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This sounds like plain old domain squatting. Think of it from the "customers" point of view. I think that prettypinksnowflake.com is just the domain that I coul
by peterhi 17y ago
This sounds like plain old domain squatting. Think of it from the "customers" point of view. I think that prettypinksnowflake.com is just the domain that I could use for my project only to find you have already registered it with no intention of going anything with it but squatting on it until a buyer comes along.
So you are planning to be a domain squatter and all this talk of "value" is just so much BS. However domain squatting isn't illegal (as such) and some people seem to be making a living at it so a viable business model.
So forget the "value" you think that you are adding and start to work on the economics of domain squatting. How much will you be buying the domains for? How many of those will you sell, what is break even?
And remember that this is already a crowded market, there aren't many good, correctly spelt, English domain names just lying around and guessing which style of misspelling will become popular could be expensive. Perhaps you should look into non English language squatting?
- peterhi 17y agoAnd I will now see how long it takes for prettypinksnowflake.com to become registered :)
- growt 17y agoWell I'm aware that it is a thin line between sqatting and my idea (maybe it is sqatting after all, thats why I asked). The difference would be, that the majority of buyers would not think of a domain name and then discover that I registered just that name. Instead they would enter the "shop" and look around for some name they like (and hadn't thought of themselves). Of course there is no way to prevent that the first thing happens (and so it would make me a de facto sqatter everytime that happens).