{"id":197,"date":"2007-08-12T01:03:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T07:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/197"},"modified":"2007-08-12T01:03:37","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T07:03:37","slug":"domain-name-speculation-goldmine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/197","title":{"rendered":"Domain name speculation goldmine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm, I wonder if The Simpsons is a goldmine for domain-name speculators. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snpp.com\/episodes\/AABF11\">1999 episode<\/a>, Homer is picking through the Sunday newspaper looking for something he cares about, and reading the names of the sections aloud:<br \/>\n&#8220;Now to trim away the fat: Outlook [tosses in trash], Vista [tosses in trash], Spotlight [tosses in trash], Mosaic [tosses in trash]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though I&#8217;m sure the writers only intended it to be (partly prescient) commentary on bloated software, a smart speculator could have looked at that list and predicted the name of two future popular packages and grabbed up all the good domains, ya know, *.com, *-help.com, *-for-dummies.com, *-sucks.com, a-*-ate-my-baby.com, *-forums.com, viagra-and-*-for-fathers-day.com, learn-*.com, learn-*-underwater.com, that kind of stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm, I wonder if The Simpsons is a goldmine for domain-name speculators. In a 1999 episode, Homer is picking through the Sunday newspaper looking for something he cares about, and reading the names of the sections aloud: &#8220;Now to trim away the fat: Outlook [tosses in trash], Vista [tosses in trash], Spotlight [tosses in trash], [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,26,29,49],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-capitalism","tag-humor","tag-internet","tag-silliness","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}