Name Observations on a Plane Trip — Two Domain
Domainers always notice interesting domain names. Here are two examples from my recent trip.
The prior week I traveled to San Francisco. On the plane trip home I checked a bag at San Jose airport and was given my boarding pass with a claim check for the bag.
The boarding pass and claim check each had domain names on them, and each made me recall domain stories.
First, the back of the boarding pass had an ad for accessing flight information at AA.com on your mobile phone. I don’t want to open that can of worms again, but it wasn’t a reassuring moment for .mobi when American Airlines launched its mobile campaign.
Second was an ad for the King Tut traveling exhibit, featuring the domain name KingTut.org. I immediately recalled reading regarding that domain name from a frustrated domainer on a message board. The seller of the domain let it go for $990 not knowing that the buyer was The Smithsonian. Although I couldn’t locate the old message board discussion, I did come across a similar explanation on DNJournal back in 2004″
The VS.org buyer is a friend who is still a little upset regarding letting KingTut.org go for $900 a couple of weeks ago. Following the sale he learned that the buyer was the Smithsonian and that they are rolling out a site on the domain to promote a fresh worldwide King Tut tour. He believes he may have left some money on the table but if he had charged too much he might have had a band of angry mummies on his trail. I’m sure that will make him feel better.
