Some money grubbing entrepreneur (or their program) apparently bought/created the domain sheryl.oppenheim.name and now it's one of the first things that shows up when you google my name
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geebus $188! This is almost as bad as that time that guy in Nigeria bought includingbutnotlimitedto.com and tried to sell it back to me for like $2000. Then $1000. Then $500. When I stopped replying to his e-mails he tried to sell it to me for fifty bucks. I just went and bought the .tv for 10 bucks and lived happily ever after.
sheryl.oppenheim.name isn't really the domain... rather, oppenheim.name (obviously covering a heck of a lot more people) is the domain. They must have automatically populated subdomains with common first names, for example this one.
Just by looking around a little bit, it seems that the whole .name thing is designed to extract money from people. There are several domain registrars with ".name reseller programs" where for $100 or so you can buy up .name domains in bulk and then easily resell them to people whose names you've squatted on.
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Silly e-commerce!
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Just by looking around a little bit, it seems that the whole .name thing is designed to extract money from people. There are several domain registrars with ".name reseller programs" where for $100 or so you can buy up .name domains in bulk and then easily resell them to people whose names you've squatted on.
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And, unrelated, that interview with DMX you posted? golden!
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