Let me give you a scenario that I've been seeing lately.

Some person, either a friend or coworker or family member, is bragging to you about some new computer they just purchased. They give you a run down on all the specs. Their face brightens as they talk about getting the best of the best. Quad-cores, the latest video cards, the greatest hard drive storage.

So you proceed to ask them what their plans are for this monster machine.

Their response, "Browsing and working on Word docs".

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As I've mentioned before, my brain is always coming up with new ideas. Often those ideas have some domain name attached to them that I think would fit the project perfectly. So I do the obvious thing and type in that URL just to see if it's taken or if someone else has had a similar idea. More often then not the domain is taken, but all that rests upon it is a crappy parked domain. What bothers me most about this isn't the fact that the domain is already taken, but that the idea isn't being put to use. Finish Reading »