Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : InfoSpace (INSP): Where GNET went! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Susan G who wrote (10428)	7/29/1999 12:25:00 AM
From: Pareto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

Susan, you won't believe it. Last weeks have been completely amazing. After being on SI most of 98 and 99 I finally checked out the Chilean Internet site registration. It turned out that most of the sites where still open. So I took another loan (it is amazing the amount of money you are able to get from different sources, I feel like Donald Trump, with a negative net worth but with a possible paper gain) and registered 500 domain names in Chile. I tell you this is real fun. One weekend I had in front of me an encyclopedia, a dictionary, a telephone book and a yellow pages and was hitting the 'register button' every 2 minutes. There are about ten companies now complaining against me. But you know lawyers, nothing to worry about. There is a 30 day time window in Chile to oppose to registrations, after this time, it is yours. One of the names I registered was www.mtv.cl so you understand, Viacom is now against me. I just leave them the name. But they complain as well to www.mitv.cl which stand for mytv or a personal homepage where you can choose your favorite channels. I will publish a full story next month. Basicly I have nothing to worry about, I have registered all generic names on the Chilean Internet including (translated) wwww.store.cl www.stockexchange.cl www.whitehouse.cl www.beach.cl and so about 500 more names. I almost had to sell my GNET but hold on to it and took another loan from the bank. Next year I tell you if this is another total failure or big fun (registered as well). Anyhow, in this name-frenzy I registered 30 dotcom names as well, including www.10sites.com which to my amazement was not registered until now. So apart from investing in GNET, next years I will try to build an international web presence as well. I think it will be possible to elevate the .cl extension to a -club image. So .com stand for commerce and .cl for club. so I will register a number of more names with the club extension. Might be that I register the www.hawaii.cl domain to have a homepage for our next common holiday. If you have any suggestions for domain names, let me know. Next year I'll have my IPO. Chao, Pareto