If you could go back in time to 1993, what domains would you register?

[bgmv]

cars.com, miami.com, bgmv.com (own it now) and ben.com

 

[PrezKennedy]

Kennedy.com, Matt.com, Matthew.com, USA.com

 

[Deleted member 111831]

poker.com - owning that name today as a one-man operation means you never have to work again, simply on natural traffic and affiliate income.

 

[grcorp]

Seeing as how .com comes from the word "commercial", derivative of "commerce", I would register the one word that commerce revolves around; money.

The most successful business on the internet right now is google. They branded themselves around a single misspelling of an unheard of number. It performed the function of searching, so if money.com were to not be available, I would have to say search.com.

 

[CamMK27]

Although I was very young and still in high school, I had worked 2 jobs and saved enough money to start
registering good names. By 1995 I had saved up around $19,000 working two jobs and attending high school.
So I would have def invested all that money registering domains. I started my first business by the time I was 17
and all that money I saved up was gone before I was 18. Business failed. Only if I had known about domains at the
time I would have registered all the Major Geo countries, cities .coms and all single and 2 words category killer domains.

Insure.com
Insurance.com
Health.com
Medical.com
Car.com
Cars.com
Cards.com
Card.com
CreditCard.com
CreditCards.com
Business.com
Jobs.com
Job.com
Work.com
Career.com
Domain.com
Domains.com
Finance.com
Forex.com
Stocks.com
Commodity.com
Commodities.com
Futures.com
Oil.com
Gas.com
Toy.com
Toys.com
Slim.com


And Many Many more.

And that $19,000++ would have made me pretty close to a Billionaire by now :disappointed:

 

[Qax]

In 1993, I was 11 for half of the year and 12 for the other half of the year. My parents had no internet access and neither did my school.

BUT, yes, I too have thought about this. Many times actually. And just in case I ever have access to a time machine, I am going to keep the names I'd get my young self to get with my paper route money to myself. Actually, names were free back then.

I got a name in 1998, and it was a pain in the ass. A little different process than it is today. And then I believe I had to pay for 2 years up front at $35 a year. I believe I sent in the whois information by mail or something, and I didn't have to pay up front. I had to send the money within so many weeks or else the name would be available for anybody to reg again. I also almost got a second name back then, just I failed to send the money in part two of this process. The name wasn't regged back then and I could just reg it. Now the .com, .net, and .org are all regged. You don't need to go back to 1993 to get the best names.

Obviously the earlier you go back, the better. But I don't know if they'd let you register a hundred names back then without justification. I think they may have given you the buzzer.

If I could just go back to 1998 and know what I know now, I could make a killing.