What's the deal with .com and .org?
06-01-2008, 08:22 PM
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What's the deal with .com and .org?
I didn't notice until tonight, but this website is registered to http://airlinepilotcentral.com and http://airlinepilotcentral.org. Does anyone know why? Wouldn't it be cheaper just to use one domain rather than two? 
06-02-2008, 04:14 AM
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It's a pretty common business practice to register multiple ends of a domain. One for the reason stated above. The other is to increase traffic. Considering that domain registration is relatively cheap, it a pretty simple thing to do.
06-03-2008, 11:45 AM
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I saw a news article about a British investor who was buying up thousands of website names and selling advertisments on them. His goal was to make millions off of peoples spelling / typing errors. Even went far as to negotiate with the nations that control the .co .cm .og .or domains.
I can see how it would be benneficial to own stake your claim on the world wide web.
I can see how it would be benneficial to own stake your claim on the world wide web.
06-03-2008, 12:16 PM
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I saw a news article about a British investor who was buying up thousands of website names and selling advertisments on them. His goal was to make millions off of peoples spelling / typing errors. Even went far as to negotiate with the nations that control the .co .cm .og .or domains.
I can see how it would be benneficial to own stake your claim on the world wide web.
I can see how it would be benneficial to own stake your claim on the world wide web.
A great example of taking advantage of spelling errors is: www.untied.com
06-03-2008, 04:30 PM
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06-03-2008, 04:55 PM
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I saw a news article about a British investor who was buying up thousands of website names and selling advertisments on them. His goal was to make millions off of peoples spelling / typing errors. Even went far as to negotiate with the nations that control the .co .cm .og .or domains.
I can see how it would be benneficial to own stake your claim on the world wide web.
I can see how it would be benneficial to own stake your claim on the world wide web.
Russian entrepreneur buys vodka.com domain
Billionaire behind Russia's biggest vodka maker paid $3 million
updated 6:45 p.m. CT, Fri., Dec. 15, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO - The billionaire Russian entrepreneur behind Russia's biggest vodka maker has paid $3 million to acquire the vodka.com domain, part of a bid to expand into the U.S. market, a broker said on Thursday.
Sedo.com, the Web domain brokering unit that is part of Germany's United Internet AG, said it had acted as the sales agent in the deal.
Conglomerate Russian Standard Co., controlled by Roustam Tariko, paid $3 million to an undisclosed seller in a deal completed Dec. 4, according to a Sedo.com spokesman. A New York-based spokeswoman for Russian Standard confirmed the $3 million price tag.
Russian Standard entered the U.S. market in September 2005 with its Imperia brand. The recipe for Imperia is said to have been discovered by 19th century Russian scientist Dimitri Mendeleev, inventor of chemistry's periodic table of elements.
Russian Standard Co. controls not only two-thirds of the sales of premium vodka in Russia, but also owns Russian Standard Bank, the country's largest private bank.
Vodka.com's price tag is among the highest ever revealed for a generic Web domain. In May, diamond.com reportedly sold for $7.5 million to jewelry retailer Ice.com. Business.com sold for $7.5 million in 1999.
Earlier this year, a source told Reuters that Sex.com had sold for around $12 million to a Boston-based company called Escom LLC, although the exact figure has never been disclosed.
06-03-2008, 04:59 PM
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Buying up domain names can pay off - how's 3 million for vodka.com?
Russian entrepreneur buys vodka.com domain
Billionaire behind Russia's biggest vodka maker paid $3 million
updated 6:45 p.m. CT, Fri., Dec. 15, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO - The billionaire Russian entrepreneur behind Russia's biggest vodka maker has paid $3 million to acquire the vodka.com domain, part of a bid to expand into the U.S. market, a broker said on Thursday.
Sedo.com, the Web domain brokering unit that is part of Germany's United Internet AG, said it had acted as the sales agent in the deal.
Conglomerate Russian Standard Co., controlled by Roustam Tariko, paid $3 million to an undisclosed seller in a deal completed Dec. 4, according to a Sedo.com spokesman. A New York-based spokeswoman for Russian Standard confirmed the $3 million price tag.
Russian Standard entered the U.S. market in September 2005 with its Imperia brand. The recipe for Imperia is said to have been discovered by 19th century Russian scientist Dimitri Mendeleev, inventor of chemistry's periodic table of elements.
Russian Standard Co. controls not only two-thirds of the sales of premium vodka in Russia, but also owns Russian Standard Bank, the country's largest private bank.
Vodka.com's price tag is among the highest ever revealed for a generic Web domain. In May, diamond.com reportedly sold for $7.5 million to jewelry retailer Ice.com. Business.com sold for $7.5 million in 1999.
Earlier this year, a source told Reuters that Sex.com had sold for around $12 million to a Boston-based company called Escom LLC, although the exact figure has never been disclosed.
Russian entrepreneur buys vodka.com domain
Billionaire behind Russia's biggest vodka maker paid $3 million
updated 6:45 p.m. CT, Fri., Dec. 15, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO - The billionaire Russian entrepreneur behind Russia's biggest vodka maker has paid $3 million to acquire the vodka.com domain, part of a bid to expand into the U.S. market, a broker said on Thursday.
Sedo.com, the Web domain brokering unit that is part of Germany's United Internet AG, said it had acted as the sales agent in the deal.
Conglomerate Russian Standard Co., controlled by Roustam Tariko, paid $3 million to an undisclosed seller in a deal completed Dec. 4, according to a Sedo.com spokesman. A New York-based spokeswoman for Russian Standard confirmed the $3 million price tag.
Russian Standard entered the U.S. market in September 2005 with its Imperia brand. The recipe for Imperia is said to have been discovered by 19th century Russian scientist Dimitri Mendeleev, inventor of chemistry's periodic table of elements.
Russian Standard Co. controls not only two-thirds of the sales of premium vodka in Russia, but also owns Russian Standard Bank, the country's largest private bank.
Vodka.com's price tag is among the highest ever revealed for a generic Web domain. In May, diamond.com reportedly sold for $7.5 million to jewelry retailer Ice.com. Business.com sold for $7.5 million in 1999.
Earlier this year, a source told Reuters that Sex.com had sold for around $12 million to a Boston-based company called Escom LLC, although the exact figure has never been disclosed.
I'd never heard of a website registering 2 domain names before. Google and Amazon don't, but Yahoo does.
06-03-2008, 08:35 PM
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Google does... I imagine amazon does as well. Google has registered several different domain names, all of which redirect back to google (or a related site).
Here are some examples:
www.gogle.com
www.google.net
www.google.biz
www.googlee.com
www.gooogle.com
06-04-2008, 06:52 AM
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Google does... I imagine amazon does as well. Google has registered several different domain names, all of which redirect back to google (or a related site).
Here are some examples:
www.gogle.com
www.google.net
www.google.biz
www.googlee.com
www.gooogle.com
Here are some examples:
www.gogle.com
www.google.net
www.google.biz
www.googlee.com
www.gooogle.com
