It should be obvious by now that I love the Internet. When I was a Co-Sysop on GENIE’s Investors RoundTable, I launched what became the first online newsletter. I didn’t realize what I had at the time. It was a completely free offering, running intermittently from 1992 through 1994.

This brings me to domain names. I have been fascinated by them since the mid-1990s. I have a few choice ones. I have sold and bought others along the way. In March of this year I bought Windorphins.com after I heard eBay CEO Meg Whitman use the term. Two months later — last month — I was contacted by eBay to get the domain “back.” I was told the company had filed for a trademark before I had registered the domain.