January 18, 2006
‘Scuse Me, Are You Going To Click That?
The list of available single-word .coms is growing, and currently stands at around 222,000. I’m intrigued with a set of domains which have been registered, but which apparently don’t have an IP address or name server. This accounts for roughly 6% of all registered domains in the single-word-dot-com set.
So what are those folks doing? How long have they had those unused domains? Are they likely to do anything with them soon? Obviously those domain names were good enough that somebody bought them at some point. So what if I approached them and offered to take the domains off their hands for twice the going rate, to buy out the rest of their registration term? Kinda makes you think.
Filed by Joel at 2:04 am under Web Development