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Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by cloudjacker »

paulpauper wrote: post #10

You backorder the domain. If we get it and you are the only bidder, you pay $99 and the domain is yours. lol then why bother paying $99. just pick it up from any registrar for $9 after it drops

Literally any other tld right

.dance and .party have been fun lately

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by Shank »

EGreg wrote: post #9

So this guy is a domain squatter? And all you need to do to become one is add a script? I always assumed there was special access to top tier domain snatchers or they had some sort of high-speed trading thing with a fast uplink.

No, a squatter buys domains and holds them. Park.io lets you buy a domain that's going to expire before it expires and transfer it to you and charge you if and only if it registers it before it gets sold.

Some of these domains (https://app.park.io/domains/view/algorithmic.ly) actually look pretty neat, and I could totally see this being a good market to be in.

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Post by elorant »

paulpauper wrote: post #10

You backorder the domain. If we get it and you are the only bidder, you pay $99 and the domain is yours. lol then why bother paying $99. just pick it up from any registrar for $9 after it drops

Because you won't be quick enough to order it, unless you start writing some scripts which isn't viable if you only want a couple of domains. The premium is to guarantee peace of mind. I also find it expensive but I can see its merits.

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Post by morganvachon »

wyager wrote: post #6
blaisio wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah you usually need to warm it up if you're about to expect a lot of traffic because it can't really deal with that. That really shouldn't be an issue for a site like this though, because you can just host it on a CDN...

Top of HN traffic peaks at maybe 50-100 visitors per second. Unless you're serving a bunch of data, it really shouldn't be an issue. One problem I've run into is (I suspect) running out of sockets because they weren't getting recycled fast enough. This went away when I switched to Snap or Happstack. I used to have to "fix" this by killing and restarting my server every five minutes.

> Top of HN traffic peaks at maybe 50-100 visitors per second.

That's true, but HN posts tend to go viral on other tech news sites. It's likely the majority of the traffic spikes are not originating on this site's link. I could be wrong though.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by junto »

paulpauper wrote: post #10

You backorder the domain. If we get it and you are the only bidder, you pay $99 and the domain is yours. lol then why bother paying $99. just pick it up from any registrar for $9 after it drops

I think the point is that he picks it up before anyone else does in your behalf.

He's doing the equivalent of standing in line for you outside the Apple store on iPhone 7 release day and then charging you a premium for his services.

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