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This guy is providing everybody with a useful service! Bare with me!... All non-registered domain names are currently sold for the same price, regardless of m

This guy is providing everybody with a useful service! Bare with me!... All non-registered domain names are currently sold for the same price, regardless of much value they have to potential buyers. By thinking of and buying say "weddings-central.com" for $10 and then reselling it for $10,000 he's creating valuable domain names that won't be wasted by being sold for less than they are worth. He's basically a speculator. If he bets wrong he loses money, and he bets right he makes money and provides a useful service.

yubrew 19y ago
i don't see it, where is the value add?
- mynameishere 19y ago
  Speculation creates a market and helps resolve real prices (rather than phony prices--for example, 10 dollars a year for every domain, whether weddingshoes.com or xxxyalfjadsgjg.com)
  - lupin_sansei 19y ago
    Exactly. He's also thinking of the names in the first place (excepting the misspelling type ones like google.cm).
BrandonM 19y ago
This makes no sense to me. He's only doing a service for himself and those that advertise through him. If I want to start my own online radio station (I know, it's been done), onlineradio.com seems like a good place to start. Except of course that it's being squatted on, so I can't pay the "public domain" price that I should be able to, but instead I have to pay one of these bosos whatever they think it's worth. The fact that he bought it didn't help me come up with the name... it's an obvious name, and that's why he bought it in the first place. So where's the service again?
- lupin_sansei 19y ago
  The service is that he's making onlineradio.com available to you, for a price you both agree on. If he didn't, and someone else took it who wasn't a squatter then you would have no chance of getting it. He's selling you a second chance to get the domain name, and a service of preserving the good domain names.

yubrew 19y ago

i don't see it, where is the value add?

mynameishere 19y ago
Speculation creates a market and helps resolve real prices (rather than phony prices--for example, 10 dollars a year for every domain, whether weddingshoes.com or xxxyalfjadsgjg.com)
- lupin_sansei 19y ago
  Exactly. He's also thinking of the names in the first place (excepting the misspelling type ones like google.cm).

BrandonM 19y ago

This makes no sense to me. He's only doing a service for himself and those that advertise through him. If I want to start my own online radio station (I know, it's been done), onlineradio.com seems like a good place to start. Except of course that it's being squatted on, so I can't pay the "public domain" price that I should be able to, but instead I have to pay one of these bosos whatever they think it's worth. The fact that he bought it didn't help me come up with the name... it's an obvious name, and that's why he bought it in the first place. So where's the service again?

lupin_sansei 19y ago
The service is that he's making onlineradio.com available to you, for a price you both agree on. If he didn't, and someone else took it who wasn't a squatter then you would have no chance of getting it. He's selling you a second chance to get the domain name, and a service of preserving the good domain names.