[kwlug disc.] [slightly OT] "geosign" and weird business models

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

This could be another variant of "domaining" and "internet real estate".

For some reason, venture capital firms love this leechy business.

I wrote a brief overview on it here where you can see some links too.

http://baheyeldin.com/click/866/0

On 9/27/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>
>   over the last couple days, i've been reading about a company called
> "geosign" in guelph that, back in march, received $160 million in
> venture capital.  to make a long story short, geosign appears to have
> a really strange business model which involves owning over 100,000
> domains and simply driving traffic to them as much as possible and
> collecting on the hits via google and yahoo ads.
>
>   just for the fun of it, i took a quick look at just a small part of
> the geosign portfolio here:
>
>   http://www.geosign.com/portfolio.aspx
>
> and selected http://truelocal.com, and asked about finding sites
> related to "linux" in "waterloo, on".  i have no idea if you're going
> to get the same set of results i did, but i won't spoil the fun.  try
> it yourself.
>
> rday
>
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