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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:

> 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

i was hoping khalid would contribute to the discussion since he (at
the risk of over-simplification) runs a "web site" company and, when i
first about $160 million in VC going to geosign, my first reaction
was, "how on earth can *any* web site company be worth that kind of
money??  that's just insane."  of course, that was when i assumed that
geosign *designed* web sites.

i got most of my info here:

  http://annbrocklehurstjournalism.blogspot.com/

and i spent some time yesterday following links.  at one point, i
checked out geosign's portfolio here:

  http://www.geosign.com/portfolio.aspx

and noticed they apparently owned "hockey.com".  wow, i think to
myself, that's a pretty desirable domain name, i wonder what they're
doing with it and how they're leveraging that name as a moneymaker.
go look:

  http://www.hockey.com/

i don't believe that needs any further commentary from me.

rday
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