| Justin Hall registered bud.com in 1994 when he was a 19-year-old intern working at Wired Magazine. He also published "Justin's Links from the Underground" at links.net, becoming one of the internet's earliest bloggers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Hall http://www.links.net/ Instead of selling out to Budweiser for peanuts, he stashed it away safely in a cool dry place for later. Now he runs Bud.com as a California benefit corporation delivering recreational cannabis! https://bud.com >What is bud.com? >bud.com helps you find legal, lab-tested, quality cannabis for delivery in your area. >Order from your smartphone, tablet or computer. Pick from curated products across all categories and price ranges, then proceed to checkout. You'll need to indicate a delivery address, provide a valid ID (21+) for upload, then choose your payment method. >Our customer service team is here to help you have a positive order experience. We look forward to bringing you quality products from local dispensaries. History of bud.com: https://bud.com/history-of-bud-com/ >I was 19 years old, working as an intern at Wired Magazine in San Francisco. We were launching arguably the first commercial publication on the web; we ran the first banner ads. I learned how to register domains in that office, and I didn’t register very many. I was depressed that justin.com was taken; instead I got justin.org & links.net – both pointed to my personal web site. >A whois lookup shows I registered bud.com on 2 December 1994. It was free to claim; no one had used it before. I had to write a letter explaining what I was going to use it for. I can’t remember what I said I was going to use it for, but I liked pot and I liked the internet so it was fun to have this great, short domain name. I immediately made my email address justin at buddotcom which I’ve used since then. [...] >In 1999 I was contacted by a lawyer Steven M. Weinberg, representing Anheuser-Busch, makers of Bud beer. We chatted by phone: “So, you’re a college student!” Actually I graduated the year before. >He continued: “Well, how does $50,000 sound for bud.com?” >I replied that $50k should be the interest generated by the money someone pays for bud.com. This is a three letter, actual word, dot com domain, and if I’m going to see it on every beer can you make forever, I should at least be well compensated. I remember reading that the marketing budget for Budweiser beer that quarter was $16.1 million. BUD was the company’s stock symbol. >I wasn’t going to sell lightly, and they weren’t going to bid against themselves, so we didn’t get anywhere. First recorded content on bud.com (check that 1996 archive link to Cyborganic's "spacebar" if you love retro web design): https://web.archive.org/web/19961219041227/http://www.bud.co... A story of bud.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v9gzfYF6aY&ab_channel=Justi... >I've owned the web domain bud.com since 1994. Here's a story of what I've done with it so far, and what we might do with it together going forward! |