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681 points mikerg87 | 1 comments | 13 May 25 11:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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jetrink ◴[15 May 25 13:17 UTC] No.43994733[source]▶
I jumped over to the Wikipedia page of early blogger Justin Hall to see what he's up to. He has another distinction that he can probably claim: The longest recorded gap between registering a domain and finally using it to start a business.

"In September 2017, Hall began work as co-founder & Chief Technology Officer for bud.com, a California benefit corporation delivering recreational cannabis, built on a domain name he registered in 1994."

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chubot ◴[15 May 25 15:10 UTC] No.43995864[source]▶
That reminded me of Orkut, which was a social networking product, but created by Orkut Büyükkökten.

So he just reused his personal domain name for the product! https://orkut.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut

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1. dekhn ◴[15 May 25 16:01 UTC] No.43996397[source]▶
later, he held onto hello.com for years with a "coming soon! the next network from orkut!" Supposedly you could get an invite but I don't know anybody who ever actually used it.