I see quite a handful women domainers in here & around other reputable domain forums, so I dont know why do you still feel "it is a male dominated skill"..
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The keyword here is "handful." There are very few female domainers.
Sometimes I just shake my head at the sexism and male chauvinism that populates domaining. For that reason alone, I do not attend domain conferences. Playboy bunnies. Body painting. Exploitation of young women. Sales of websites on the edge of child porn.
Quite a bitter pill for the few female domainers who hang in there.
Now, about .tel: the BT news is, indeed, good news.
However, last night on
America's Got Talent, I noticed that Fremantle Media is still using clunky telephone numbers for call-in voting. In fact, the emcee (whose name escapes me) had to remind the audience that they would be calling an 866 number (and not an 800 number). A simple .tel contact could have been a one-stop point of contact (AmericasGotTalent or AGT dot tel) with the three options on the site: call-in, online, and sms voting. As it turned out, AGT had to flash the three different options on screen. IMHO, it was very confusing. Each contestant (12 total) had a different sms number
and phone number. The website for online voting was simply NBC [dot] com.
.Tel would have been perfect for this fast-paced show; we are fast arriving at a time when many cell phones are now connected through the internet, so a .tel url would be perfect.
While I appreciate the BT news and embrace it, .tel will truly arrive when Verizon, Sprint, and AT & T develop a deal with Telnic to bundle .tel in their services.
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Online self employment just isn't the sort of thing that attracts many working woman types for some reason. I've known some exceptions here and there, but not many.
I've always attributed it to a desire to work in a more social environment than sitting in a room alone at home all day. There is a much higher percentage of nerdy, anti-social men who have no problem at all staying at the computer for 12 hours straight.
There is definitely a revolving door of housewife types fooling around and exiting quickly though.
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This "housewife type" has been around domaining for over two years.
This "housewife type" also has an outside job and has just won a major award in her primary field.
So, Mr Dub a Dub, please don't stereotype about women and their role in domaining. It makes you look like a throwback to the
Neanderthal era.
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