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Yaa, $1 for a domain like hooli.xyz or Google, I mean Alphabet ( https://abc.xyz https://abc.xyz ). I'll try it out. Just snapped up prefi.xyz, suffi.xyz, pic

by Ologn 11y ago

Yaa, $1 for a domain like hooli.xyz or Google, I mean Alphabet ( https://abc.xyz https://abc.xyz ). I'll try it out. Just snapped up prefi.xyz, suffi.xyz, picka.xyz, icebo.xyz, equino.xyz, mailbo.xyz, postbo.xyz, rolode.xyz, soapbo.xyz, toolbo.xyz, lunchbo.xyz, letterbo.xyz, chatterbo.xyz for about $15 total for all of them. I skipped on conve.xyz, laryn.xyz, proli.xyz, and surta.xyz, which were all open a few minutes ago.

AndrewKemendo 11y ago
Glad to see innovation in action. This is the kind of stuff that makes the web worse - domain squatting.
- Ologn 11y ago
  > Glad to see innovation in action. Thank you! I sent in a registration for proof.com on February 3, 1996, but missed out on it by a few hours to some other dude. Never again! Just snapped up remar.xyz, networ.xyz, noteboo.xyz, payche.xyz and a few more. Went on a geometry/graphics kick and snapped up stuff like plotting.xyz and intercepts.xyz as well. I don't make the rules, I just play by them.
  - bduerst 11y ago
    Thankfully the proliferation of gTLDs is increasing the supply and lowering the value for squatters like you. You screwed up in 1996, and you're screwing up again now, but hey, it's your money.
  - yoha 11y ago
    > I don't make the rules, I just play by them. We all make the rules.
  - marincounty 11y ago
    The rich boys are speculating on everything. I don't see anything wrong with poor boys taking a chance on an domain name? Yes--I don't like squatting, but when you have huge companies buying up huge blocks of names; I actually encourage the little guy to buy a few, and hope? The rich boys always seem to get the best names first? (I do wish when domains expired, the domain company wouldn't have first shot at buying the expired domain? Why are they allowed to do this? It doesn't seem fair? Maybe, I got the protocol wrong?)
- codeisawesome 11y ago
  Perhaps, but domain squatting also produced the incentive to diversify gTLDs, something that would have taken much longer otherwise? I'm not sure.
  - wodenokoto 11y ago
    Which is also generally considered a bad thing.

by Ologn 11y ago

AndrewKemendo 11y ago

Glad to see innovation in action. This is the kind of stuff that makes the web worse - domain squatting.

Ologn 11y ago
> Glad to see innovation in action. Thank you! I sent in a registration for proof.com on February 3, 1996, but missed out on it by a few hours to some other dude. Never again! Just snapped up remar.xyz, networ.xyz, noteboo.xyz, payche.xyz and a few more. Went on a geometry/graphics kick and snapped up stuff like plotting.xyz and intercepts.xyz as well. I don't make the rules, I just play by them.
- bduerst 11y ago
  Thankfully the proliferation of gTLDs is increasing the supply and lowering the value for squatters like you. You screwed up in 1996, and you're screwing up again now, but hey, it's your money.
- yoha 11y ago
  > I don't make the rules, I just play by them. We all make the rules.
- marincounty 11y ago
  The rich boys are speculating on everything. I don't see anything wrong with poor boys taking a chance on an domain name? Yes--I don't like squatting, but when you have huge companies buying up huge blocks of names; I actually encourage the little guy to buy a few, and hope? The rich boys always seem to get the best names first? (I do wish when domains expired, the domain company wouldn't have first shot at buying the expired domain? Why are they allowed to do this? It doesn't seem fair? Maybe, I got the protocol wrong?)
codeisawesome 11y ago
Perhaps, but domain squatting also produced the incentive to diversify gTLDs, something that would have taken much longer otherwise? I'm not sure.
- wodenokoto 11y ago
  Which is also generally considered a bad thing.