Halloween.com has a scary story behind it!
Many visitors of Halloween.com – the ultimate Halloween domain – might marvel at the simplicity of the web site it hosts.
In fact, there is very little there that could be considered cutting edge in terms of design or content.
However, here comes the scary part: the domain owner, Christian Riley, is a true Internet pioneer – some may say, many times the magnitude of Domain King Rick Schwartz.
How so?
Christian Riley owns a bunch of kick ass domains, such as Phonebook.com, Halloween.com, EasterBunny.com – having hand-registered them all in the early days of the (pre) commercial Internet. Eventually, he sold a large portion of them.
Let the numbers do the talking – Happy Halloween! 😀
law.com (didn’t register, it but was Director of Operations, 1993)
games.com (July 15, 1994) – Hasbro/Parker Brothers wanted this. AOL has it as of 2009.
casino.com (July 14, 1994)
court.com (August 4, 1994)
gamble.com (July 14 1994)
hotel.com (August 4, 1994) – HotelSupplies.com Inc bought this
Halloween.com (August 30, 1994)
SantaClaus.com (August 1994)
EasterBunny.com (December 1995)
phonebook.com (July 14, 1994) – We began with web directories here, Miami.com, and at coral.net for clients and business in Florida and the Caribbean. Lots of realtors and destinations.
palmbeach.com (May 24, 1994)
rights.com (August 30, 1994)
dive.com (July 30, 1994)
Havana.com (Sept 1, 1994)
Coral.net (Sept 8, 1994)
Sequitur.com (June 1994) – The opposite of non sequitur. Ended up letting it go. Silly me. 😉 (We considered Sequitur for the corporate name, but ended up with Coral Technologies after a few people in the State of Florida government didn’t get what it me and thought it might be obscene. Just ended up using it as the follow-up name for The Rising Sun BBS (Ft. Lauderdale 1982-1993) which was running TBBS and we switched to private software, then FirstClass.
diving.com (July 29, 1994)
talk.com (June 1994) – HotWired need
sale.com (June 1994) – J.Lee bought it.
racing.com (July 30, 1994) –
national.com (April 1994)
cruise.com (May 1994)
cruising.com (July 30, 1994)
movie.com (June 1994) – Well, you can see who owns it now.
miami.com (April 12, 1994) – Miami Herald needed it.
Boca.com (June 21, 1994)
Pompano.com (June 1994)
FtLauderdale.com (May 1994)
ebank.com (1994) – a Bank
reservations.com (June 1994)
reservation.com (June 1994)
dolphins.com (August 10, 1994)
shark.com (July 30, 1994)
holiday.com (June 1994)
keylargo.com (June 1994)
honeymoon.com (July 30, 1994)
boating.com (July 29, 1994)
flying.com (July 30, 1994)
keywest.com (July 29, 1994)
flores.com (Aug 29, 1994)
oceans.com (Aug 30, 1994)
marina.com (June 1994)
bahamas.com (Sept 9, 1994)
medical.com (July 14, 1994)
read.com (June 1994)
mart.com (June 1994)
realtor.com (June 1994) – At the time I didn’t know it was a trademark, just thought it was generic like “realestate.” Younger and more naive. They were friendly about it all though!
islands.com (July 30, 1994)
zodiac.com (July 1994)
SonsOfLiberty.com (April 30, 1998)
Daughters-Of-Liberty.com (July 18, 2001)
Liberty-Tree.com (July 7, 2001)
Some of the names we registered for clients/friends:
For Rick M. at St Martin Rentals: stmaarten.com, stmartin.com (April 1995)
Standup.com – For KE, who let it go. 😉
And a few other random ones:
onlinenews.com (Sept 5, 1994)
thekeys.com (Sept 5, 1994)
keylargo.com (Sept 5, 1994)
novel.com (June 1994)
novels.com (July 30, 1994)
marina.com (July 30, 1994)
gallion.com (July 29, 1994)
read.com (August 4, 1994)
videonews.com (July 1994)
hurricanes.com (June 4, 1994)
hurricane.com (June 4, 1994)
goldcoast.com (Sept 9, 1994)
oneearth.com (Sept 9, 1994)
iplaw.com (Sept 19, 1994)
netlottery.com (August 1994)
internetlotto.com (June 22, 1994)
jugar.com (spanish for play) (June 5, 1994)
loteria.com (June 6, 1994)
allmylove.com (Jan 5, 1995)
sendgreetings.com (Jan 5, 1995)
goldmarket.com (for a client, Dec 6, 1995)
goldwww.com (Dec 6, 1995
internetlottery.com (June 15, 1995)
Happy Halloween!