Years ago - the mid-90s not the mid-50s - but we are talking about the internet here...as I was saying, years ago, a good domain name cost about $50 to register for a year. There were fewer than 100,000 domains. So you can imagine the fun of playing with the notion of registering coke.com or pepsi.com.
There were many interesting domain name registration situations. A good example is Jim Cashel who in 1994 registered about a dozen and a half domains with company names such as trump, esquire, and hertz. In the early days of domain name registration, the concept of capture internet real estate was of little interest to many big businesses. All a person needed was a credit card and the ability to come up with names that he or she might like to register.
When the internet turned out to be more than a fad, business began to find that a lot of the domains relating to their business were already owned. There was a brief burgeoning business in domain name squatting. This was not illegal. Actually there had never been a reason to even consider such an action. There was no legal impediment to anyone registering a copyrighted name. They might have trouble using the name to advertise the copyrighted items but there was nothing to stop them from registering the actual name.
The laws changed and such behavior is no longer possible. Now a whole different problem exists and that is that the choice in internet top level domain names, particular the dot-coms, is dwindling. As it now stands, you should consider yourself lucky to find a dot-com phrase that you can register as your domain.
However, many times, really top-notch domain names return to the fold. People and computers fade away, go out of business, and change direction. They give up domains they registered in the heyday of domain name registrations and there are some dandy domains available out there with good old-fashioned short names.
You think all good domain names are gone or extremely expensive? Well, they are not. Jason Dutch owns and operates JasonsDomains.com where where he lists up to 800 premium domain names and accepts 70% of all "Name Your Own Price" bids. Find the perfect domain at JasonsDomains. |
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