A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

In "Common mistakes" this article first says not to add this record if you're not actually planning to sell the domain, then says that the record doesn't oblige anyone to do anything, that feels quite weird to me.

Re: A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

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Post by dietr1ch » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 2:23 PM UTC

riddlemethat wrote: post #3

Wonderful. Another tool for domain campers. Just what standards bodies should be spending time on…

This is what really sucks about domain names

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Post by TZubiri » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 2:24 PM UTC

my slop detection instinct is so good that I can tell it's slop before even clicking the link. I precogged the neon colors of the website, the pill modals, the 'it's not X, it's Y', the emdashes...

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Post by comrade1234 » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 2:26 PM UTC

Something I've wondered... if you publicly say that a domain is for sale and someone has a trademark for it would you automatically lose in arbitration?

Around 1998 I registered a domain. Sony registered a trademark with the same name a few years after that. Someone on a Gmail account asked if he could buy it - I later found out he worked for Sony. I told him no - it's for a game I've been working on. I went on a vacation for a month and when I got back there was a fedex package filled with documents from Sony saying I'm violating their trademark and they'll take the domain.

I got a lawyer and he told me that I shouldn't offer it for sale as that would show the arbitration board that I don't need the domain. But he also told me that in order to fight the trademark it would probably cost a couple of hundred thousand dollars. So I could keep the domain but not use it for commerce...

In the end I ended up selling it to Sony but through my lawyer - I never stated it was for sale. But this was early on for domains and I wonder what the process is like now.

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Post by spicybright » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 2:27 PM UTC

riddlemethat wrote: post #3

Wonderful. Another tool for domain campers. Just what standards bodies should be spending time on…

I don't get the point, if someone is selling a domain the only content on the site will be advertising that. And you can bet people will forget to delete or not update the record as needed, making it kind of useless.

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Post by mentos » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 2:28 PM UTC

“This domain is somewhat worn.” -UO joke

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Post by collabs » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 2:28 PM UTC

comrade1234 wrote: post #7

Something I've wondered... if you publicly say that a domain is for sale and someone has a trademark for it would you automatically lose in arbitration? Around 1998 I registered a domain. Sony registered a trademark with the same name a few years after that. Someone on a Gmail account asked if he could buy it - I later found out he worked for Sony. I told him no - it's for a game I've been working on. I went on a vac…

Are you allowed to share how much (roughly) you sold it for?