domain auctioning gone mad?
Why do I find this CNN Money/Business 2.0 article on Kevin Ham, master of Internet domain names, so depressing?
He does what he does very well. To a certain extent his work serves a purpose and society values it to the amount of some $300 million.
Perhaps it’s depressing because it speaks to some of the weaknesses of today’s Internet:
- from the users’ side – the problem of finding things
- from the business side – the insatiable desire to monetize web traffic
- from the developing world’s side – a pathetic response to the digital divide
In any case, it is a fascinating article on the value of Internet domain names.
Do you own a .com domain? Try yourdomainname.cm (don’t forget to drop the ‘o’) and see how well Ham’s ccTLD system works.
sigh…
-pmh