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by larrys 12y ago
"for seller to transfer the domain to broker/escrow agent/middle-man" Well to start domains aren't transferred to these parties these parties merely facilitate the transfer by way of others that have a stake for one
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by larrys 12y ago
One problem with reading a post on domains and trying to then buy one is that you are doing it one or three times perhaps but the person who is selling has done it thousands of times and in general (if they own large quantities of domains)
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by larrys 12y ago
" (2) the domain transfer market is terrible and ripe for someone smart to wreak havoc on the existing players." The only thing that could wreak havoc on the existing system (which has multiple players) is hiring a consultant who
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by larrys 12y ago
Yet they use a .com for their own domain.
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by larrys 12y ago
"The term "hipster" " I would say a hipster is someone who thinks that everyone else has it all wrong and is missing the obvious right way to dress, think, live or do something. Which the hipster has all figured out. Th
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by larrys 12y ago
Algorithm wise it would make sense that google would rank things like this as less worthy. For one thing most authoritative domains for pagerank purposes are not going to have these "hacks" they are going to have the usual suspect
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by larrys 12y ago
Well in theory if they didn't cure the defects (and they most certainly will) all the registrations would get transferred to another registrar (because they would loose their ICANN accreditation). But this is more of a black mark of sl
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by larrys 12y ago
Background on the ICANN audit program that this refers to. http://www.icann.org/en/resources/compliance/audits
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Namecheap notified of breach of registrar accredition by ICANN [pdf](icann.org)
15 points by larrys 12y ago|4 comments
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by larrys 12y ago
Question for the OP, YC, PG, dang, or anyone else. YC owns both startupschool.com and startupschool.org but you have the .com redirecting to the .org While .org can be (and often is used) for anything it is typically associated with organiz
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by larrys 12y ago
"Startup School is a free, one-day event where you'll hear stories and practical advice from founders and investors." Not being a fan of rah rah one day type seminars [1] I'd like to know the percentage of people who att
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by larrys 12y ago
True but in business that is still a model. The idea in business is to make money. Just like in sports the idea is to win the game. Which is not the same as saying "at all possible costs" but nothing really inherently wrong with p
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by larrys 13y ago
"Just like steve jobs was able to call the founder of HP in highschool and ended up getting a job there for the summer." There is nothing that unusual about that now except with tech companies or any other company that is the curr
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by larrys 13y ago
Agree. Would also add that if you lie infrequently you are probably not prepared to know all the potential pitfalls of lying and how the other person can tear you a new one if you want to call it that. Additionally I've noticed a loose
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by larrys 13y ago
Ianal, but in a deposition he would be asked whether they were his tweets or not. If he denied they were, he would be asked further questions and possibly caught in a lie. Such as "is this the only time that your account has been used
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AngelList darling MakeSpace raises $8M Series A (pando.com)
2 points by larrys 13y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 13y ago
> "especially the idea of "not being able to concisely explain what you actually do." > I wonder if you could expand on that?" This is really selling. And it's something that comes in handy in business in ever
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by larrys 13y ago
"If we adopted a single price, it would either force us to lower the price of the other rooms significantly" If you did that though wouldn't people still feel that it was unfair? (The frame of reference would just be lowered)
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by larrys 13y ago
"I'm wondering how Dyn is taking this. " I use dyn as well as run several dns servers in different places [1] My reason for not using this is that it's being offered by google and the obvious fear that they will decide o
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by larrys 13y ago
This seems more like "vet my potential idea" rather than "Show hn". Domain was registered today and we can assume the idea was hatched today if not fairly recently. There is nothing here other than a single page and a wa
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by larrys 13y ago
"I know it is simple math but I think it would be pretty easy to find 1,500 companies" Not really true (I'm in this business for a long long time). First you'd have to market to a much larger pool of companies to end up
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by larrys 13y ago
"the expensive part is the engineering, fitting, and assembly. Not really a fair comparison." Agree. It's headline grabbing for sure. But when you really boil something down the actual material cost isn't always that bi
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by larrys 13y ago
I'm curious why the people who are not in the valley don't go to the valley. Is it because they: a) aren't motivated to b) don't know what the potential is there may not even know what is going on. May not even know abou
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by larrys 13y ago
"that they no longer understand you and jump ship to 'simpler' options" Exactly. And both tech people and people with the ability to understand these incremental changes are not in a position to know what amounts to &quo
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by larrys 13y ago
"I just don't get it." Timing (sometimes) matters. [1] It is entirely possible that they might actually have offerings like this planned but prefer to offer them either later or in stages in order to keep up some type of grow
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by larrys 13y ago
"It's clear from the data that they reliably downvote jerks and trolls" Most people know what a jerk is. Perhaps though you (and others) could define what a troll is for the purpose of interpreting this statement. (Of course
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by larrys 13y ago
"The function of the security community is to help people realize" You say that because you are not on the other end of this and don't suffer any of the consequences as a result of the actions of people who create some of t
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by larrys 13y ago
Nope doesn't work. Gives you same login screen if you aren't already logged in. (I tried the same thing and then tested it on another browser to verify..)
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by larrys 13y ago
To get beyond the paywall search for this: "Google Buys Drone Maker Courted by Facebook"
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by larrys 13y ago
"you have to go there, wait to drop off car, listen to dealership clerk going on and on about expensive 'preventive' repair I should get (any my family friend mechanic tells me none needed), wait a few hours (because of other

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