mom.com (and deciding exactly what to do with that would be half the fun)
Good points, but what you’re talking about is domain development and brand development. If you have a brief and memorable domain name that’s relevant to the product, a lot of that work is done for you from the start and the brand development will go easier, IMHO.
I would pick something with massive value that couldn’t be swiped up by a corporations lawyers such as hosting.com or finance.com
and I’d start a blog about, you guessed it, some of the turds that I’ve worked for over the years…
A bit of a tangent here, but why can you register single letter .net addresses but not single letter .com addresses?
Ok. I suppose if I had google.ca that would be the best investment
The answer seems to be you can register single letter domain names (of any TLD), but they are reserved. Exceptions can be made (for example - x.com redirects to Paypal), but it seems to be registered back in the early days of the internet & you’d have to lobby pretty hard though, as they don’t give them out to anybody - for example, g.cn redirects to Google, but they’ve been unable to register g.com.
Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/no-gcom-ycom-mcom-why-not/6190/
I was surprised on how much people bid on that domain.
probably be a three letter domain or “movies.com”
Yup. That’s exactly what I was going to say.
It is an interesting story how that domain name was stolen from the rightful owner and how it took years for him to get it back.
I believe I read somewhere that the sex.com domain name has generated over $100 million in revenues.
Can’t have it, I chose it first 
PS: If they ever release an .ex ccTLD I wanna buy al.ex 
Please read post 9, don’t duplicate your post and come back later 
Please check out post 23 because you’re on track to earning yourself a feature spot on the blog which I would have constructed had I snatched my favorite domain name. 
I only mentioned the post (jokingly) as cross posting (inclusive of duplicates) are against the forum rules… and so is naughty behaviour (hint).
Or both?
Had I a time machine, I’d go back and maybe snaffle something like apple.com. Bet that would have sold for a pretty penny when Apple went online.
Sex(.)com is going to be on sale soon. Get some investors and buy it.
Yes, you are correct. The owner is in foreclosure. 
I had you down as more of a diy.com man 
I’d buy one-word domains until I was broke. Then try to find food until people started buying them.
I believe rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.com is still free, if you’re not broke yet.
