Salon has a great piece

Salon has a great piece this week about abandoned domain names: I come to bury IAmCarbonatedMilk.com, not to praise it. A site called Deleted Domains will tell you about domain names that are no longer being paid for, and therefore are being returned for public consumption. Go look at the Deleted Domains site… it’s hysterical. As the Salon article points out, registering domain names costs real money, so someone must have thought that these names were going to pay off. Which is sad when you look at some of these names. Some of the names are pure dot-com golden age nonsense: need a bib for your doggie? Log into doggiebibs.com. Others are out of favor: greedclub.com. Others are practical, like the watchful trio diownload.com, downkload.com, and downlioad.com, or the very reasonable faxedmail.com. You owe to yourself to go trawling through the weird stuff that people were willing to pay to own.