May 28th, 2007 by andy
Last night on CNBC on the show “On the Money”, they ran a clip about Kevin Ham and ‘domaining’. It wasn’t the most flattering light to shine on this sector of making money online. Have you ever gone to type in a domain and ended it with .cm as a typo instead of .com? It lands you on agoga.com, which is a parked domain. That’s Kevin Ham. He makes a boatload off of that. He also owns about 300,000 .com addresses. Needless to say, he make a lot of money.
When I tell people about domaining, most usually automatically connect it to typosquatting. Like Yaoho.com, microsogt.com, etc… To say that is ‘domaining’ is like saying SEO is meta tags.
May 7th, 2007 by andy
I remember back in around 2000-2001 how overwhelmed the internet industry had become with verbal diarrhea subterfuge. Now the ‘net is back and hopping and with the return of the hops comes the return of the trots.
“We utilize best of breed technologies” – Thank God you told me, otherwise I would have assumed you used crap.
“We are a leading provider of…” If you have 20 race horses and 19 are in the exact same position and the 20th dropped dead coming out of the gate, aren’t you still leading?
“We specialize in the deployment of mission-critical advertising…” In business, if the advertising isn’t mission-critical, it’s a charity donation.
I swear, I half expect my old Director of Marketing to come walking into my office barking about Soup-to-nut solutions any minute now!
One last thing: Tchotchkes!
