The Information reports that Cuban wants domain name for new business.
Entrepreneur Mark Cuban apparently still believes in the power of a good domain name. He’s thinking about buying back the domain name Broadcast.com to use for a new company, The Information reports.
Cuban sold the Broadcast.com company to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999. Yahoo shuttered the company and still owns the domain name. The domain name forwards to Yahoo.com.
According to the story on The Information, Cuban wants to use the domain name for a new venture where people can pay with cryptocurrencies for the opportunity to talk to public figures and influential people. The startup itself will be funded through an Initial Coin Offering (ICO).
How this would be different from a service that lets you pay cash to talk to a public figure is a bit of a mystery.
If Cuban succeeds in buying the domain name, he won’t be the only entrepreneur to recently buy back a domain that has nostalgia. Elon Musk recently bought X.com back from PayPal.
Was anything of any real value even going on at broadcast.com when Yahoo bought it for almost $6 billion, or was it really just the sale of an idea that anyone could copy? And isn’t YouTube the great successful copy?
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what about it?
Just brings back more memories of good ole 90’s .com days. Think geniuses @yahoo paid at least $2B for that crypto (GEO stock).
At home buying excite to become excite@home. Creative. Made good money on that. And Netbank too, the first internet bank to revolutionalize the world.
Made good money trading internet stocks in college.
It’d be much easier, simpler and cheaper to use Influtize.com (Monetize your Influence) or Influtise.com or InfluKeting.com (Influence Marketing)
If I, as a nobody, pay to talk to some somebody, then that’s a private conversation between the 2 of us. Right? In other words, nothing gets broadcast.
So why Broadcast.com? Other than Mark Cuban’s own nostalgia for the name, it sounds like the brand name would be completely wrong for the concept of a private chat.
Too many different coins lately , show me the real money!
The coin market is immature. Money is made if you buy at the first private offering. This requires an invitation. Some guy put up an invitation on my old private school old boy site. Most of my classmates from there became bankers. TENT.com might be a coin compare site. Mark Cuban is not a dummy.
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The name is not good for current trends; wrong move.
Influtize.com “Monetize Your Influence” . That’s the name for it.