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This guy is really committed to the joke, seeing as how he could easily sell bar.com for millions of dollars. Note also that there is a .bar gTLD, and there is

This guy is really committed to the joke, seeing as how he could easily sell bar.com for millions of dollars. Note also that there is a .bar gTLD, and there is a foo.bar domain as of 2014 (though it doesn't seem to be hosting any content). I run the .foo gTLD, and bar.foo is a real domain (though admittedly not as good as foo.bar). There is no .baz; next round maybe?

KitDuncan 6y ago
How does one get to run a TLD?
- CydeWeys 6y ago
  Through ICANN: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program
- walrus01 6y ago
  form a company with enough money behind it, google "donuts llc" then pay a lot of money to ICANN
Jaruzel 6y ago
bar.foo redirects to careers.google.com. Nice joke. ;)
- CydeWeys 6y ago
  Yeah, it used to be a programming problem challenge website feeding into recruiting efforts. It was turned down though after living out its useful life and now it's just a redirect.
  - AQuantized 6y ago
    I believe the actual foobar challenge site is still running.
    - CydeWeys 6y ago
      You got a link? Because I'm pretty sure it was running on the bar.foo domain.
      - AQuantized 6y ago
        https://foobar.withgoogle.com/ https://foobar.withgoogle.com/
        CydeWeys 6y ago
        Thanks. bar.foo should really be redirecting there ... I'll look into it.
        exikyut 6y ago
        I was once reading some documentation (I think for GCP) and there was a weird artifact in the corner of the page, it moved a bit when I moused over it (??) and when I clicked it I got redirected to this site (using the .withgoogle.com TLD). The element never reappeared again. I always wondered why the element appeared on the page. Obviously because "some combination of factors" ultimately returned true - I mean specifically why :)
        giantrobot 6y ago
        I got something like that once but my ad blocker apparently screwed up the functionality and I never saw one again.
        hobs 6y ago
        Haha, I have seen it three times but the opening of the black box is so slow I have always clicked something by then.
      - deleted 6y ago
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eli 6y ago
I don’t think anyone is paying millions of dollars for domains any more. Maybe low six figures.
- CydeWeys 6y ago
  Domain names are going for more money than ever before. The record for most expensive sale (publicly known anyway) was hit just last year. 30 million dollars for voice.com: https://domainnamewire.com/2019/06/20/yes-voice-com-is-the-most-expensive-publicly-announced-domain-ever-sold/ https://domainnamewire.com/2019/06/20/yes-voice-com-is-the-m...
  - kzrdude 6y ago
    it's counterintuitive, with the flora of TLDs
    - mattl 6y ago
      A lot of people assume .com for whatever reason
      - Polylactic_acid 6y ago
        Every single tab I have open is on .com right now. Other tlds seem to only be used by blogs or small single page sites like .io games.
        kzrdude 6y ago
        I looked at my tabs. There's a lot of .orgs and some random country domain, one git site hosted on .ht and lots of national news and other sites on my local ccTLD. And mastodon instances are rather new, and exist on a massive amount of different tlds, of course on .social but also others. Probably the age of the service plays a big role! We'll see more TLD diversity as things get much older.
        6y ago
robjan 6y ago
The domain is for sale for the right price: https://www.haven2.com/index.php/domains https://www.haven2.com/index.php/domains Seems the asking price is at least 1m USD
- CydeWeys 6y ago
  Nice find. Guy has a serious portfolio of good .coms and knows what they're worth, and is holding out until he gets the right offer.
  - Polylactic_acid 6y ago
    Does he ever get a good offer? It seems to be the case that all the biggest websites are not on "good names" but that they took meaningless words and make them good names.
    - CydeWeys 6y ago
      hotels.com? uber.com? stamps.com? There's lots of really big businesses built around single word domains. Not every single one of them of course, but definitely enough for good domains to be immensely valuable.
      - taftster 6y ago
        Yes, but did they sell for $1 million? Or did these "premium" domains sell for something more realistic?
        H8crilA 6y ago
        An asking offer without a bid is just that - an offer. I can ask $1M for that red apple sitting on my desk. It's completely irrelevant. PS. This behavior is quite prominent in real estate prices, they're so slow to fall down. For example the US real estate market bottomed only in 2011. You have to be very patient if you want to buy the dip in such "I will only sell for the right price!!" markets.

