Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Why are colleges and universities buying .xxx domains? The .xxx is for porn...

With the advent of the new internet .xxx domain, colleges and universities are scrambling to purchase 'net addresses ending with .xxx.  Why?  Are they venturing into new marketing techniques?  We all know that sex sells...

What are the opportunity costs?  Any scarcity involved in this activity?  And competition...whoa.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/washu-mizzou-aim-to-protect-names-from-porn-links/article_db0c808e-2665-59e8-a01f-05db778fe8cf.html

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Share your unique economics experiences. What did you have to give up to gain that which at the moment seemed so necessary to you? Imperfect information spanked you and now diminishing marginal utility smacks you upside the head, eh?