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Why spend the money defending a $5 domain name, especially when you're not making any money by having it? It's just a name, and if you're not a registered comp
by nubinetwork 4y ago
Why spend the money defending a $5 domain name, especially when you're not making any money by having it?
It's just a name, and if you're not a registered company, you're going to be seen as a squatter no matter what.
All I'm suggesting is to be prepared to have the domain ownership contested and have a backup if you have to change domains.
- nuclearnice1 4y agoWas it $5? I had the impression the OP paid more. > I spent like a year or so to save up for it, which cost roughly 6 months of average net salaries in my country about 7 years ago.
- nubinetwork 4y agoThey picked a bad registrar for a .com then, because they're dirt cheap.
- valenterry 4y agoThey probably bought it from someone as it wasn't free at the time.
- lname_dot_com 4y agoCorrect. It was already registered and up for sale.
- anonzzzies 4y ago> All I'm suggesting Not really, you are stating, matter of factly, that the big evil corp will own it and you are basically screwed. This is not true (in places I know, but might differ somewhere) if it’s not squatting and it’s actually your family name. It’s beyond reasonable. Also, I find this capitalist overlord cynicism really quite annoying. I would help OP with legal fees to prevent this from happening. Just laying down and get pummelled just because it’s a big corp should not be the default.
- lname_dot_com 4y agoThat's kind of you, but will hopefully never be necessary.
- anonzzzies 4y agoAlso, the amount doesn’t matter; OP describes, in enough detail, that they are proud of this name.
- lname_dot_com 4y ago> I spent like a year or so to save up for it, which cost roughly 6 months of average net salaries in my country about 7 years ago. It wasn't $5.