Floating/Anchored 5-700 feet offshore.. right in front of the Ritz Carlton here in Cayman.. I can see it right out my office window..   This is a seriously impressive ship. Second biggest yacht in the world (2nd biggest privately owned yacht, 6th overall if you count ‘royal’ yachts) Cost a rumored $200mm (back when the dollar was worth something..  figure 500mm today).  Hard to believe a boat like this is worth more than a good domain portfolio..  There’s domain upside for you folks.  Although, domain portfolios don’t come with regulation basketball courts or helicopters onboard..  Looks like he could land 2 choppers on that back pad alone if he wanted.

Russ Horowitz of Marchex mentioned flying aboard Paul’s 767, watching sportcenter on plasmas back in the late 90′s, before plasmas were available in every Walmart. You gotta know Paul has hot and cold running good stuff on board that boat.  

Pop over for a drink Paul, or send the tender and I’ll pop over there. 

 Andy sends Powepoint link…  copy and paste this into your browser address bar … bring a change of underwear ..  it’s good to be Paul Allen:

http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/photos/05/octopus.ppt

It was a fantastic show.

A paradox of sorts is illustrated on this story linked in a thread at domainstate: "Names without names" is how I see it..

Story shows how many great companies are using their brand logos as identities relating to their domain names.  A really interesting trend actually.  Of course the amount of money one needs to spend in order to achieve this outcome is astronomical and dwarfs the even the world’s most expensive domain names by many orders of magnitude.