These are mostly e-commerce businesses, selling things like domain names and web hosting.
Another route is to approach a lender like Domain Capital that is familiar with the industry and will finance the domain at rates far better than traditional financing.
It is common for cyber strategists to refer to cyberspace as a domain like air, land, sea, and space.
Best Buy, now in trouble, became the darling of social media watchers a few years ago for its open flexible work models, unprecedented in a punch-clock domain like retail.
Also, even with new extensions coming out, getting a domain in a new extension is a major risk, just like currently getting a domain outside of .com is risky.
"Eminent domain is like a knife, " says Vince Lepore, a Long Branch activist who fought against Pier Village.
This doesn't include sites or posts digging up evidential information, like the MacBook Air domain name stuff.
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Obvious Web domain variations like carmageddon.net and carmageddon.org already have been spoken for.
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To prevent bitsquatting, Dinaburg recommends that major domain names like eBay, Microsoft, Google, etc register the available one-bit permutations of their names.
Dietzen chose these investors because he believes that they bring important capabilities from companies like VMWare and Data Domain to Pure Storage.
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Mr Black said many domain registries like Nominet felt frustrated by Icann's stance, given that the root servers only held a database of the 300 or so computers with detailed lists of which domain was where.
For Rap Genius, doing the same for the internet will mean pulling in large swaths of text from outside the music world, as the site has already started to do, hosting annotated versions of public domain books like The Great Gatsby and court cases like Plessy v.
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Others are using a strategy once solely the domain of investors like Icahn.
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The millionaires-only club of American politics--once the small domain of names like Roosevelt, Rockefeller and Kennedy--has expanded to include all sorts of Regular Rich Guys.
His reasoning is simple: the cyber domain is just like the real world, and in the real world we have treaties and oversight agencies to monitor adherence to them.
And outside the open source search domain, companies like Rosslyn Analytics have developed a platform approach to complex data integration problems.
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"A thing like that would be in the domain of the Paralympics perhaps, or a new sporting activity that does not yet exist, " he says.
Unfortunately, snagging one is harder these days because large companies and domain "squatters" like Fisher gobbled up a lot of the catchy real estate years ago.
He and domain-name speculators like him have been building entire businesses around ideas for new right-of-the-dot names, and in many cases they have lined up backers to help them cover application and other costs.
In the domain of derivative contracts like credit default swaps or auction-rate preferreds (which even George Soros didn't know existed) or complex collateralized debt obligations of mortgage-backed bonds, there was a "failure to know what isn't known, " and the ramifications for not knowing were huge.
In a case like that, everyone knows that the domain wasn't bought by British Airways.
In November, the U.S. government seized more than 80 domain names of sites, like BitTorrent search engine Torrent-Finder, that it said were infringing copyright.
If Digital Domain can create a superhero who looks like he is really doing all the dangerous stunts we see, it will be another breakthrough in the annals of the big screen.
To some, the application period earlier this year was a golden opportunity to acquire domain names they could sell to registrars like GoDaddy or keep for themselves to create online businesses or expand existing ones.
This has mirrored progress in fields as diverse as speech recognition and credit-card fraud detection, where modern techniques combined with a continuing explosion in computer power have made possible behaviour that seems very like human intelligence, albeit limited to a specific domain.
"Social network sites like Twitter must be regarded as being in the public domain, " said chairman Roger Burden.
The comte, a worldly, chain-smoking ladies' man who looks like a shorter version of Liam Neeson, inherited the domain in Meursault in conjunction with quite a few relatives.
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For large priced domain names, you can use a firm like Escrow.com to hold the funds until the name has transferred, which eliminates the risk of a shady party on the other side of the transaction.
When popular domain registrar GoDaddy went dark recently, it seemed like shadowy hacker collective Anonymous was somehow involved.
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