KitDuncan 6y ago

How does one get to run a TLD?

CydeWeys 6y ago
Through ICANN: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program
walrus01 6y ago
form a company with enough money behind it, google "donuts llc" then pay a lot of money to ICANN

Jaruzel 6y ago

bar.foo redirects to careers.google.com. Nice joke. ;)

CydeWeys 6y ago
Yeah, it used to be a programming problem challenge website feeding into recruiting efforts. It was turned down though after living out its useful life and now it's just a redirect.
- AQuantized 6y ago
  I believe the actual foobar challenge site is still running.
  - CydeWeys 6y ago
    You got a link? Because I'm pretty sure it was running on the bar.foo domain.
    - AQuantized 6y ago
      https://foobar.withgoogle.com/ https://foobar.withgoogle.com/
      - CydeWeys 6y ago
        Thanks. bar.foo should really be redirecting there ... I'll look into it.
        exikyut 6y ago
        I was once reading some documentation (I think for GCP) and there was a weird artifact in the corner of the page, it moved a bit when I moused over it (??) and when I clicked it I got redirected to this site (using the .withgoogle.com TLD). The element never reappeared again. I always wondered why the element appeared on the page. Obviously because "some combination of factors" ultimately returned true - I mean specifically why :)
        giantrobot 6y ago
        I got something like that once but my ad blocker apparently screwed up the functionality and I never saw one again.
        hobs 6y ago
        Haha, I have seen it three times but the opening of the black box is so slow I have always clicked something by then.
    - deleted 6y ago
      [deleted]

eli 6y ago

I don’t think anyone is paying millions of dollars for domains any more. Maybe low six figures.

CydeWeys 6y ago
Domain names are going for more money than ever before. The record for most expensive sale (publicly known anyway) was hit just last year. 30 million dollars for voice.com: https://domainnamewire.com/2019/06/20/yes-voice-com-is-the-most-expensive-publicly-announced-domain-ever-sold/ https://domainnamewire.com/2019/06/20/yes-voice-com-is-the-m...
- kzrdude 6y ago
  it's counterintuitive, with the flora of TLDs
  - mattl 6y ago
    A lot of people assume .com for whatever reason
    - Polylactic_acid 6y ago
      Every single tab I have open is on .com right now. Other tlds seem to only be used by blogs or small single page sites like .io games.
      - kzrdude 6y ago
        I looked at my tabs. There's a lot of .orgs and some random country domain, one git site hosted on .ht and lots of national news and other sites on my local ccTLD. And mastodon instances are rather new, and exist on a massive amount of different tlds, of course on .social but also others. Probably the age of the service plays a big role! We'll see more TLD diversity as things get much older.
        6y ago

robjan 6y ago

The domain is for sale for the right price: https://www.haven2.com/index.php/domains https://www.haven2.com/index.php/domains Seems the asking price is at least 1m USD

CydeWeys 6y ago
Nice find. Guy has a serious portfolio of good .coms and knows what they're worth, and is holding out until he gets the right offer.
- Polylactic_acid 6y ago
  Does he ever get a good offer? It seems to be the case that all the biggest websites are not on "good names" but that they took meaningless words and make them good names.
  - CydeWeys 6y ago
    hotels.com? uber.com? stamps.com? There's lots of really big businesses built around single word domains. Not every single one of them of course, but definitely enough for good domains to be immensely valuable.
    - taftster 6y ago
      Yes, but did they sell for $1 million? Or did these "premium" domains sell for something more realistic?
      - H8crilA 6y ago
        An asking offer without a bid is just that - an offer. I can ask $1M for that red apple sitting on my desk. It's completely irrelevant. PS. This behavior is quite prominent in real estate prices, they're so slow to fall down. For example the US real estate market bottomed only in 2011. You have to be very patient if you want to buy the dip in such "I will only sell for the right price!!" markets.