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THIS IS A PARODY: The year was 1975, 8 Track tapes were all the rage and I had 8Track (dot) net, it was a smart move on my part to register the .net domain a few years before in 1972, everybody was still into vinyl albums but I was sure 8 Track Tapes would take off, they were the future, of this I was sure, and in 1975 it turned out I was right, albums were old school, 8 Track Tape was new and cool, and I had my Panasonic 8 Track Detonator and my KC and the Sunshine Band 8 Track Tape blasting in it, so the future looked bright.
In 1972 when I hand reg’d this domain the .com was still available but I registered the .net, the “internet” was brand new and .net made sense, who knew what .com meant, nobody did, it wasn’t even a word yet, it seemed like a strange term at the time, so obviously I went with the .net.
Unfortunately I turned down a $1.3 million offer in 1975 for 8Track (dot) net, (that is about $5.8 million in 2014 dollars), at the time I believed domains were the future and .net and 8 Tracks were riding that wave so I wanted $3 million, I wasn’t about to just give it away to the first big offer that came my way…
Here are the domain picks dropping on February 13th 2014:
AdultChatSite.com – Talk about grown up issues
AmericaSki.com – Two big words plural would be better
B2BInfo.com – Business to business information
BestWineCooler.com – Could be the drink or a wine fridge
BondageSexTube.com – I love bondage sex, domains I mean
DepressionTherapist.com – Maybe this can help with the depression, $4.9k Estibot
DiscoveryWorld.com – A site on the .org, lots of others using the term also
DoPark.com – Maybe could be short for Domain Parking, Sedo is Sell Domains right?
EnvironmentalInspections.com – Get this for somebody in West Virginia, they can use it
HindiSMS.com – $34k Estibot and tons of searches, don’t ask me why I don’t know
HIVAndMe.com – Not me thankfully but good name for a site on living with HIV
LouisPasteur.com – He invented pasteurization and discovered the germ theory of disease
Loveos.com – It sounds like a breakfast cereal that the kids would love
MyCrowdFunding.com – Can you people send me some funds so I can do something big
Bellicose.net
FashionPlate.net
GreenStrategies.net
SexInformation.net
Spotlights.net
SpringFlowers.net
BlogAdvertising.org
DomainDrops.org
EcoFunding.org
FoodManufacturer.org
FuelSavings.org
ITResource.org
Journalistic.org
Reinforce.org
Comatose.me
Eavesdrop.me
iPost.me
Oddball.me
Prostitutes.me
Prowess.me
Rendevous.me
BestFriend.tv
Page.tv
Showoff.tv
AntiFreeze.info
Avenida.info
Esoteric.info
Humid.info
Outlaw.info
Range.info
Salts.info
Sams.info
TeaCup.info
Make sure you also check out Domain Shane’s Big List of names and Domaining.com for some other great domain blogs and domain name lists.
Domain of the day: CDsAndCassettes.com – Make me an Offer!
Thanks for visiting…
I think for this industry, timing is almost everything
1975? you were regging domains n 1975?
it is parody/allegory, do not look dates, just facts
No Owen, I didn’t get 8Track (dot) net in 1972.
It was a joke…
Mark is a real forerunner, always ahead of the times, didn’t you know? lol 😉
Timing is the key in any type of investment indeed
I can only agree with Manos.
On a different note, Mark, a few days ago it came back to my mind when you were talking about a couple of “About+term” names you sold, so I’ve purchased what at the moment is my only “About+”, AboutJournalism.com, I think it’s a good one if you wanna talk about … Journalism maybe? 😉
Today’s tip: if any of you own a domain with “olympic” in it, just forget to park it … even if your domain is not infringing on any TM and you can easily prove it.
I was told that “ICANN and Google have decided that anything with Olympic or Olympics is now considered to be a trademark, no matter what.”
Didn’t know that now Google and ICANN can decide what is a TM and what is not … lol …
I know that Google can accept or not a domain for parking with a “certain” degree of discretion, but when you are saying that a domain infringe on a TM you have to prove it, otherwise it’s just another excuse to justify your excessive discretionary power …
Imho WIPO should make it clear that this practices are unfair, to say the least, and that ICANN and Google have no whatsoever authority to judge on TM issues.
So it’s bad enough I have to figure out whether domain gang is fake and now the daily dot and others copying the onion with Justin Beiber castration while in custody articles… now you!
I’m sorry Owen, I figured the 1972 and 1975 dates were a dead giveaway…
vinyl albums is coming back strong and I have a couple of boxes of LPS and a record player
RECORDLP.COM for sale
I probably overstepped my bounds, I suppose I should leave the parodies for DomainGang from now on. It’s just I was talking with a tech guy and he had registered some domains back in the mid ’90’s, he wasn’t big in the domain thing but he still reg’d a few as investments but he got .net’s, he was sure .net would be the default extension, and they weren’t that good.
It made me realize even if you were at the right place at the right time you still might miss out, so I thought I would write something funny that parodied that situation…
taking the wrong thing at specific time is also bad timing i think