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I checked for cod.ing and they said it was available. I got my hopes up and went to Godaddy. It costs over $38,000. I guess in some ways that’s good because the
by ralmidani 3y ago
I checked for cod.ing and they said it was available. I got my hopes up and went to Godaddy. It costs over $38,000. I guess in some ways that’s good because the purchaser would more likely be someone who wants to launch a legit business or project rather than a squatter. But as others have pointed out, this whole thing is a blatant money grab.
- doh 3y agoWell, fuck.ing costs only $12,999.99/yr.
- sgjohnson 3y agoFor phase 9. Getting it now costs $1.1m/y. A complete non-brainer for $13k. If you could get it for $13k, you'd already be far too late. I don't see how it's not at least a high 6 figure flip.
- baz00 3y agoNot joking I seriously considered snagging that. Reckon I could turn a profit. The I realised I'd have to deal with the people who'd want to buy it and they are mostly scum.
- YeahThisIsMe 3y agoSounds like the perfect group of people to take financial advantage of.
- baz00 3y agoThat is fine until they make much more money exploiting people than I did exploiting them.
- disjunct 3y agosnagg.ing
- throwaway894345 3y agohope no one is squatt.ing on it
- BuyMyBitcoins 3y agoI prefer the term Scalping, it’s much more accurate.
- blacksmith_tb 3y agoYou could always settle for eff.ing, for a mere $116.99/yr.
- zarmin 3y agoor f.ing for $129,999/yr
- saghm 3y agoI know one-letter domains are popular, but honestly this doesn't seem worth 10x fuck.ing at least to me
- throwaway447 3y agoYou might settle for squirt.ing ....
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- binarymax 3y agoElectronic-Frontier-Foundation-ing?
- benatkin 3y agoSomething I should probably do more of...
- btschaegg 3y ago…and then sell wooden furniture there :D https://wiki.lspace.org/Effing_Forest https://wiki.lspace.org/Effing_Forest
- TRiG_Ireland 3y agoNot only furniture. Also proper carpentry. Remember the Effing Stairs.
- throwaway447 3y agoRemember when fuck.yu became fuck.me ?
- ivanmontillam 3y agoI remember clearly the irony back then!
- ncpa-cpl 3y agoDid domains from parts of Yugoslavia have to migrate to Montenegro? :P
- huhtenberg 3y agoclusterfuck.ing though is $27/yr
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- bognition 3y ago> Starting today, you can register .ing domains as part of our Early Access Period (EAP) for an additional one-time fee. This fee decreases according to a daily schedule until December 5
- abroadwin 3y agoI miss the early days of the internet when the playing field was level. You could actually get a really cool/good/interesting domain just by thinking of it first, not by being rich.
- az226 3y agoThere should be some system in place like you can only have X% of domains not being actively used for a legitimate purpose. And if you fall below, you will need to pick Y domains to relinquish or they will be randomly relinquished for you.
- hn8305823 3y agoWell there are annual registration fees and those add up quickly if you are squatting on 1000's of domains for 10+ years.
- mywittyname 3y agoDefine legitimate. There are plenty of domains that point to simple images. I'm with you in spirit, but this is a hard problem to solve.
- abroadwin 3y agoI'd at least define it as "not just parked for profit."
- arp242 3y agoBut it's trivial to just put something on these domains like Wikipedia picture of the day or whatnot, and who's to say that's not "valid"? It's just that no one bothers now because they don't need to. In principle I agree, but I don't really see how it can be solved in a practical way without a lot of collateral damage.
- joe5150 3y ago
- thedaly 3y agoI hate the premium domain concept.
- andersrs 3y agoConspiracy theory here: if you go to a big player like GoDaddy they'll sell their queries and some party will see the domain you want and squat it unless you register right away. Just use the whois command in your terminal.
- squigz 3y agoThis is the only conspiracy theory I subscribe to as well, and will never be convinced otherwise.
- andersrs 3y agoAre you the one person that believes Epstein killed himself?
- asylteltine 3y agoThey claim they don’t but you know they ABSOLUTELY DO
- dsgnr 3y agoNetworksolutions does this, godaddy doesnt.
- joshxyz 3y agoso does namecheap.
- phyzome 3y agoI remember some claim that whois servers were doing this.
- janalsncm 3y agoUnlike most conspiracy “theories” which are unfalsifiable, this should be pretty easy to prove or disprove. Just search for some random plausibly appealing domains and check to see if they’re registered 24-72 hours later. It’s not a particularly difficult or clever test to run, so I’m definitely not the first person to come up with it. It’s the kind of thing that’s big news if true but a non-story if false. The fact that no one has found it to be true suggests to me that it’s not happening.
- codingdave 3y agoIt is worse than that - it costs $38,000 if you pre-register to buy it in December. It costs $1.3 Million if you want to snag it today. This is beyond a money grab.
- sgjohnson 3y ago> this whole thing is a blatant money grab. Well, Google has to diversify away from being a glorified ad agency. And they are becoming so detached from the reality that more and more people are starting to see them as complete scumbags.