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And that's why you should own your own domain.
by napolux 6y ago
And that's why you should own your own domain.
- speedgoose 6y agoI don't know, I didn't pay for some time and now it's parked by a bot.
- phendrenad2 6y agoMan those domain squatter bot companies, they aren't even interested in selling the domain back in some cases. I don't understand the business model. Maybe they're buying google pagerank score.
- speedgoose 6y agoIn my case, I think it's related to SEO.
- alltakendamned 6y agoad income generated by traffic to page (either organic or typos) exceeds the cost of the domains. then scale to 10s of thousands.
- toast0 6y agoI stopped renewing my domain (4 letter .org) in college, but I was able to get it back a couple years later when the new person didn't pay (or did a chargeback or something... it became available in the middle of the term).... I guess just keep checking.
- balladeer 6y agoMy firstname.com domain gets renewed by a lawyer every year. Last 12 years. Through a local web host/domain registrar whose customers are mostly the people who where their customers two decade ago (because they were probably one of the 2-3 companies back then) and don't know better to move elsewhere. He doesn't even reply to emails. Not sure he checks them. The domain is not being used for anything. Mails, forwarding, websites - nothing. Nada! It's not even his name. Let's say the domain is "johnsonmon.com" and his name is "John Mark". I wonder whether it's for some client of theirs. Every year it gets renewed for one year at a price that's around twice the second highest price among local registrars here (guessing based on that registrar's current renewal price).