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Slate Magazine has an interesting article today covering the report that all four letter .com domain names are now registered. The article was written in response to research performed by WhoAPI. The research only covers four letter .com domain names and not domain names with hyphens or numbers in them.
If you are thinking that this sounds familiar, you wouldn’t be mistaken. On DNForum in late October and early November of 2007, people were discussing that
It appears that Salesforce.com may have acquired the Community.com domain name, as the company is now listed the registrant of the domain name. According to Whois records as of October 15, 2013, the Community.com domain name is now owned by Salesforce.com. The Whois records from October 14, 2013 and prior show the owner of Community.com as CBS Interactive, Inc. Prior to that, it was owned by CNET, which was acquired by CBS Interactive, Inc.
Based on the fact that I didn’t see Community.com listed for sale anywhere, nor did I see any record or report of a sale, I can only assume the domain name changed hands privately for an undisclosed figure. If I had to guess, I would say that Community.com is worth seven figures. I reached out to the Whois contacts at Salesforce for more information, but the lead contact is currently traveling.
There are a couple of ways I think the domain name may be used by Salesforce. First, and probably the most likely is the Salesforce
I asked this a while back and the answer was a fairly resounding “yes,” but in response to a few emails and comments lately, I will ask again if I should keep the “like” and “dislike” button found on each comment.
Personally, I like the buttons because it allows people to chime in without having to actually write something. It’s an easy way to participate. On the other hand, there are plenty of negative people out there who seem to enjoy hitting the dislike button for some reason. Maybe they’re messing around or perhaps they find some sort of strange pleasure in putting someone else down anonymously.
It seems the most complaints come from
I get quite a bit of email from people asking me questions about domain names. I don’t offer domain consulting services, and I thought that if I am going to spend personal time answering these questions, I might as well share the answers publicly for the benefit of others. I also figured that I could sell advertising to be compensated for the time I spend helping others instead of working on my own business. DomainQuestions.com was born.
Aside from a couple of ads from my blog advertisers when DomainQuestions.com launched, I never really got around to selling advertising on the website. I didn’t feel comfortable
There’s a funny thread on Reddit asking, “Can you come up with funny film titles by removing one letter from existing film titles?” I thought it would be fun to do something like that with domain names. Of course, it would be easy to do something like that with any domain name, so to make it a bit more “real” I invite you to do this with one of your domain names.
Here are a few of my domain names that would be funny if a letter is removed:
