Betting on the lottery
The state lottery commission held its first meeting today. Mainly it was an organizational affair. Introductions were made, the lawyers told the commissioners how to stay out of trouble, the next meeting date was set...commission members ate sandwiches at the end (yes, really).
The most substantial pieces of business done today included:
- giving chairman Charles Sanders the authority to draft, circulate among board members and post a job description for the lottery's director. This will actually be the hired staff person whose job it is to run the daily operations.
- Naming the lottery the "North Carolina Education Lottery."
If you are among a very specific population, that news either makes you really happy or is disappointing. The population I'm talking about, of course, include the folks who buy up web domain names hoping they'll become valuable.
Folks have already bought up NCEDUECATIONLOTTERY.COM and NORTHCAROLINAEDUCATIONLOTTERY.COM. For that matter, a lot of the other permutations have also been bought, including the more generic NCLOTTERY.COM .
No word on how much, if any, money the commission might be willing to shell out for its domain.
In the mean time, officials are looking for temporary space in the real world and in cyber space.