# I need a domain name. Heeellllpppp!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-domain-name-heeellllpppp/15991 "2000-04-13T20:47:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![inertia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@inertia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inertia)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-domain-name-heeellllpppp/15991/41 "2000-04-14T16:45:00Z")
Oh, so can anyone think of something they’s like to see a web page built around? Preferrably something that hasn’t already been done (that’s asking a lot I know.) ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-domain-name-heeellllpppp/15991/42 "2000-04-15T05:40:00Z")
Seems like WIGGUM would like to see a Tina Yothers web site… [http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/007255.html](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/007255.html) Chaim Mattis Keller ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-domain-name-heeellllpppp/15991/43 "2000-04-15T05:46:00Z")
inertia says: > [@](#): > > …I think I’ll pass on the homorrhoidal cream page. Splort! “Homorrhoidal”? Deadly butt inflamation? Same sex ass nodules? Oh, the mind reels. Wait…there’s a couple of suggestions for ya, inertia - [www.deadlybuttinflamation.com](http://www.deadlybuttinflamation.com) and [www.samesexassnodules.com.](http://www.samesexassnodules.com.) Guaranteed hit generators! * * * Sig! Sig a Sog! Sig it loud! Sig it Strog! – Karen Carpenter with a head cold ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-domain-name-heeellllpppp/15991/44 "2000-04-15T16:17:00Z")
“I recommend just buying [www.cool.com.](http://www.cool.com.) You’ll have to save your pennies, though. The owner just turned down 38 million for it.” Oh, I don’t believe that. I looked at what’s related for that site, it only comes in around top 45,000th of the web. Less than 400 links to it on the web, too. Someone’s exaggerating on that price. inertia, if you want to get your money back someday & you want to do something no one has done before, try using your city name or someone important in your city. Like the mayors name. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-domain-name-heeellllpppp/15991/45 "2000-04-15T20:43:00Z")
Sorry, but it’s true. I just read a long article about the owner of [www.cool.com,](http://www.cool.com,) who’s a grad student. The value of the name isn’t because of what’s there right now (he claims it’s just filler, basically to keep the name in the spotlight), but the potential of what someone could do with a name so easily remembered and recognized. He was in fact offered 38 million. He’s been getting offers on that name for years, for ever-increasing amounts. He’s turned them all down because he’s looking for venture capital so he can start a company himself to exploit the name. The article I read said that this latest offer is the most money ever offered for a domain name. The previous record holder was a company that paid 8 million for a domain name. And you wonder why there are so many squatters out there buying up domain names like mad and trying to sell them. Frankly, to me it’s just another indication that the internet marketplace is fundamentally nuts. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-domain-name-heeellllpppp/15991/46 "2000-04-15T23:51:00Z")
Just tried [www.cool.com](http://www.cool.com) got message ‘could not be found…’ haha poof! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-domain-name-heeellllpppp/15991.md?page=2)