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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 paulpauper »

junto wrote: post #20
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.

yeah but this can be done for much less and if the domain is actually worth anything (it has backlinks, age, and traffic) you will pay for more than $99 since you will be competing with many other bidders. This is a huge industry and you're competing with Russians , eastern Europeans and others who scan for domains thousands of times a minute and check them for rankings and other factors...Very seldom does a good domain drop unnoticed, unlike years ago before this industry took off. Either you pay too much for a worthless domain in or you pay the full price in auction.

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

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Post by cwilkes »

Shank wrote: post #13
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.

So it mostly services domain squatters.

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Post by ca98am79 »

mef wrote: post #22

His hn profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ca98am79 Other projects, including what appears to be an initiative to start a new religion? ( http://consciousness.io/ ) http://humb.ly/projects.html

Haha yes - that's my new religion based on consciousness. I thought there needed to be more innovation in religion, so I started one

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

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Post by ca98am79 »

marcusgarvey wrote: post #7
csallen wrote: post #2

For those getting a 502, I'm working on the server, Elastic Beanstalk didn't scale fast enough >. Cached version here: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:F0QdH3... Or if you refresh a few times, it should come up.

You mention that you use a newsletter and weekly blog posts as part of your marketing strategy. Content marketing can be such a time suck. Have you found ways to automate any parts of these processes?

I automate the newsletter and tweets, but I actually write the blog posts

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

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Post by icebraining »

cwilkes wrote: post #25
Shank wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So it mostly services domain squatters.

The squatter's business model is to buy a lot of domain very cheaply, in the hopes that one sale will cover a lot of bad purchases. Paying $99/domain and having to register each manually (the API is readonly) goes completely against that MO.
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