While driving home last night I was thinking about domain names and WAP. When/if web browsing on mobile phones becomes widely popular, one of the more cumbersome aspects of it will be keying in domain names on the number pad. Of course, if your domain name is made up of only those letters that appear first in each three- or four-letter set associated with each number, it’ll be easy for users to get to your site. If not, then it’ll be more of a pain and, in effect, a deterrent. Then, a lightbulb went on. What if you registered the domain name corresponding to the first letter of each three- or four-letter set used in your domain name? That way, it’ll save the user a few key presses and possibly drive more traffic to your site! Now, I’m not talking about qiguang.net, but huge, well established, multi-billion dollar sites, like google.com! I could register their mobilized domain name, then sell it to them for big bucks when they realize how useful it is!

Equiped with this new money-making idea, I head off ot register gngjd.com (”n” = “o” pressed twice in succession), only to realize that Google already owns gngjd.com! Argh! If only I had thought about this earlier– before 2000, in fact, since that’s when Google picked it up. Those crafty people. And forget it– yahoo, msn, weather, even microsoft (mgapmpmdt.com) are already taken. So then I thought, forget mobilized domain names. Just use the numbers themselves. Well, you wouldn’t expect anything less… check it out: 466453.com.