Shane
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I'm reading 'Killing Fairfax' at the moment. It's a great read, which focuses on how Fairfax was smashed by a couple of little startup websites...
I thought these two excerpts would be of particular interest to domainers:
Imagine picking up realestate.com.au or carsales.com.au as hand registrations? They couldn't have imagined at the time they would form the basis of a pair of companies with a combined market cap of $13 billion.
And here's a thought... If punters were free to speculate on com.au domains back then, and both of those had already been picked up by domainers, do you think the founders would have stumped up the extra cash, or would they have just gone with different options? It could've changed the face of two of our most successful online businesses.
I thought these two excerpts would be of particular interest to domainers:
Imagine picking up realestate.com.au or carsales.com.au as hand registrations? They couldn't have imagined at the time they would form the basis of a pair of companies with a combined market cap of $13 billion.
And here's a thought... If punters were free to speculate on com.au domains back then, and both of those had already been picked up by domainers, do you think the founders would have stumped up the extra cash, or would they have just gone with different options? It could've changed the face of two of our most successful online businesses.