Knight-Ridder Newspapers<\/p>\n
Miami Herald June 3, 1996<\/p>\n
Matthew Grossman collects Internet domain names as trophies.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old University of Arizona student has registered dozens of trademark names, including 7up.com, dirtdevil.com and universalstudios.com, only to give them up for token gifts.<\/p>\n
Grossman askedd for and received a case of Seven-Up and a T-shirt for giving up the name to the soft-drink maker. He got 10 amusement-park passes when he turned over knottsberryfarm.com.<\/p>\n
Some of his other transactions: a vacuum cleaner for dirtdevil.com. a case of ice cream for breyers.com, and surf wear for billabong.com.<\/p>\n
“I always ask for something that really doesn’t cost the company,” says Grossman, who says he registered about 100 names before Internic – the firm that handles domain name registrations – began charging a $100 fee.<\/p>\n
A domain name is the core of your Internet address, whether for e-mail (jdoe@domain.com) or on the Web (www.domain.com). On the Internet frontier. domain names been pretty much doled out to whomever claims them first.<\/p>\n
While Grossman ended his pursuit for trophies when claims started to cost. others have continued to grab.<\/p>\n
David Graves. business manager for Internic, says 364,000 domain names have already been registered, and 10,000 are being processed weekly. But some predict the rush will end soon.<\/p>\n
“Most of the good ones are taken,” says David Milligan, who founded a British Columbia firm called Vanity Mail Serviecs, which provides e-mail addresses and domain names.<\/p>\n
To that. Graves says yes – and no.<\/p>\n
“Among the single simple words, there might not be many left,” he notes. “But that doesn’t consider the combinations of single, simple words.” A domain name can be as long as 27 letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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