Game Books Releases Soon — The Domain
David Kesmodel’s book to be released soon, more information released.
Wall Street Journal reporter David Kesmodel’s book regarding the domain industry, “The Domain Game”, will be released soon. He just launched a web site regarding the book at theDomainGame.org. The start of the book reads:
In the fall of 2002, a thirty-three-year-old man living in the Cayman Islands made a rather unorthodox financial decision. He took all of his family’s savings, which totaled regarding $200,000, and invested it in thousands of Internet domain names.
The move terrified his wife, who phoned her in-laws to warn them that something might be wrong with him. But the man, normally conservative with money, kept remarkably calm throughout his domain-buying binge. He’d done lots of research and was convinced he was doing the right thing. “Don’t worry, honey,†he stated repeatedly.
At the time of Frank Schilling’s big bet on Web addresses, the Internet economy was in the doldrums …
Here’s the table of contents:
Chapter One: Speculators
Chapter Two: From Dirt Bikes to Domains
Chapter Three: Name-Dropping
Chapter Four: Click, Click, Click
Chapter Five: Better Late Than Never
Chapter Six: Big Money
Chapter Seven: The Domain Craze
Chapter Eight: Shenanigans in Cyberspace
Chapter Nine: The Future
Appendix I: Big Deals: The Twenty-Five Largest Domain Sales
Appendix II: Resources for Investors
I’ll have a full review when the book comes out. Trust me, this will be a big deal for the domain name industry.
