generic domain names

It seems one of the big failures of business.com was it was doomed from the start. How much did the Earthlink founder pay for the name? Was it 7 million or 12 million? It was somewhere between those numbers.

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Other generic domain names have failed, too. Mail.com's ownership changed three times, yet it is still not profitable. Auction.com is nowhere near the popularity of eBay. There are others. www.com never really got going. iWon did well and was sold twice. Now, it is part of IAC.

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I don't know one major generic site which is still independent or successful w/o outside help. Heck, even Google needed venture capital to get going. MSN has lost millions. However, Gates still supports the Internet division. Search.com, download.com, news.com, etc. are all owned and operated by C!Net. The founder of C!Net, Hasley Minor, has not been with them for years (he now has a VC firm no less). Originally, shopping.com was owned by Compaq. Then, it was acquired by Dealtime, which acquired epinions, which was acquired by eBay.

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Since the beginning of commerce on the Internet, you needed more than a good domain. There needed to be money behind it. It is a shame what some of those companies did with all of that money. If some had just kept stayed grounded and actually ran a business, I am sure many would still be around today.

the right attitude

I think it is important for people to listen. This includes everybody, christians, muslim, whatever. Most people don't know how to pray. They kneel down and beg god for everything. "Oh lord, help me get this job so I can get a new car, or buy that house, help my child get good grades in school, etc., etc." Next, they get up, might light a candle or something if they are in a church, make a little sign of the cross, and then go about their business.

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You are talking "at" god. However, how do you hear what "god" has to say? When does god "speak" to you and show you the way? When do you listen?

People need to meditate. It's not complicated. Just sit down and be quiet somewhere. Don't think or try to "hear" things. Make your mind as still as possible. We are constantly bombarded with "noise". The mind never has a chance to rest.

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So, in combination with your search for the "answers", people need to "be still and listen." As things get crazier and crazier, you need to listen to your inner voice, since you're bombarded from the outside. As the old folks say "listen to your first mind."

why meaningless emails

I believe the internet is becoming sentient. It has locked onto unencrypted, plain-text SMTP as the most ubiquitous, simplest, and most understandable form of communication. HTML and images are too complex.

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At its current level, the semi-intelligent internet is capable only of sending meaningless emails. It sends things textually meaningful but semantically meaningless. For us, it looks like an amalgam of random words and publications with the intent of confusing us. Of course, since so much spam exists, the internet is largely trained by the spammers. This further confuses the emerging intelligence. Since the internet lacks a concept of "self" it perceives every email to be a reply to its own communiques.

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Before the internet becomes intelligent, it needs to learn to filter the meaningless stuff. Next, it must get a concept of self. This is followed by a concept of multiple other individuals (us). At that point, the internet becomes self-aware. At this point, the learning commences in a more directed way.