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That'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
by andersrs 3y ago
That'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+