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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 z3t4 »

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…

If you buy a domain from a squatter, you encourage domain squatting. Domains are not that important as most browsers send the url to a search engine. So just register brand-name.com instead of brandname.com. Or pick another TLD.

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

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Post by AsyncAwait »

roflchoppa wrote: post #121

lmao, man i liked when the term "hacker" was directed toward blackhats. This whole "im a hacker" gig is hilarious.

> lmao, man i liked when the term "hacker" was directed toward blackhats.

Well, that usage was incorrect, but I agree that nowadays everyone's calling themselves a hacker of some sort.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

n0us wrote: post #92
rtb wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This guy built a million dollar business in a year providing a service that people want to pay for... I say "Congrats!" More like, this guy built a million dollar business that arbitrages the DNS renewal system by squatting desirable names that he has no plans to use, then rent-seeking from those who do want to use the names. This is not a value-creating enterprise, but a zero-sum trader making money by taking it f…

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

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

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Post by bigtunacan »

victor9000 wrote: post #80
20years wrote: post #35

I don't understand some of the negative comments here. This guy built a million dollar business in a year providing a service that people want to pay for. He did it all on his own with no other co-founders or employees. I say "Congrats!"

I think it has more to do with the fact that we've all wasted countless hours cycling through domain names only to encounter landing pages from squatters like park.io.

Park.io is not a squatting service. There may be some squatters using Park.io to snipe domains, but most big time cyber squatters just write their own version of the service as it's just not that difficult and will end up being cheaper if you are trying to snipe domains in bulk.

I have my own service (as in process, not business) that I can run when I'm interested in sniping a domain. I don't use it in bulk or for squatting. Occasionally I will think "x.com" would be a great domain name that I could use for business idea X. Then of course it turns out it was registered by someone else who never did anything with it. I then add an entry to a SQLite database and turn on the service and forget about it.

Although now that I see how much money this guy is making maybe I need to compete with him...

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ca98am79 wrote: post #26
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

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

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Post by mitchty »

pushrax wrote: post #120
mitchty wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you see a lot of connections in TIME_WAIT? If so I'd just bump up the ephemeral port range via: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range (or sysctl -w) But if you're not getting recycling of TIME_WAIT, you can start to change the reuse/recycle attributes (caveat emptor) with: net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse or net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle I know I have been benchmarking a servant app by throwing 2048 concurrent connections at it a…

tcp_tw_recycle is not what you want. It is only applicable to outgoing connections (i.e. not people connecting to your server), and even in that case provides little benefit over tcp_tw_reuse. I like pointing people here for the explanation: https://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2014-tcp-time-wait-state-l...

True enough, but its hard to diagnose what people are having problems with with such vague wording. Some apps might have to open connections to a backend, or not, etc...

But you're quite right on recycle for outgoing. To be honest I tend to shy away from adjusting either unless I really need to.

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

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Post by notgood »

chatmasta wrote: post #127

This thread is a great example of why not to publicize your revenue or internal systems. At best, you'll get hate and resentment. At worst, you'll get hate, resentment, and a new competitor.

Pretty sure it already had a lot of hate before this article even existed.

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

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Post by notgood »

ca98am79 wrote: post #26
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

We need a new religion as much as we need a new mob. But if you are following the money yeah I'm sure there is a lot of innovations to be done there as well.

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

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Post by dang »

asdfologist wrote: post #78

FYI dang censored my comment about how HNers react to these stories with a jealous and insecure attitude: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12576210

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12576182 and marked it off-topic. Please don't do this again.

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

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Post by joelrunyon »

z3t4 wrote: post #131
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…

If you buy a domain from a squatter, you encourage domain squatting. Domains are not that important as most browsers send the url to a search engine. So just register brand-name.com instead of brandname.com. Or pick another TLD.

MOZ would disagree with you

https://moz.com/community/q/hyphens-in-domain-name

edit: here's a better article actually on it - https://moz.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-domain-name-whiteboard-...

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