Don't Leave Out the "S"

While surfing to find a new customer service person, I decided to hit Craigslist.com since people are often posting their availability. Craigslist is a website where you can post everything from a job to a car to a pallet of duct tape. It is free which makes it even more appealing than Ebay. The problem is, I left off the "s" in the middle.

I don't really have a problem with free enterprise. I have a problem when free enterprise takes me to a place I just don't need to go while I am at work. Craigslist is not the first.

In the days when Bill Clinton made a necktie for Monica Lewinski, the White House also had a one-off problem. One-off is a term used for grabbing a common domain and buying the domain that may have a spelling error or a common domain root. The White House website is www.whitehouse.gov. In the days of "defining sex" in the White House, www.whitehouse.com was a porno site. So all of the schoolkids managed to get a free show for going to the white house.

Someone has since changed the domain to a people search page, but www.whitehouse.org was still available for creative usage...and it is. A spoof from the whitehouse website, it has a great sense of political humor.

This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). If you really feel the need and have more time on your hands than I do to write this blog entry, spoof ME! I would imagine N8iv.com or .us is still available. Do your best! (throwing down the gauntlet)

At least do better than these jokers did:

This is a list of the top 20 domains sold in 2006.

1. Red.org - redirects to joinred.com
2. Football.us - redirects to 1football.com
3. Brown.com - parked
4. NewYork.info - affiliate ads for New York tours
5. XS.net - nothing
6. Fun.mobi - parked, powered by Google
7. CD.com - parked
8. Blue.com - parked
9. Stockquotes.mobi - parked
10. Sex.net - parked
11. Wifi.com - developing community website, 151 members so far
12. Cameras.com - parked
13. SexEducation.com - parked
14. Prize.com - parked, powered by Google
15. Wrestling.com - parked
16. CD.net - parked, powered by Overture
17. Flowers.mobi - parked
18. 20.com - password protected
19. Scouts.com - “Under construction”
20. Bike.com - parked, powered by Google

I have to say, if I am going to buy one of these domains, I am going to actually PUT something on it.

Did you know...

The highest price ever paid for a domain name is $7.5 million for business.com. It is a search site.

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