Hello.com was a product of Picasa when it was acquired by Google. Given Orkut's history at Google, I assume he was able to get a good deal on it.
Wow, talk about a nice benefit! I wonder if he had to pay taxes on its potential value? I'll take my stock options in small unmarked domain names, please.
I had the same question about orkut.com. Did Google allow him to keep or buy the orkut.com domain when it shut down the Orkut service?
seems like google is actually an investor in his new hello.com venture.
They should put dev page at www.hello.com/world just my 2c
They should also run an TCP echo server on port 7.
That was exactly my first thought when i read "hello.com"