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Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?

 
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Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
I was young. Some people cashed in by registering some of the best domains. Or was that all the government?
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Re: Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
Yes. I know a guy who registered several and made bank.
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Re: Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
Yes. I know a guy who registered several and made bank.
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He registered them for.. $10 each? Wild.
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Re: Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
I was just thinking about this the other day.

I was online in the early mid 90's and I still remember when the internet celebrated 1M sites and there was options galore to invest in the domain names...All kinds of early first foot in the door investment opportunity's.

HELL YA I missed that boat big time because I had NO clue....I wish someone told me...I was already doing great financially back then so guess I was complacent.
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Re: Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
I was just thinking about this the other day.

I was online in the early mid 90's and I still remember when the internet celebrated 1M sites and there was options galore to invest in the domain names...All kinds of early first foot in the door investment opportunity's.

HELL YA I missed that boat big time because I had NO clue....I wish someone told me...I was already doing great financially back then so guess I was complacent.
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Yeah. Just like we were all twiddling our thumbs when BTC was .001$
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Re: Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
I was just thinking about this the other day.

I was online in the early mid 90's and I still remember when the internet celebrated 1M sites and there was options galore to invest in the domain names...All kinds of early first foot in the door investment opportunity's.

HELL YA I missed that boat big time because I had NO clue....I wish someone told me...I was already doing great financially back then so guess I was complacent.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 44307249


Yeah. Just like we were all twiddling our thumbs when BTC was .001$
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So who wants to share the next frontier?
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Re: Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
I was just thinking about this the other day.

I was online in the early mid 90's and I still remember when the internet celebrated 1M sites and there was options galore to invest in the domain names...All kinds of early first foot in the door investment opportunity's.

HELL YA I missed that boat big time because I had NO clue....I wish someone told me...I was already doing great financially back then so guess I was complacent.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 44307249


Yeah. Just like we were all twiddling our thumbs when BTC was .001$
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So who wants to share the next frontier?
 Quoting: McMarshal

Shoot
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Re: Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
Domain hoarders are trash. Its the used car salesman of the internet.

If Jews can possibly find a way to make miney doing absolutly nothing theyll make a industry out of it.
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Re: Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
The dot com boom was massive. Companies and people were speculating on what would be a popular name.
What people didn't know was that as names were snapped up and sold off people making websites just went with wacky names they could get.
Look at all the nonsense websites we use on a daily basis. This isn't because it is unique it's because it is cheap.
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Re: Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
The dot com boom was massive. Companies and people were speculating on what would be a popular name.
What people didn't know was that as names were snapped up and sold off people making websites just went with wacky names they could get.
Look at all the nonsense websites we use on a daily basis. This isn't because it is unique it's because it is cheap.
 Quoting: Golbez


Exactly why pay millions to some domain sqautter thats literaelly done nothing.
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Re: Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
It turned out to be a bust when companies used the legal system to take them. I think the guise was trademark laws. Very few people made millions buying domains.
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Re: Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
You know you can register them for free right?
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Re: Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
It turned out to be a bust when companies used the legal system to take them. I think the guise was trademark laws. Very few people made millions buying domains.
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It's crazy, there are still a few available out there that
would make millions with a simple redirect.

Yet thousands of utterly stupid ones are
hoarded and claimed to be "premium".
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01/09/2024 10:43 AM
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Re: Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
You know you can register them for free right?
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How? Where?
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01/09/2024 10:46 AM
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Re: Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
You know you can register them for free right?
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How? Where?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 86694821


ICANN
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Re: Did anyone have any idea domains would be worth millions in the early 90s?
You know you can register them for free right?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 86483596


How? Where?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 86694821


ICANN
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 86483596


First you want to trademark it.





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