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I reserved unix.dev for the regular domain reservation price, not the crazy "premium domain" price because unix.dev was not part of the premium domain list. Ho

by 4ad 8y ago

I reserved unix.dev for the regular domain reservation price, not the crazy "premium domain" price because unix.dev was not part of the premium domain list. However, Google determined that no, unix.dev should be a premium domain, and "stole" the reservation from me (after I have already paid for it). They later added it to the premium domain list, and they asked me for $11k to keep the reservation. TBH, I expected to lose the domain because of trademarks or whatever, but apparently it was simple highway robbery. Btw, I didn't even get my money back, just "store credit".

toyg 8y ago
And what were you going to do with unix.dev, if I may ask?
- isatty 8y ago
  How is that relevant? Could be a porn site for all I care. It is fair to claim it legally under copyright etc like the OP mentioned, but otherwise, he paid for it and gets to do whatever with it.
  - toyg 8y ago
    It's just ironic that a domain squatter trying to profiteer, would complain that Google are profiteering. Yes, of course they do. The whole domain-registration "business" is like that, including OP above.
- bitL 8y ago
  What does it have to do with what Google did? Fishing for pre-crime to justify it?
CydeWeys 8y ago
Hey, I just want to correct some misunderstandings here. "Reservations" mean nothing. Google Domains is merely one of many registrars that have customers all vying for domains in the same namespace. A "reservation" just means that the registrar will make their best effort to attempt to get that domain for you at the specified price; it doesn't mean that some other registrar won't get it first, or that some other customer isn't willing to spend more and will get it on an earlier day of EAP. Until the domain is actually created with you as the registrant, it isn't yours in any sense of the word. There are even registrars out there that will, upon acquiring a domain, auction it off amongst all of their customers who pre-registered it.

by 4ad 8y ago

toyg 8y ago

And what were you going to do with unix.dev, if I may ask?

isatty 8y ago
How is that relevant? Could be a porn site for all I care. It is fair to claim it legally under copyright etc like the OP mentioned, but otherwise, he paid for it and gets to do whatever with it.
- toyg 8y ago
  It's just ironic that a domain squatter trying to profiteer, would complain that Google are profiteering. Yes, of course they do. The whole domain-registration "business" is like that, including OP above.
bitL 8y ago
What does it have to do with what Google did? Fishing for pre-crime to justify it?

CydeWeys 8y ago

Hey, I just want to correct some misunderstandings here. "Reservations" mean nothing. Google Domains is merely one of many registrars that have customers all vying for domains in the same namespace. A "reservation" just means that the registrar will make their best effort to attempt to get that domain for you at the specified price; it doesn't mean that some other registrar won't get it first, or that some other customer isn't willing to spend more and will get it on an earlier day of EAP. Until the domain is actually created with you as the registrant, it isn't yours in any sense of the word. There are even registrars out there that will, upon acquiring a domain, auction it off amongst all of their customers who pre-registered it.