On 8/20/07, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
On Monday 20 August 2007 11:18, after a long battle with technology,
Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> There are ways to legally structure such a deal so that this asset
> would be unequivocally under the control of an assignee. What I find
> interesting is how few people realize that this is an option.
> Someone with a common word domain could effectively make a lot of
> money renting out subdomains in this way. -jmz
The problem is that people who aren't technical don't understand
hierarchical namespaces very well. They seem to think that namespaces
are (or should be) flat. So thisjosh.org is "easier" than
this.josh.org
(or something.) This is actually more of a psychology
problem than a technical one....
without a doubt! but I think that given the current price tags put on domain names, subdomains are probably worth a few bucks despite the inconveniences they introduce. And once the public gets comfortable with it, theres no going back. An interesting example is that in the 50s, at least in NY, phone numbers used to be written down using random letters as well as numbers. I would think that domains where the period separates each english word would be worth /something/.
-jmz