Comments on: Sunday Times article version two http://kierenmccarthy.com/2007/05/26/sunday-times-article-version-two/ News and views on domain names, the Internet and life in general Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:11:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: A Sunday Times article what was written for me at kierenmccarthy.co.uk http://kierenmccarthy.com/2007/05/26/sunday-times-article-version-two/comment-page-1/#comment-2139 A Sunday Times article what was written for me at kierenmccarthy.co.uk Sun, 27 May 2007 12:12:00 +0000 http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2007/05/26/sunday-times-article-version-two/#comment-2139 [...] And the commissioning editor didn’t like it. But she was very pleasant about it and didn’t say “I don’t like it” but offered some other feasible reason. I agreed to rewrite it. So I wrote another version. I like this version too. Anyway, at 8.15pm, I get an email on my Blackberry saying that the piece was ready to go, they had made a few changes, but if I have any problems please call - she’ll be there until 10.30pm. My Blackberry would only show the first four paras or so, but it was clear it has been comprehensively rewritten. I asked her to add whoever had rehashed it to the byline. She said, no it was fine. [...] [...] And the commissioning editor didn’t like it. But she was very pleasant about it and didn’t say “I don’t like it” but offered some other feasible reason. I agreed to rewrite it. So I wrote another version. I like this version too. Anyway, at 8.15pm, I get an email on my Blackberry saying that the piece was ready to go, they had made a few changes, but if I have any problems please call – she’ll be there until 10.30pm. My Blackberry would only show the first four paras or so, but it was clear it has been comprehensively rewritten. I asked her to add whoever had rehashed it to the byline. She said, no it was fine. [...]

]]> By: Name Wire: The Product Naming Blog http://kierenmccarthy.com/2007/05/26/sunday-times-article-version-two/comment-page-1/#comment-2138 Name Wire: The Product Naming Blog Sat, 26 May 2007 20:40:12 +0000 http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2007/05/26/sunday-times-article-version-two/#comment-2138 <strong>Recent Sale, Book Highlight Value of Sex.Com and Porn.com Domain Names...</strong> It's a sad but true fact that seedy domain names are among the most valuable on the Internet. A recent story set to be printed in the UK Sunday Times explores about the utter skullduggery around the sex.com domain name, which was stolen by Stephen Mic... Recent Sale, Book Highlight Value of Sex.Com and Porn.com Domain Names…

It’s a sad but true fact that seedy domain names are among the most valuable on the Internet. A recent story set to be printed in the UK Sunday Times explores about the utter skullduggery around the sex.com domain name, which was stolen by Stephen Mic…

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