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My take on domains is that they are way too cheap. I would love to pay $500 per year for a domain that I sincerely NEED. Domain is indeed a good start, but beca
by joering2 15y ago
My take on domains is that they are way too cheap. I would love to pay $500 per year for a domain that I sincerely NEED. Domain is indeed a good start, but because they are so cheap to grab, there is a "dictionary rat race" to hold on to every possible word that dictionary has to offer. I think this fact alone played a huge role in entrepreneurs giving up on "awesome" names and just going along with creating a new words: like flickr instead of flicker, plus hundred other examples.
- ebaysucks 15y agoThis would eliminate a lot of hobby blogs and websites that made the internet such a great place. As someone who paid $8000 for his domain, I don't believe domains are currently overpriced. You can buy prime real estate on the internet for less than than the quarterly lease companies are paying for physical prime real estate in shopping areas.
- citricsquid 15y agoA website I started for $10 turned into a website doing millions of dollars of revenue a year. I would not have started that website if the domain cost me $500 because I didn't have $500. Hiking prices isn't the solution, all that would do is exclude "the little guy" and increase the resell values of domains, further excluding smaller organisations / individuals.
- joering2 15y agowhats that website address?
- citricsquid 15y agohttp://minecraftforum.net http://minecraftforum.net http://minecraftwiki.net http://minecraftwiki.net both set up for $10 (each) at a point where I was unemployed, had nothing beyond the few $ I made freelancing, both now doing over 1,000,000,000 page views a year (with adverts). Wouldn't have existed if domains were priced at $20 or more each (I had $40 to my name at the time, if I remember correctly).
- lubos 15y agoyou must be the guy who did AMA on Reddit a few weeks ago. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/q6xkg http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/q6xkg
- dennisgorelik 15y agoIt took you less than 3 years bootstrapping? (minecraftforum.net is registered June 2009). Congratulations!
- citricsquid 15y agoWe were profitable the day we decided to take revenue (2010), but we're not really a good example of bootstrapping or startups doing well or anything like that because we were supported by the success of Minecraft, we succeeded because Minecraft succeeded, not because we did anything.
- dennisgorelik 15y agoWhat did you live on prior to taking revenue (in 2010)?
- citricsquid 15y agoI started the websites when I was 17 (I'm 20 now) just out of high school and living with my parents, so I lived off of them (and paid rent with freelancing money and at one point I was on unemployment benefits).
- staunch 15y agoThose are actually a special case. You're trading on someone else's trademark, that's what made those domains work. Usually domains like this are shutdown with an UDRP. If I could register domains like AmazonDeals.com I could make a killing too, but they would get shutdown instantly.
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- unimpressive 15y agoAdding artificial monetary barriers to the web is probably the antithesis of it's purpose in the eyes of the nerds and geeks who made it.