"By holding these great domain names, you are stifling innovation!”

[equity78]

Kevin Ham once dubbed “The man who owns the Internet” in a 2007 Business 2.0 article was told he was stifling innovation by one of the people who invented the Internet. Ham writes in a blog post on Venture.com that he was excited to meet Sir Tim Berners-Lee in Vancouver at a TED conference. Filled […]

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[sharastar]

Well said by Kevin Ham.I too Love the Idea of Leasing Domains till the Startup have the necessary capital to Buy the Domains for it's Good Price.What about you @equity78 on Domain Leasing to Buy Method?

 

[equity78]

Well said by Kevin Ham.I too Love the Idea of Leasing Domains till the Startup have the necessary capital to Buy the Domains for it's Good Price.What about you @equity78 on Domain Leasing to Buy Method?

I don't know that I love Kevin's model for the startup, if you go with the cheapest route you need to place their name in the footer.

 

[Not a robot]

Interesting idea.

Leasing a domain is not the same as leasing an office. When you lease an office, you can move anytime and just set up mail forwarding. When you lease a domain, you are actually leasing a “name”, the one thing that you should absolutely own.

The solution was probably novel when it started. But now financing is becoming a standard feature on many platform. For business, financing is probably better than perpetual leasing.

 

[DaveTw]

Do you think that development of the other gTLDs would be as dynamic, as it is recently, if dotcoms were cheap?
I don't say it is for sure - but it is possible that high value of certain domains increased the innovation.