January 24, 2006

I want to be one too….

This was my thought the entire time I was reading the Business 2.0 article on domainers. What a cool name (do-main-ers)! What a cool job! But really I was thinking to myself, that seems like a pretty easy (and pointless) job. So I am in. I shall try to make a splash as domainer (along with my likeminded click herders). Will it last? Hard to say. Will we make any money? If we get lucky. It should at least give us something to work at to see if we can validate (our fundamental theory) that we are as smart as the rest of those guys (and gals - although I do not believe any women were discussed in the articles I read). Here’s to hoping so.

We are plotting our strategy…

  • celebrities (what about law suits)
  • foods
  • appliances
  • animals
  • baby names
  • latin insect names
  • celebrity middle names

We are executing our programs….

  • all single words ending with “ing” and rhyming with “dog”
  • automatic registration of domains before anyone else thinks of them
  • direct tie to google news to capture most popular one word phrases in news tht are not registered
  • spyware that registers a domain and sets up a page the moment a user types it in so we never miss a type in opportunity

All of these have been done before, but not … well now I certainly can not publish that piece of information here just yet.

Soon we will launch a volley of new domains into the type-in traffic world. The domainers world. Our world.

Please be prepared to help me get paid.

* Filed by Mike at 4:52 am under Domainers

2 Responses to “I want to be one too….”

  1. Joel
    January 24th, 2006 | 11:17 am

    “…all single words ending with “ing” and rhyming with ‘dog’…”

    Brilliant! And so:

    SELECT
    COUNT(DISTINCT domain_name) AS '*og*ing.com',
    CONCAT(100*sum(if(is_registered,1,0))/COUNT(DISTINCT domain_name), '%')
        AS '% registered'
FROM domains
WHERE domain_name LIKE '%ing.com'
  AND domain_name LIKE '%og%';
+-------------+--------------+
| *og*ing.com | % registered |
+-------------+--------------+
|         253 | 43.87%       |
+-------------+--------------+

    Some of the results are dumb, of course, like zoografting.com (knock yourself out, domainers), but there are alot of good ones in that list of 166 unregistred examples.

  2. Michael
    January 24th, 2006 | 1:00 pm

    Well there is some celebrity case law already established. We will have to tread these waters carefully. One of us should go to law school quickly.

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