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This is the same crap allocation policy you had during the presale. Money is maybe a sufficient discriminator, but it is not a good one. Money is very unequall
by _cenw 4y ago
This is the same crap allocation policy you had during the presale.
Money is maybe a sufficient discriminator, but it is not a good one. Money is very unequally distributed around the world and this basically presumes that the only legitimate use of such a domain could be in an enterprise in a first world country. Or someone rich enough to not be price sensitive at all.
Fun fact, I reserved tty0.dev as a "vanity domain" during the presale, but someone decided to pay $300 more for the joke than me. And that domain still doesn't do anything "useful".
- Siira 4y agoAs a third world resident, I don’t see any solutions to this problem. You can’t give discounts, as that will enable arbitrage.
- CydeWeys 4y agoThere's no such concept of "reserving" domain names in a pre-sale. Either you own it, someone else owns it, or it doesn't yet exist and anyone could own it. I think you got confused by a registrar's "preorder" language, by that was never a guarantee; it was just their attempt to secure it for you when it became available. There was no guarantee.
- _cenw 4y agoI'm aware it's on a registrar level. I just thought that it was a misguided allocation policy. Someone ended up buying tty0.dev at the $300 price point and uses it for... a fake `ls` output. This registrant wasn't more or less legitimate than any other. They just had more disposable income to spend on vanity.