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That is a great and very transparent write-up, I'd say the best I've read in years. Usually companies don't disclose the final price. My dream .com domain name
by mtmail 3y ago
That is a great and very transparent write-up, I'd say the best I've read in years. Usually companies don't disclose the final price.
My dream .com domain name is squatted by somebody in Korea owning 10.000s of domains. One year they forgot to pay their registration, 'whois' printed 'overdue' (can't remember the exact words). I tried to register, backorder, everything. Nothing worked sadly.
- advaitruia 3y agoThank you! Took me a long time to actually get myself to publish it
- advaitruia 3y agoWhy not reach out to a domain broker to acquire it? Or even reach out yourself?
- pronoiac 3y agoI think you hit reply to the wrong comment.
- pronoiac 3y agoI've been looking at the domain lifecycle lately, and it can take a couple of months after the expiration date for it to actually become available for registration. I'd check with whois on the command line.
- JohnFen 3y agoI've had my domains for decades now, and once or twice I've accidentally failed to renew in time. My registrar has a grace period during which they won't release the domain for others to register it, just to let people who accidentally let it lapse have a chance to renew it first. In my case, I failed to notice the renewal notice and only realized that I missed it once the domains stopped resolving. The grace period let me avoid losing them.
- pronoiac 3y agoI was trying to keep it short! I like grace periods and redemption periods, but they vary so widely by TLD and registrar, that I wanted to avoid that rabbit hole of conversation. I've been working on going from calendar reminders to, at least, semi-automating checking a list of expiration dates, and then checking regularly. I'm still making mistakes, I'm just trying to avoid repeating them and instead make exciting new mistakes.
- antifa 3y agoI acquired a desired domain this way. I kept silent about it on any service that might detect my interest in it and hold it hostage. For about 3 months, I checked the whois weekly. Some company was holding it. I never visited the domain in any way, to help the domain feel dead to their analytics. Then one day, the whois result matched what you get from whois-ing a bunch of random letters with .com. It was finally released. I registered it from a company like namesilo or porkbun for the standard .com price.
- folli 3y agoI was in a similar boat a couple of years ago with sunlocator.com I created an app with that name, unfortunately the domain was already in possession of a turkish PV company that went out of business. I noticed that the domain will lapse in a couple of months, so I used Snapnames (if I remember correctly) to set up a domain drop catching service. Meanwhile, I got an email from someone representing the Turkish company who independently asked me if I wanted to buy the domain for a couple of thousand USD. I was getting nervous, but decided to go radiosilent on that matter. Well it worked, they must have thought I'm out of business as well, or whatever. A couple weeks later the domain dropped and got picked up by Snapnames in my name.
- hackernewds 3y agoSnapnames seems like everything that is wrong with the industry of domain squatting