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I've never seen a $$ number associated with these things, but really? Only $3K? Apparently, I would have overbid if I were in the market for such things.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
I've never seen a $$ number associated with these things, but really? Only $3K?
Apparently, I would have overbid if I were in the market for such things.
- mattdeboard 15y agoWell, it may be that the frightening reality is such that supply is so abundant that a single site with 12m dailies doesn't demand the prices one might expect. edit: 12m monthlies, sorry.
- 0x12 15y agoMysql.com has nowhere near 12m daily uniques.
- mattdeboard 15y agoRight you are, thanks.
- zobzu 15y agoits hard to say, but generally the public postings like that are a cover up to cover tracks. you might imagine that no one ever puts such offer on public (or private with everyone having access to it) kind of boards. its a very usual thing to do, at least, back in the day <strikeout>we</strikeout> they were doing that every time we weren't 200% sure of our tracks or for highly advertised targets (yeah you risk less hacking a whole ISP than you do hacking a nooby site such as mysql.com)
- pavpanchekha 15y agoIt wasn't sold for $3K, as far as I can tell. The screenshot linked to reads "Don't bother calling if you don't have $3K". Now that might mean asking price or it might mean an order of magnitude, but it certainly seems like the domain was positioned as on auction.
- T-hawk 15y agoYou also have to figure it's very temporary root access, until a real root user repairs it from an uncompromised offline backup. It's not like they're selling the entire MySQL site in perpetuity for $3k.