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  • noun Plural form of domainer.

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Examples

  • Domain traders -- or "domainers" -- have carried out their business mostly unnoticed.

    Turnstyle: Occupying Internet Domains To Protest... and Profit Turnstyle 2011

  • The man at the top of this little-known hierarchy is Kevin Ham — one of a handful of major-league "domainers" in the world and arguably the shrewdest and most ambitious of the lot.

    The Man Who Owns the Internet | Impact Lab 2007

  • Ostrofsky and Internet REIT Chief Executive Bob Martin talked with Forbes.com about why "domainers" have gotten a bad rap, and whether buying up Web site names for the sole purpose of selling ad space is similar to investing in highway-adjacent land and filling it with billboards.

    Typo.com 2006

  • They argued he was standing as a destabilising threat representing the interests of "domainers", who speculatively buy and sell generic (ie non-trademark) web addresses for profit and want the price of. uk domains reduced.

    The Register 2009

  • The man at the top of this little-known hierarchy is Kevin Ham -- one of a handful of major-league "domainers" in the world and arguably the shrewdest and most ambitious of the lot.

    Technology news - Business 2.0 Magazine 2008

  • Not all #OccupyWallStreet domainers seek money for being the first to snatch a first-rate domain.

    Turnstyle: Occupying Internet Domains To Protest... and Profit Turnstyle 2011

  • There's the self-interest of certain domainers who see a business opportunity where others see the chance to unleash a free flow of communication that could help move the country toward economic equality.

    Turnstyle: Occupying Internet Domains To Protest... and Profit Turnstyle 2011

  • I've met a couple of domainers at industry conferences who built their books largely by purchasing domains from registrants who had no idea of the value.

    Discourse.net: Naive or Predatory? 2009

  • It strikes me as rather unseemly, but I am also much poorer than the domainers who do this ....

    Discourse.net: Naive or Predatory? 2009

  • However it isn't about what I think, the reason BERR are involved is that they of course represent 'Business'1 as much as they represent 'Government' and 'Business' doesn't want to have to deal with domainers.

    a problem like Nominet 2008

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