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- uttles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I think he could make a sh*tload selling subdomains.
motorola.wiki.com
gop.wiki.com
ford.wiki.com
britney.wiki.com
etc - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://piracy.wiki.com
Yay, I got a wiki with a cool subdomain! - Sagarian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3somebody ring the bell we just hit the top.
- keesj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4why would someone want a subdomain when they can register their own domains (e.g. www.britneywiki.com) and company's use their own domain names (e.g. wiki.ford.com)
- cramd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i don't see this really as a sign for the next bubble. In '96 people where paying millions to silly ideas that you could see had to be bad ideas. I think that purchasing a high traffic domain name is more like buying a building on the side of a busy freeway to be used to post ads. His plan is to use the existing traffic to that domain to route to something that might just be a solid business.
In the late 90's i sat beside a "kid" who owned an online sword company. He had gone public made millions, was showing pictures of his DT San Fran office - now that seems like a bad idea. Sure there are people that are going to buy swords online, but enough to recover the millions people invested? argtghhh that is when I new it was over.. - keesj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wouldn't it be cheaper to introduce and new term and hype it?
- concept, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2me too: http://political.wiki.com
open to all users as well. - foolonthehill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The tooltip for this article on Netvibes read:
"Entrepreneur John Gotts has paid almost $3 million to purchase the domain wiki.com. With skeptics saying that he ’ll back out of the deal through a con"
... Sounds about right. - quickjack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Damn, I wish i could go back to '96 and pick up domain names at cost.
- johngotts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2We will help people monetize their own wikis at TheirWikiName.wiki.com. We will add search features to allow people to search through the Wikis. We are now close to 10,000 wiki sub-domains in the first two days and they are being snapped up at about one every five to ten seconds and it is midnight here PST. When we add in the e-commerce capabilities and allow taxfiling.wiki.com, golf.wiki.com and others to monetize their mini-site within wiki.com we will change the way wikis are used currently. Also by not making it a free-for-all when it comes to editing there will be more control over the quality of what is posted within a wiki and bad sites can be removed. There is a land rush happening right now and it is free for all to enjoy. With http://www.spamsafe.com and http://www.pcsafe.com my father, myself and our employees have been defending Web surfers from spam, popups, spyware and other malware for about five years and currently are pushing over ten million downloads in the last half decade. So don't worry about those being ways to monetization as some have speculated. Nobody will ever be spammed by us and your emails are safe. It is only when everyone wins and we allow users to make their own money from their sub-domain that we will start making money ourselves. Selling extra server space for large files, photos, videos, etc. within someone's wiki is certainly something we are considering, but personally I want to help people monetize their sub-domain so that the creators of content make money and that is why we have started this community. Clearly there is demand as the domains are flying off the shelf literally every few seconds now and the best ones are getting grabbed up fast. Thanks for all of your interest and I hope you join us at http://www.wiki.com. Cheers! John Gotts
- wilhoitm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Based on .Net/Mono Yuck!
- mephitix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't really understand how this is going to work. A "wiki" doesn't mean anything to common people. On the "what's a wiki" page they list several things, like project management, event management, storing documents, basically everything in web 2.0 mashed up together. Common people can attach to single things, like "oh, this is a site that will manage events" or "this is a site that will manage my various projects". It's hard to define a single persona for something like this.
- Scientifik, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Fire up the time machine boys, we're going back to '96!!
- pepperwood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1can anybody else figure out how to use this wiki? it's complete crap. Jotspot and PBWIKI are much, much better. this is domain squatter crap.
- VeroZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hate domain squatters.
- concept, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nice, i got a decent subdomain for wiki.com too.
- useful, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4web2.0 comes crashing down in 3 2...
- frackowiak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I absolutely agree that the interface is _terrible_ and I do not even want to explore the options. And the domain is not high-traffic at all. It just has a short name ;-)
Somehow a service with a similar name (WikiDot at http://www.wikidot.com) is much cooler in the long term, at lest for a tech-geek. And as far as I know it has been developed for less than $4000 (in Poland) - compared to over $3m ;-) Guess which one will show profits first ;-)
And of course - PBWiki, Wikispaces and Wikia of course are all much friendlier (cleaner!) than the wiki.com interface (which somehow resembles the crappy thing from pages.google.com)
One good thing for all of us: if wiki.com is going to promote the word "wiki" - that is good. Because wikis are cool in general. But sorry - wiki.com simply is not. It is not a wiki in the first place ;-) - randomvictim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I just made mine, and can't go to it. Anyone else have this problem?
- frackowiak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Sorry, the link above got corrupted: it should be http://www.wikidot.com
There should be preview for comments ;-) - cheers - robert - uttles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Worst user icon ever.
/Go Tigers!!! - acsseo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I wonder how this will ever work, sounds like someone's pipe dream.
- pterodactyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0“domains are magic”
whatever happened to a quality product? Is magic the new quality?! - snowbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i hear you. one of us should go see if 'hopelessromantics.wiki.com' is still available... (maybe we can sell it for 3M someday.)
- BOBCHINACD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0bad news
- elastikos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0What like whacki.com ?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Who cares, I use adblock, they wont make nothing off of me
- NapoleonGold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Wiki whored themselves out for that measly amount of money.
For the love of God----their interface sucks, but their info is priceless and it is now out of the hands of "the people"
Time Warner makes the dictionary I guess, ohh ya with the help of Disneyland.
Gezz I am just being facitious.
and yes I spell nothing "write"
so comment on my speeling and waist al of our time *Please* - NapoleonGold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@Snowbaby
Ya it is ugly.
I do enjoy the info on WIKI, it just happens to not be very pretty. Not surprising.
Dugg ya one cause it is a valid point.
thx - snowbaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0have you actually tried to find a wiki 'on topic' (like on taxes, on april 13th...)? they're scattered all over hell or aren't on google at all. wikipedia is a warm and fuzzy thing, but the smartest guys won't slave building a wiki for no benefit, and just to have them mauled by some stranger? plus, not everyone wants to take advice from 'anonymous'--they want to know its someone they can trust. stephen colbert nailed wikipedia with 'wikiality.' i can't wait to scam free tax advice from taxguru.wiki.com. if he sounds like he knows his stuff and he's got his ad up, he's gonna be buried in clients. don't hate the playa...love the game.
- NapoleonGold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Why the Petuli??
- NapoleonGold, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0DAmnit I am drunk, and sittin on four yellow/white pages drink'in beer I began think'in;
But really does common decency need to be thrown out the window just cause were anonymous (sorta)????
Well heck if I know; but this place on the intratube was important enough for me to actually sign up & comment (for god knows what)? But I think this is one of the few places to talk. Amongst the huge amount of random banter that floods us in front of a computer everyday. - NapoleonGold, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0just wait for the Digg Down
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