Type Emails Carefully!
Remember 25 years ago when the internet was like the Wild Wild West. You could dream up a name… like.. uh… Rockies.com because you loved the mountains. You register the name for 20-bucks…. you forget about it… and if you’re lucky… the Colorado Rockies come along and pay you more than a million dollars…. for the name.
That happened
But some people are happy to sit on these names registered long ago. One of them… is Gail. Back in 1996… her husband bought her Gail.com as a birthday gift. For years now… the only thing on Gail.com is the answers to a few questions. No pictures at all. It’s only Gail explaining that she likes the birthday present. She’s not selling it.. And she doesn’t want to make any money from it. Even though Gail.com gets 6-million hits a year… which makes you wonder …what’s so special about her helvetica text page that basically says “leave me alone?”
Well.. it’s one letter off from GMAIL.com. If you’re too light tapping the “M” in Gmail… you get Gail. Dot-com…. and apparently people make that mistake 6-million times a year…. which …if she did monetize it… could be worth around a half million dollars each year
But like a farmer who refuses to sell to the developers.. Gail remains anonymous… holding on to Gail.com … and whenever you mistype the email address of a friend… she’s content to let your digital tumbleweeds roll across her prarie…
By the way don’t go to prarie.com … it’ll absolutely wreck your computer.
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