Out From Under Her Nose

Intro

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• get right on it
• to begin with
• rival
• eating out of my hand

• domain name
• URL
• beat someone to something
• snatch

• you little
• out from under your nose

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names[/def] are big business on the Web. They cost almost nothing to register, but having the right URL can be so important to a business that they’ll buy it for thousands of dollars if someone else already registered it.

You have to be careful. If you think of a good idea, register the domain name right away so that no one will beat you to it. But who would do such a nasty thing? Maybe someone you didn’t hire for a job. See who snatched the url Devan wanted for her new business right out from under her nose.

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Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Dale

Devan

Jason

Marni

Dale:  Americandreamboat.com! What a great name!

Devan:  Isn’t it though?

Dale:  Unbelievable. Excellent name.

Devan:  Hey, speaking of which, did we ever get that name registered? Hey, Jason! Will you go register the name if we haven’t done it already?

Jason:  Yeah. I don’t think we did do that. I’ll get right on it. Hey, wait. It’s already been registered…To Marni!

Jason:  Dude! You registered Americandreamboat.com? Like, what?

Marni:  Ha ha ha! That’s right I registered it. As you recall that was actually my idea to begin with. I came up with the name so, therefore, I’m starting a rival company. And I’ll have foreign exchange students eating out of my hand and you’ll have nothing.

Jason:  OK. I’ll tell her. Uh, apparently Marni is keeping the name for herself since she thought of it and starting her own rival company.

Devan:  What? What! That little...

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