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I have a conspiracy theory that a lot of domain registration companies like GoDaddy sell the domain name searches to squatters (sometimes themselves). The large
by andersrs 3y ago
I have a conspiracy theory that a lot of domain registration companies like GoDaddy sell the domain name searches to squatters (sometimes themselves). The larger cloud companies don't have so much incentive do this. I always look up domains from the terminal.
- cocoa19 3y agoI was disturbed by learning squatters no longer just sell domains for big bucks, some of them started to offer them for rent.
- andersrs 3y agoThat's awful. So someone pays them them, builds a website on their property and they still have you by the balls. I guess you'd only rent to add a redirect over to a new domain. I've just tried negotiating with a squatter. I'm trying to resurrect a web game with a few thousand players which the original dev neglected. I've rebuilt it on another domain but the community have game data stored in the browser localStorage against the original site. I offered US$200 and was told no - not even a counter offer. I believe they see the domains as lotto tickets - it's in their interests to let a lot of the negotiations fall though so they can win big on a few massive deals.
- comatory 3y agoWhats the game?
- account42 3y agoI guess that's yet another problem of the web platform - data locked to individual operators and not available to others even when the user wants it to be.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoWrite an app to extract the data client side.
- no_wizard 3y agoit doesn't work this way with normal dev tools, since local storage is scoped by the domain, other domains can't see whats in your storage
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoTBF, there's no way that $200 is profitable for them to deal with the hassle of selling. IME offers only start to get accepted once you are in the range of $2000+
- sam0x17 3y agoOh I've confirmed this. Back in the NetworkSolutions days I saw multiple examples of their bot parking a domain I had searched for the previous day.
- qodeninja 3y agoyup, happened to me twice.
- notatoad 3y ago>The larger cloud companies don't have so much incentive do this. I always look up domains from the terminal. somebody runs those whois servers. verisign runs .com and they like money just as much as the next guy - i wouldn't expect your lookups of unregistered domains to be unsold no matter how you do them.
- eeegnu 3y agoTime to use an LLM to sandwich my actual domain name searches between thousands of other similar sounding ones. Let them pay for all of those.
- supriyo-biswas 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running