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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 icantdrive55 »

ca98am79 wrote: post #66
jondot wrote: post #64

I might get downvoted for this, but here's a story. We just finished picking a brand name, after 2-3 months of intensive work. Being fond of .io's I naivly googled my .io, and found that park.io owns it - this happened last week. I immediately sent an email to inquire. We considered the price, and then when I came to buy it today, a week after, the price is tripled. This was a fixed price domain, NOT bid. That's clev…

Hi sorry this happened - most likely it is owned by a park.io user and they can set the price to whatever they want. Feel free to reach out support@park.io and I will see if I can help

Since you're here, maybe you could help us all understand your business better?

1. You are not getting .io names at a discount from nic.io? No insider deals/information?

2. The Only advantage you have at acquiring an expired domain names at nic.io is your propriatiatry program. A program that is just faster at buying these expiring domains--just faster than your competition?

3. You only know when a .io domain name is due to expire is by looking at the same WHOSIS info we look at?

4. I ask these questions because so many of these domain buying services are just to magical. We tend assume the worst.

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

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Post by ilostmykeys »

opendomain wrote: post #93
jondot wrote: post #64

I might get downvoted for this, but here's a story. We just finished picking a brand name, after 2-3 months of intensive work. Being fond of .io's I naivly googled my .io, and found that park.io owns it - this happened last week. I immediately sent an email to inquire. We considered the price, and then when I came to buy it today, a week after, the price is tripled. This was a fixed price domain, NOT bid. That's clev…

This looks like cybersquatting and may be illegal. Please note: I said it MAY be illegal. There are very special rules when it comes to domains. Some people have a legitimate reason for 'holding' a domain. On quick glance, this looks like a legitimate concern. I am the founder of OpenDomain and we fight cybersquatting - contact me if anyone needs help with domain issues like this.

Yeah this guy (park.io) is getting free PR and manipulating everyone here. It's obvious that he is marketing himself in this thread and calls himself a hacker. The funny part is he has very little hacker credibility if he hasn't been able to get his server up all day.

A big no no is to steal domains that just lapsed on their registration by mere seconds or minutes and then engage in price gouging via a scheme that makes Park.io not legally responsible (because well it's the owner of the domain who had purchased it via Park.io who is doing it, and do we really know that it's that owner or park.io itself hiding behind a some fake user account?)

Anyway, the idea of stealing domains and then ripping off people who are interested in them is really super amoral and stinky.

People should do good in the world, not make it a worse place , and then bate others with how much they make for sake of publicity and more money.

B.S. business model.

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

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Post by proksoup »

blowski wrote: post #91
proksoup wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as religions go it doesn't seem too bad at first glance. I like it. My current favorite quote about religion is from the pianist Seymour Bernstein (in the latest Documentary about him, from Ethan Hawke, titled "Seymour: An Introduction): "I don't call it god, I call it a spiritual reservoir. Most people don't tap that resource of the god within. What upsets me about religion is that the answers always seem to…

GK Chesterton: > That Jones shall worship the god within him turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones.

Yes, this is not good? Better than the alternative?

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

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Post by proksoup »

ivm wrote: post #94
proksoup wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as religions go it doesn't seem too bad at first glance. I like it. My current favorite quote about religion is from the pianist Seymour Bernstein (in the latest Documentary about him, from Ethan Hawke, titled "Seymour: An Introduction): "I don't call it god, I call it a spiritual reservoir. Most people don't tap that resource of the god within. What upsets me about religion is that the answers always seem to…

> The externality, taking someone's individuality and telling them that it's something apart from them, that they don't control it, is also my largest concern with religion and the thing that needs to innovated on. The Buddha innovated on it 25 centuries ago. It didn't prevent people from just praying to him when his philosophy got popular.

Yes.

Buddhism with that rhetoric (that innovation) has persisted more positively than others that lack it I think.

But also, yes.

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

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

Tinyyy wrote: post #50
pbreit wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you think such a thing that easy, you should do it. But it aint.

I'm not trying to be dismissive of his impressive project, but from my perspective, or from a business point of view, it doesn't make sense. While I have no doubts that this was nontrivial to create, history has shown that raw technology alone is rarely enough. Isn't trying to gain some form of lock-in an oft repeated point on HN? Also, could you elaborate? I do wish to understand why, if I was wrong.

What kind of lock-in do you get from starting a convenience store? A repair shop? A McDonald's franchise? Those can all be quite profitable and provide an excellent living.

Simply because competing with him may be "easy," doesn't make the business model any less valid.

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

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Post by vuyani »

20years wrote: post #54
paulpauper wrote: post #21

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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 dom…

I suppose that is why he is making $125,000/month running this business and you aren't. You see no business model here but he obviously did and is benefiting from it. This is the perfect example of why it is not always good to listen to the many naysayers. There are a ton of single purpose things that can be turned into a service. Most people overlook those things because building the next unicorn sounds so much sexi…

well said

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

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Post by joelrunyon »

ilostmykeys wrote: post #102
opendomain wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks like cybersquatting and may be illegal. Please note: I said it MAY be illegal. There are very special rules when it comes to domains. Some people have a legitimate reason for 'holding' a domain. On quick glance, this looks like a legitimate concern. I am the founder of OpenDomain and we fight cybersquatting - contact me if anyone needs help with domain issues like this.

Yeah this guy (park.io) is getting free PR and manipulating everyone here. It's obvious that he is marketing himself in this thread and calls himself a hacker. The funny part is he has very little hacker credibility if he hasn't been able to get his server up all day. A big no no is to steal domains that just lapsed on their registration by mere seconds or minutes and then engage in price gouging via a scheme that ma…

If you read the article or the process about how domains expire, they don't actually get re-released until close to 75 days AFTER the domain actually expires.

If you forgot to renew the lease on your apartment and 75 days later, someone else rented it, it might suck or be annoying, but you'd still have to move.

The easy fix? Set everything to auto-renew & have a backup credit card on file.

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

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Post by Thaxll »

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.

If you don't initiate the connection ( no reverse proxy ) you don't have to recycle sockets, only the nofile / iptables settings matter.

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

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Post by hackerkid »

ilostmykeys wrote: post #102
opendomain wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks like cybersquatting and may be illegal. Please note: I said it MAY be illegal. There are very special rules when it comes to domains. Some people have a legitimate reason for 'holding' a domain. On quick glance, this looks like a legitimate concern. I am the founder of OpenDomain and we fight cybersquatting - contact me if anyone needs help with domain issues like this.

Yeah this guy (park.io) is getting free PR and manipulating everyone here. It's obvious that he is marketing himself in this thread and calls himself a hacker. The funny part is he has very little hacker credibility if he hasn't been able to get his server up all day. A big no no is to steal domains that just lapsed on their registration by mere seconds or minutes and then engage in price gouging via a scheme that ma…

> The funny part is he has very little hacker credibility if he hasn't been able to get his server up all day.

FYI indiehackers and park.io are run by two diffrent individuals. park.io website is still up. It's the indiehackers website that is down.

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