doggyowner

Wow what a thread, one of the most interesting reads Ive had on NP in a long time..

Sahar Sarid mentions this thread on his blog and shares what he knows/thinks, read it here: http://www.conceptualist.com/2007/12...-the-earliest/

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Seabass

I guess he really was the first domainer in the truest sense of the word, meaning being out there as you say, unafraid, saying, "This is what I do", and then proving it by purchases.

If you read the Gary Kremen story on DNJournal.com he stated that he totally saw he future laid out for him back in 1994. He regged Sex.com and several others that were mindblowing.

So maybe we can say, Rick Schwartz was the first public domainer and Gary Kremmen was the first private domainer, until someone comes along and tells us we are wrong.


Wow, maybe it is Chris Harnett then. It would be nice if Sahar knew of a handful of the domains used by this guy.

The story about this guy sure does not sound as fun as the Gary Kremmen, Rick Schwartz, Frank Schilling, or Leland Hardy type stories.

gazzip

What a Fantastic post that was on Sahar's Blog, I just found this about him on http://www.reinvent.com/about_directors.html
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/408477-which-domainer-started-out-the-earliest.html

"According to ICANN ( Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ) , Dr. Hartnett was the largest private owner of Internet Domain Names (URL's) in the world in 1994.

His collection currently contains over 3500 "Global" domains and 28,000 other premium domain names, most of which were acquired in 1992-1996, long before most were aware of the internet and its vast potential. Dr. Hartnett also serves as Chairman of Tedhens Limited, ( www.Tedhens.com ), the oldest and largest provider of International domain names on the internet serving the international insurance, e-commerce, exchange, banking, organic and jewelry industries with world class, one-of-a-kind domain names".

Wow, - early bird or what !

great quote on his website:

"Hesitation, when one is confronted with a great business idea, is without a doubt, the single largest obstacle to wealth. It is only through dynamic action and financial risk that great fortunes are amassed and multiplied"

J.P.Morgan 1902



The Castello Brothers is also a great story too from early on

“Over the next few weeks I started using Telnet to do WhoIs checks. Just about every domain name was available. At the time all I needed was Powwow.com but as the months rolled by I noticed that many of the names I originally checked on were being registered by others. It dawned on me that I was missing out on something huge!” Michael said.

“This was now early 1995 and I quickly sent out registration requests for PalmSprings.com, Whisky.com and several others. To my surprise I was the first to register these names...

according to whois.sc (Domaintools.com) PalmSprings.com was first Created in : 1995-04-19, although it also shows it was dropped once surely not !

The Castillo Brothers story for those that have not read it > http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2006/december.htm

http://www.ccin.com/local.html



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Seabass

He may have let it drop and then reregged it immediately. There was a lot of that going on when folks did not have the money, but then later came back to reclaim a domain they had found money for.

Back in 95', and maybe up to 98', Network Solutions had a number next to the domain indicating how many times it had been dropped and reregistered.

It would read something like xxxxx.com - 6 . The number six being the number of times it had been registered. If I am correct, there was a period where you could reg a domain and they would wait for payment and many folks did not make the payment but the reg. number still stuck and advanced one more number. Sometimes it would go up to 15 regs. or more and therefore you could see the level of excitement behind a domain.

The numbers ran high on many domains b/c everyone wanted the domains but most people did not have the money to maintain all the domains they wanted.

I think I remember Tobacco,com circulating around like that, up to 12 times or something similar.

PowerUp

Which producer will want to fund a movie with no baddies and no guns?