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technically it does. if you can't afford $1,000 that means you aren't even making $1,000 a year. If your project only makes you $83/mo...it's just a hobby.

by vaksel 16y ago

bad_user 16y ago
Technically you can make 1 million $ in revenue and not have $1000 in profits.
- vaksel 16y ago
  yes...but it doesn't work the other way...you can't have $1,000 in revenue and $1 million in profits.
  - bad_user 16y ago
    I don't see the relevance. Spending $1000 a year for a domain is $1000 that gets cut from profits and $990 more than I'm willing to spend on a domain that's on standby until I have the time to work on my idea. On the other hand I should have the first-mover advantage, because yes, I thought about that name before somebody else did. Properties in general are cheap for first-movers ... I can think of dozens of places where I can buy land from uninhabited areas with a breath-taking mountains panorama ... for small prices like $5-$20 per square meter. Prices get high sooner or later due to infrastructure developments, or increased demand, but thought luck, it's my property now. And yes, for land you pay taxes ... but you're receiving services in return, like water, electricity, public roads, hospitals, etc... So you want that domain name so badly? Pay me a sum I cannot refuse. Sure it will cost you more than $1000, but that's life for you, and you shouldn't have a problem if your project is not a hobby :)
crystalis 16y ago
So you're proposing 80 total websites with $500/yr profit each should actually be costing their fictional single owner $40k?
dkarl 16y ago
Plenty of people blow $1000 per year on a hobby, though it's usually cars and parts, camera lenses, ski gear, or greens fees instead of domain names.
colonelxc 16y ago
Here on a startup site, how many of us have purchased domains to start a company? A lot of people here bootstrap their own businesses, which often can't make any money before they own a domain and put their site up. In that case, 1000 dollars is a lot.

technically it does. if you can't afford $1,000 that means you aren't even making $1,000 a year. If your project only makes you $83/mo...it's just a hobby.

by vaksel 16y ago

technically it does. if you can't afford $1,000 that means you aren't even making $1,000 a year. If your project only makes you $83/mo...it's just a hobby.

bad_user 16y ago

Technically you can make 1 million $ in revenue and not have $1000 in profits.

vaksel 16y ago
yes...but it doesn't work the other way...you can't have $1,000 in revenue and $1 million in profits.
- bad_user 16y ago
  I don't see the relevance. Spending $1000 a year for a domain is $1000 that gets cut from profits and $990 more than I'm willing to spend on a domain that's on standby until I have the time to work on my idea. On the other hand I should have the first-mover advantage, because yes, I thought about that name before somebody else did. Properties in general are cheap for first-movers ... I can think of dozens of places where I can buy land from uninhabited areas with a breath-taking mountains panorama ... for small prices like $5-$20 per square meter. Prices get high sooner or later due to infrastructure developments, or increased demand, but thought luck, it's my property now. And yes, for land you pay taxes ... but you're receiving services in return, like water, electricity, public roads, hospitals, etc... So you want that domain name so badly? Pay me a sum I cannot refuse. Sure it will cost you more than $1000, but that's life for you, and you shouldn't have a problem if your project is not a hobby :)

crystalis 16y ago

So you're proposing 80 total websites with $500/yr profit each should actually be costing their fictional single owner $40k?

dkarl 16y ago

Plenty of people blow $1000 per year on a hobby, though it's usually cars and parts, camera lenses, ski gear, or greens fees instead of domain names.

colonelxc 16y ago

Here on a startup site, how many of us have purchased domains to start a company? A lot of people here bootstrap their own businesses, which often can't make any money before they own a domain and put their site up. In that case, 1000 dollars is a lot.