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Tell me about it! I accidentally let [my first name].au lapse. Shitty registrar, all that was available during the initial .au sale period, their renewal emails
by tmpX7dMeXU 3y ago
Tell me about it! I accidentally let [my first name].au lapse. Shitty registrar, all that was available during the initial .au sale period, their renewal emails went to spam. Whatever. I still get that it’s all “on me” and someone has the right to register an expired domain. I don’t have a common first name. The other .au derivatives of my first name are silly early Internet era sites for local businesses that probably barely exist anymore. I know what the market is like for my first name on most public namespaces. Alas, a squatter wants several thousand dollars for it. I didn’t bother responding to the email. They’ll hopefully realise that they’ve bought a dud and let it go.
- throw__away7391 3y agoOne of the weirder things I’ve seen is that many of the squatter sites include a “moral justification” page for lack of any better description where someone from the squatting agency handling the domain has written how their customers have made smart investments and deserve to be paid, replete with all kinds of analogies comparing domain names to other investments.
- cipheredStones 3y agoIs that really the stated argument?! "We put money into this, therefore we deserve to earn money off of it [regardless of the fact that it never did anyone any good and is purely rent-seeking behavior]" certainly encapsulates a particular investment ethos.
- throw__away7391 3y agoIt was pretty weird, I am 100% sure it was inspired by real conversations the author had. In general everyone needs to justify their behavior to themselves at least. I've heard people blatantly ripping people off say things like "if I don't take their money someone else will", just usually these are not things they put on their website.