How to Make a Living in the Domain Business - Page 6

ThreeD · 07-16-2005, 01:33 AM

Originally Posted by Midano

How do you think this will work on hyphenated domains? IDNs? Domains with numbers ("4" or "four")? Different words that sound similar ("four" or "for")?
When you say "IP", will it be recognized as "IP", "eye P" or "I pee"?

Keyboards are here to stay as long as there's no real Artificial Intelligence. And it's not going to happen anytime soon.

They'll figure out a way around that, no worries. Just a matter of adding an extra letter or comment when you have a number or hyphen. When you say a zip code you say "Zip49673" and the computer recognizes it as a zipcode or whatever...I don't know, I'm a web guru, if I developing voice recognition I'd probably be working for Logitech now

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By the way, you ever been to CeBit? You'd be amazed when you see what's lurkin in the tech/IT background!

admans · 07-16-2005, 02:22 AM

nice article dan ..really helpfull...now i gonna do the same trick ur following and share the results i get...

btw..do spare some time and post more such awesome articles again..thanx!

primacomputer · 07-16-2005, 03:48 AM

Originally Posted by ThreeD

By the way, you ever been to CeBit? You'd be amazed when you see what's lurkin in the tech/IT background!

I've built some of these high tech mock-ups used at CeBit and Comdex. You'd be amazed at what's lurking in the background to create the illusion that these devices work so well

mholt · 10-22-2005, 10:32 PM

Can I bring up a slightly old topic - this is a great thread!

NuPagady · 10-23-2005, 07:21 AM

Originally Posted by compuXP

Can I bring up a slightly old topic - this is a great thread!

Thanks for bringing it up

I was not a member when it was posted, so I have noticed this thread only now. Great article & comments.
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By the way, I was looking for typos using similar method - I was typing myself and asking my brother to type. I have some profitable typos already and I hope to get more.

Simsi · 10-23-2005, 10:03 AM

A long thread but very interesting. So many points have been made, including one or two of those below, but i feel obliged to leave my observations in various directions. A bit devils advocate...just for debate purposes you understand!

1) Is domain-typo registration really an "ethical" practice or are we prepared to gloss over that with reasons and excuses as we are all trying to make money from this? For example, how would you feel if you owned a brand, spent lots of money and someone redirected traffic this way? Not illegal i know, but I can't help but feel it's one of those things that if it wasn't there, the world may just be a slightly better place. And yes, i do own one or two typos and am being hypocritical

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2) Poker - riding the crest of a wave? Dot-com boom? Partygaming share price? Get my drift?
3) $70k is a lot, but i earn about 75% that off just one affiliate domain. No legal issues, good content, less futureshock issues maybe? Would have thought this was a better investment in effort?
4) On the issue of voice recognition, initially I think it will lead to more "typos" - not less! But even if it is 100% accurate, there are many times in the day when i dont want to/cant talk. And imagine an office full of people talking to their PCs

Cheers

Simmo!

sjp · 10-23-2005, 10:14 AM

Your method for finding typos is very interesting (and awesome). I already spent some time thinking about stuff like probabilistic algorithms to find commonly mistyped words. It never occured to me that I could maybe just write the word 500 times and look at the results. Sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees.

Shorty · 10-23-2005, 10:15 AM

Reading that article was inspirational. I wonder how heavily other professional domainers rely on typo domains?

primacomputer · 10-24-2005, 01:49 AM

Originally Posted by Simsi

4) On the issue of voice recognition, initially I think it will lead to more "typos" - not less! But even if it is 100% accurate, there are many times in the day when i dont want to/cant talk. And imagine an office full of people talking to their PCs

It would lead to more “typos” in the sense that the speech system would “type” the “wrong thing” and people would end up at the wrong site. Someone would say “NetFlix” and the computer might hear “Net Flicks”. At least in the best case scenario. In reality it would probably hear “Networks”, so you'd end up at “Networks.com”
But these wouldn't be typos in the traditional sense, and it certainly wouldn't lead to more “typo” domain names. What it could lead to is widespread usage of names like RentDVDsOnline.com. Perhaps the natural pauses between words would come to be recognised as hyphens and Rent-DVDs-Online.com would be the name of choice.

There is another aspect to this as well. If people will be talking to their computers the computers will probably be talking back. Why talk into your cel phone to go online and order a DVD and then thumb through links on a tiny screen. Seems to me you'd have the phone read the content to you through your bluetooth headset while the phone is tucked away in your pocket. So you now have a computer reading you the name “NetFlix”, and you have no idea how it's spelled.

TTS is a far more mature and wide spread technology than voice recognition. While I'm working Anjali is whispering in my ear giving me stats such as who hosts a potential clients website, how long it's been online, what other sites are owned by the same company, etc. Because of this I'm acutely aware of many problems involved in communicating domain names by speech alone. This would also contribute to people avoiding “typos” or funnily spelt names and going for a name which can be spoken and heard with the highest degree of accuracy.
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Originally Posted by Shorty

Reading that article was inspirational. I wonder how heavily other professional domainers rely on typo domains?

It depends on the domainer. There are a lot of major players out there that have a lot of typos. There are others that don't have any.

Robson · 10-24-2005, 02:57 AM

What a great thread, thanks for the information everyone!

07-16-2005, 02:22 AM	#127 (permalink)
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10-23-2005, 10:03 AM	#131 (permalink)
Simsi NamePros Regular Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 266	A long thread but very interesting. So many points have been made, including one or two of those below, but i feel obliged to leave my observations in various directions. A bit devils advocate...just for debate purposes you understand! 1) Is domain-typo registration really an "ethical" practice or are we prepared to gloss over that with reasons and excuses as we are all trying to make money from this? For example, how would you feel if you owned a brand, spent lots of money and someone redirected traffic this way? Not illegal i know, but I can't help but feel it's one of those things that if it wasn't there, the world may just be a slightly better place. And yes, i do own one or two typos and am being hypocritical ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=100747 2) Poker - riding the crest of a wave? Dot-com boom? Partygaming share price? Get my drift? 3) $70k is a lot, but i earn about 75% that off just one affiliate domain. No legal issues, good content, less futureshock issues maybe? Would have thought this was a better investment in effort? 4) On the issue of voice recognition, initially I think it will lead to more "typos" - not less! But even if it is 100% accurate, there are many times in the day when i dont want to/cant talk. And imagine an office full of people talking to their PCs Cheers Simmo! __________________ Online Casino UK \| Online Slots \| Slot Tournaments \| Online Casino \| USA Casinos \| Online Casinos & Slots

10-24-2005, 02:57 AM	#135 (permalink)
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10-22-2005, 10:32 PM	#129 (permalink)
mholt DNOA Member Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 5,040	Can I bring up a slightly old topic - this is a great thread!

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sjp NamePros Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Andromeda Posts: 136	Your method for finding typos is very interesting (and awesome). I already spent some time thinking about stuff like probabilistic algorithms to find commonly mistyped words. It never occured to me that I could maybe just write the word 500 times and look at the results. Sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees.

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