Dreaming up a new business starts with a domain name, and some entrepreneurs have hundreds of them.
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... many entrepreneurs have secret caches of unused websites — in some cases hundreds of domain names — kicking around. Each domain is like a beautiful little entrepreneurial fantasy, a kernel of business idea, just waiting for its owner to find the time or funds to get started (and presumably, to someday do the hard work of, you know, actually building that business). With domains costing as little as $2 to $20 per year to register, it’s tempting to buy up a website for even the vaguest outlines of a business.
“Looking through an entrepreneur’s domain portfolio is a bit like browsing through an old notebook,” says Thies Lindenthal, a lecturer at the University of Cambridge who studies the domain market. Although few of those ideas will bubble up into real businesses, says Lindenthal, “domain registrations provide an unfiltered snapshot of our collective entrepreneurial creativity. Or madness, in many cases.”
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... many entrepreneurs have secret caches of unused websites — in some cases hundreds of domain names — kicking around. Each domain is like a beautiful little entrepreneurial fantasy, a kernel of business idea, just waiting for its owner to find the time or funds to get started (and presumably, to someday do the hard work of, you know, actually building that business). With domains costing as little as $2 to $20 per year to register, it’s tempting to buy up a website for even the vaguest outlines of a business.
“Looking through an entrepreneur’s domain portfolio is a bit like browsing through an old notebook,” says Thies Lindenthal, a lecturer at the University of Cambridge who studies the domain market. Although few of those ideas will bubble up into real businesses, says Lindenthal, “domain registrations provide an unfiltered snapshot of our collective entrepreneurial creativity. Or madness, in many cases.”
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