Archive - February 2015

Can you help us return GloriaBorger.com to Gloria Borger?  Yes, CNN’s Chief Political Analyst (and one of my favorite political reporters).  The obvious question is, “Why doesn’t CNN or Gloria Borger own GloriaBorger.com?”  The answer is: We have no idea.  In fact, neither Ms. Borger nor CNN has ever owned the name.  It’s been floating around since 2008 between a few different people.  The next obvious question is, “Why does Domain Roast own GloriaBorger.com?”  The answer might surprise you.

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Being Robin Hood is often a thankless job.  Turns out being a digital Robin Hood is not only thankless but nearly impossible.  By day, Javier Castaño shines shoes in Malaga, Spain.  By night, he tries to give away the most valuable Twitter handles in the world to countries and cities that should rightfully own them.  We learned about Mr. Castaño from a great story by Caitlin Dewey on WashingtonPost.com.

If you could legally sell Twitter handles, Mr. Castaño would be a multi-millionaire and shoe shining would be a distant memory.  In 2007, when Twitter was a barren plain, the man registered Twitter handles like @canada, @japan, @rome,  @madrid, @riodejaneiro and more.  He didn’t try to make a penny off them.

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