2008-04-03 02:08:42 PM  
I've been sitting on grannyamputeescatporn.com since 1994; I should be able to rake in at least a million

 
ShereKhan 2008-04-03 02:09:25 PM  
I am still waiting for someone to pay me big money for www.steveforbes4president.com

 
GhettoWinter 2008-04-03 02:09:47 PM  
I thought cyber squatting was illegal or does it just pertain to names?

 
pezzor 2008-04-03 02:10:32 PM  
clownpenis.fart

 
Seacop 2008-04-03 02:11:55 PM  
GhettoWinter: I thought cyber squatting was illegal or does it just pertain to names?

Exactly, I think it only pertains to trade marked names like Hasbro, Chevrolet, etc...

 
Wired203 2008-04-03 02:12:14 PM  
Cyber squatting referrs to someone registering a trademarked name and holding it hostage, say nike.com etc. But generic names are perfectly fine to squat on, like business.com

 
Korangulation 2008-04-03 02:13:26 PM  
I'm glad nintendo finally bought out zelda.com

 
musicgeek420 2008-04-03 02:13:32 PM  
A small, yet fantastic example of how far the internet has come.. And how far out of whack our economy is.

 
Dome [TotalFark] 2008-04-03 02:14:18 PM  
mikerowesoft?

 
biobot [TotalFark] 2008-04-03 02:15:07 PM  
hotteens.org

 
NotSubby 2008-04-03 02:15:23 PM  
toejam: What about whitehouse.com? (for god's sake NSFW!!!)


/yes, multiple !'s necessary.


Holy crap. In the early days of the intertubes, I tried to show a coworker that even the government was easily accessed by the web.

Of course, being I am just used to typing in .com...

At least she had a sense of humor.

 
Seacop 2008-04-03 02:15:45 PM  
Dome: mikerowesoft?

I don't even want to think about what that internet site would show.

 
GhettoWinter 2008-04-03 02:16:11 PM  
Seacop: GhettoWinter: I thought cyber squatting was illegal or does it just pertain to names?

Exactly, I think it only pertains to trade marked names like Hasbro, Chevrolet, etc...


I remember something about a guy who had something like Madonna.com and wasn't allowed to sell it.

 
hugram 2008-04-03 02:16:28 PM  
fark.net

 
BBRModitha 2008-04-03 02:16:30 PM  
DownsSyndromeTeenCumDumpsters.com is open

 
Begoggle 2008-04-03 02:16:38 PM  
In 1994 I thought it cost a lot more than $20.

Some people/companies have way too much money to throw away on stupid crap like this, though. The inequity between rich and poor is absurd.

 
HealingAmerica 2008-04-03 02:16:41 PM  
GhettoWinter: I thought cyber squatting was illegal or does it just pertain to names?


I think it would have been illegal if he would have registered pizzahut.com and then tried selling it. If you register something that is common name, like water.com and not the company name like aquafina.com you should be ok.

 
justanotherfarkinfarker 2008-04-03 02:16:50 PM  
farking shiat mother farker. I was thinking of that shiat back in 94/95. Never did. God I'm a slacker.

 
ckirchen1 2008-04-03 02:17:14 PM  
www.creedthoughts.gov.www\creedthoughts

 
Death by Misadventure 2008-04-03 02:17:15 PM  
He lives in North Potomac? That means nothing to me because apparently North Potomac is considered a 3rd of Montgomery County now. That's like saying Rockville, MD is North Bethesda.

 
Jose628 2008-04-03 02:17:29 PM  
Registering the domain "www.pi.zza" in 1994 in one of those applets that offered "domains with extended name": $20.

Auctioning that same domain name off in 2008: priceless. I mean, as in zero.

 
justanotherfarkinfarker 2008-04-03 02:18:41 PM  
Begoggle: In 1994 I thought it cost a lot more than $20.

Some people/companies have way too much money to throw away on stupid crap like this, though. The inequity between rich and poor is absurd.


It was 2year min reg and it cost $70. I think there was only one co to reg though.

 
robisfunky 2008-04-03 02:18:44 PM  
toejam: What about whitehouse.com? (for god's sake NSFW!!!)


