Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history

Re:Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history by possibilistic on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @09:22AM (#4105735)

After the initial land grab is over, will these ever reach a price where we can afford them as individuals? I'd like to own a few.

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Re:Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history by daulex on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @09:58AM (#4105931)

Depends on the company.

I don't imagine you'll be able to buy ipad.apple, but I don't see why google wouldn't start selling *.foo.

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Re:Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history by mjwalshe on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @09:37AM (#4105805)

No running a registry is not a cheap or easy endeveor (I used to be one of the owners of .coop)

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Re:Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history by ohashi on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @12:33PM (#4106835)

I would love to hear the story about .coop. Have you written about it anywhere or would you be willing to chat privately about it? my details are in my profile.

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Re:Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history by mjwalshe on Thursday June 14, 2012 @04:46AM (#4110386)

I was one the profesional servies side trying to keep poptel running - though I did sit next to the tech lead.

http://www.andrewbibby.com/socialenterprise/poptel2.html has some details. And I did have to chair a share holder meeting and put the founder in his place when we where discussing a reorg.

You coudl try contacting Malcolm Corbett hes on face book at http://www.facebook.com/malcolm.corbett.9

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Re:Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history by ohashi on Thursday June 14, 2012 @03:38PM (#4113134)

Thanks for that!

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