Full Tilt Poker Throws Some New Lines Out into the Waters

December 14, 2008

Buying domain names is a familiar method of trying to make some extra money on the web. For some people, especially in the past, it’s worked out really well, usually in one of two ways:

  1. predicting domain names companies will pay for and holding them hostage for the right price
  2. observing the common misspellings and mistypings of competitors URLs and buying up those domain names to redirect some of their traffic to your site.

As for the first method, like with anything (i.e. dot com bubble, anyone?) once too many people caught wind of it, the market got saturated, it got out of hand, companies found ways around using their first-choice URLs, and domain name buying/selling became much less of a sure-thing money-maker.

But the second method, while difficult to get in on, and requiring some disposable income and a gamble, can still often succeed.

Which is why is Full Tilt Poker – consummate gamblers (and winners!) after all – are doing it now.

Full Tilt Poker has bought up:

  • AnsolutePoker.com – because ‘b’ and ‘n’ are one key apart on a standard QWERTY keyboard
  • HallywoodPoker.com – because people often mistype ‘a’ for ‘o’ and vice-versa

FullTilt has also come up with a twist on the first above-listed method, by buying up the domain names of poker stars sponsored by competitor’s poker rooms, such as:

  • AdamLevyPoker.com – though Adam Levy is on Team Ultimate Bet
  • GrantHinklePoker.com – though Grant Hinkle is on Team Bodog

Devious? Yes. Effective? We’ll have to wait and see.

Written by FullTilter · Filed Under Full Tilt News 

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