/yes, multiple !'s necessary.


Have you actually gone there lately?
/check your work, kiddies

 
sycocowz 2008-04-03 02:19:04 PM  
whitehouse.org is great

 
moops 2008-04-03 02:19:40 PM  
hugram: fark.net

Does drew have www.fark.edu?

 
CarlofET 2008-04-03 02:20:12 PM  
Death by Misadventure: He lives in North Potomac? That means nothing to me because apparently North Potomac is considered a 3rd of Montgomery County now. That's like saying Rockville, MD is North Bethesda.

Yeah, it's so true, and so many people care.

 
Fireproof 2008-04-03 02:20:21 PM  
Lately, I've been in the habit of going to the .coms of everyday words and short phrases.

I'll tell you what's disturbing, the ads on poop.com.

 
pentomino 2008-04-03 02:20:32 PM  
I used to work at the company that hosted pizza.com. I think it was 1999 and we handled some kind of software where you'd fill our a web form, and we'd print it out and fax it to whoever was really delivering the pizza. I wasn't involved, and I don't even think I ever got pizza.com to work.

 
toejam 2008-04-03 02:20:52 PM  
robisfunky: toejam: What about whitehouse.com? (for god's sake NSFW!!!)


/yes, multiple !'s necessary.

Have you actually gone there lately?
/check your work, kiddies


No. [shrugs and kicks feed timidly] Sorry.

 
dl1137 2008-04-03 02:21:43 PM  
pezzor: clownpenis.fart

Beat me by a mile...

 
robisfunky 2008-04-03 02:22:22 PM  
Fireproof: Lately, I've been in the habit of going to the .coms of everyday words and short phrases.

I'll tell you what's disturbing, the ads on poop.com.


try ratemypoo.com - not that it's NSFW it's NSFA (not safe for anyplace)
/remember: what has been seen cannot be unseen

 
vernonFL [TotalFark] 2008-04-03 02:23:32 PM  
zombo.com

 
toejam 2008-04-03 02:24:07 PM  
The Nissan (pops) case is interesting. I just checked it out (I done good robisfunky?) and apparently the brew-ha-ha-ha is still going on.

 
theologian [TotalFark] 2008-04-03 02:24:11 PM  
pentomino,

are you getting a kick out of these replies?

 
moops 2008-04-03 02:24:16 PM  
robisfunky: try ratemypoo.com - not that it's NSFW it's NSFA (not safe for anyplace)

For the absolute worst, go to poopsex.com. It's worse than lemonparty.

 
loupismcw 2008-04-03 02:24:26 PM  
I've been going about this whole Internet thing all wrong. All wrong, I tell you!

 
Seacop 2008-04-03 02:24:26 PM  
vernonFL: zombo.com

Holy crap, is that place still active?

 
stockbroker2003 2008-04-03 02:25:01 PM  
I have been holding on the Fark you in the ass with a poptart.com since this morning ? any takers?

 
WarEagle8 2008-04-03 02:25:17 PM  
FTFA
That's because the domain names often match keywords used to search, said Catherine Pancake, director of account services at Web Ad.vantage Inc., an Internet marketing firm based in Havre de Grace.

That's because the domain names often match keywords used to search, said Catherine Pancake, director of account services at Web Ad.vantage Inc., an Internet marketing firm based in Havre de Grace.
Pancake.com?

 
moops 2008-04-03 02:25:24 PM  
vernonFL: zombo.com

I registered that in 1995; as a result, I have full access to everything there is to do at zombocom.

 
statsman 2008-04-03 02:25:32 PM  

 
SlothB77 2008-04-03 02:26:21 PM  
GhettoWinter: I thought cyber squatting was illegal or does it just pertain to names?

pizza.com is not the same thing as pizzahut.com.

pizza is pretty generic, squatting on pepsi.com or barackobama.com is just trying to take advantage of a company/ person's name.

 
Seacop 2008-04-03 02:26:58 PM  
moops: vernonFL: zombo.com

I registered that in 1995; as a result, I have full access to everything there is to do at zombocom.


You can do anything at zombo-com, anything at all, the only limit is yourself.....welcome.

 
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