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It doesn't strike me as an expensive hobby to get into, and the tech is kinda cool. Crawl whois records to build a list of domains expiring soon. Automate regis

It doesn't strike me as an expensive hobby to get into, and the tech is kinda cool. Crawl whois records to build a list of domains expiring soon. Automate registering them for 1 year and pointing to your squatter page. That's the main loop; from there you can optimize efficiency with all sorts of weekend projects. I wonder if ppl are doing it just cuz it's something to do, and it costs less than golf clubs

voakbasda 5y ago
If I was going take on that much risk, I think I’d rather write a stock trading bot. At least that’s vaguely ethical…
nuclearnice1 5y ago
On the tech side, there is some art to being the first to catch the domain as it becomes available to register. Some domains go to auction now instead of becoming available for normal registration. Then a whole world of research could be done on the value of a particular domain and a the right squatter spam content.
myth_drannon 5y ago
Or you can just use park.io
- somehnacct3757 5y ago
  Hah I love it. They figured out the best way to monetize it was to pass the speculative action on to a lower layer of suckers. They even hold the auction before the domain expires, so they have relatively little skin in the game.
Normille 5y ago
"ppl" --fuck's sake. Just spell "people" properly. This isn't Reddit
- simonklitj 5y ago
  “fuck’s sake.” --fuck’s sake. Just write “for fuck’s sake” properly. This isn’t Reddit.
mmerlin 5y ago
Brett McFall sold a $3000 scammy course and service that taught you to do something like this (monetize expired domains that have traffic and hope to sell the domain later) including create SEO spam blogs packed with Amazon or eBay affiliate links on the freshly renewed domain name. I went to the seminar with friends and the whole time thinking this is just bullshit, but somehow Brett McFail had ignited my less tech-savvy friends greed impulse so they paid for it and I helped run it. This was about a dozen years ago. Major waste of time and money except for Brett McFail who made $millions selling $3000 courses on a slick stage pitch teasing passive income dreams where the fine print should have read: *actual results WILL vary GREATLY in the opposite direction than my nice trending-upwards passive SEO spamblog and domain sales income charts ;P

voakbasda 5y ago

If I was going take on that much risk, I think I’d rather write a stock trading bot. At least that’s vaguely ethical…

nuclearnice1 5y ago

On the tech side, there is some art to being the first to catch the domain as it becomes available to register. Some domains go to auction now instead of becoming available for normal registration. Then a whole world of research could be done on the value of a particular domain and a the right squatter spam content.

myth_drannon 5y ago

Or you can just use park.io

somehnacct3757 5y ago
Hah I love it. They figured out the best way to monetize it was to pass the speculative action on to a lower layer of suckers. They even hold the auction before the domain expires, so they have relatively little skin in the game.

Normille 5y ago

"ppl" --fuck's sake. Just spell "people" properly. This isn't Reddit

simonklitj 5y ago
“fuck’s sake.” --fuck’s sake. Just write “for fuck’s sake” properly. This isn’t Reddit.

mmerlin 5y ago

Brett McFall sold a $3000 scammy course and service that taught you to do something like this (monetize expired domains that have traffic and hope to sell the domain later) including create SEO spam blogs packed with Amazon or eBay affiliate links on the freshly renewed domain name. I went to the seminar with friends and the whole time thinking this is just bullshit, but somehow Brett McFail had ignited my less tech-savvy friends greed impulse so they paid for it and I helped run it. This was about a dozen years ago. Major waste of time and money except for Brett McFail who made $millions selling $3000 courses on a slick stage pitch teasing passive income dreams where the fine print should have read: *actual results WILL vary GREATLY in the opposite direction than my nice trending-upwards passive SEO spamblog and domain sales income charts ;P