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

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Post by alphapapa »

proksoup wrote: post #151
proksoup wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I can see why a reasonable person would downvote my reply, it's short and adds no value. I don't know what else to say until I know where you're coming from though, I'm honestly asking what do you mean by that quote?

I don't understand what is hard to understand about the Chesterton quote. If someone thinks the answers to life and meaning and purpose lie within himself, he effectively becomes his own god, and therefore effectively worships himself.

Then he dies. What of his meaning and purpose then? If meaning and purpose lie within ourselves, then when we die, meaning and purpose die as well. But that would mean that there is no meaning and no purpose, for how can a being create itself before it has created itself?

Therefore, if we have purpose, if life has meaning, it must come from without, not from within. This is not to say that we don't possess "seeds" of truth and meaning and purpose within us--but they exist only to point us toward the truth, to motivate us to seek answers.

A search for truth that only looks within ourselves is doomed to failure, for we cannot provide answers that we do not have. And if we had the answers, we wouldn't need to search for them. Those who claim that the answers lie within ourselves are deceiving themselves and others with vague platitudes, merely taking a detour on the journey toward the truth--but how tragic a detour if time runs out along the way.

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

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Post by alphapapa »

proksoup wrote: post #159
1123581321 wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It means that there isn't a sublime/perfect id/being/spirit at the core of us, just the same flawed person as is on the outside. So a religion or philosophy of trying to worship or obey some inner perfection ultimately just means doing whatever you feel like, which isn't a good idea let alone worth proselytizing.

I feel it's worth proselytzing in the context of counter balancing the movements which imply some other idea is worth worshipping. It seems like a step up, from worshiping one's priest to worshipping ones self, and maybe after that we (those that see the error in both) can have adult conversations.

> It seems like a step up, from worshiping one's priest to worshipping ones self, and maybe after that we (those that see the error in both) can have adult conversations.

Not that you necessarily intend it, but that is a false dichotomy. If the choices are between worshipping a priest (a human) and worshipping oneself (another human), you're right that the latter is a step up in that it refuses to elevate one human above another.

But it only brings us closer to the truth insofar as worshipping the priest is wrong. It really just brings us back to ground zero. If worshipping the priest is wrong (by "wrong" I mean that the priest is not worthy of worship, because he's just another human), then worshipping any human is wrong, including oneself.

So, either way, you're wrong--that is, you still don't know the truth, and you're still worshipping a human being.

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

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Post by dba7dba »

Reading this article reminds me of a story that got me on the path of Linux, open source and away from Windows career path years ago. I was starting out my IT career as a Windows tech at a company. One guy that was obviously smart, Linux literate, and given a lot of responsibility at the company mentioned that he had scripted a tool to check constantly if a domain that he wanted became available or not. He wanted to make sure he grabbed it as soon as it became available.

It was the first example I saw of someone automating something with some scripting. Coming from Windows side, I was like what~~? Scripting can do that?

This was when Yahoo was the king. (I'm not THAT old).

The thing is this kind of scripting is NOT new. It was done before by others. But with proper execution, park.io is able to generate a million dollar a year. Good for him.

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

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Post by alphapapa »

marknadal wrote: post #48
ca98am79 wrote: post #26

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

While it is good to encourage people not to be judgmental or angry, I have to logically point out that your religion contradicts itself: Stating "judge nothing as "bad" or "evil"' and then stating "you are now free of any judgments, guilt, resistance, anger, or suffering of any kind." suggest that those things are undesirable traits. But isn't that a judgment?

It's amazing how inconsistent people's thinking can be. If nothing were bad or evil, then what's to stop someone who disagrees with him from deciding that this planet would be better off without him on it, and removing him from it? No complaints, now--you said you can't judge anything, and that includes murder. If you're just a pile of goo, what does it matter if another pile of goo destroys you?

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

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Post by flashman »

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.

In 2009 I registered a hyphenless version of a Scientology domain name, and scored tens of thousands of visitors, who I rickrolled.

I would never, ever recommend settling for a hyphenated domain name.

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

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Post by vesak »

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!"

If you dislike government intervention, you should realize that people like this are the prime cause for it.

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

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Post by Mattasher »

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.

This reads like: If you buy good real estate from someone who has a parking lot, you are encouraging people to buy good real estate. Better to buy a swamp an hour out of town and build your business there.

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Post by jomamaxx »

jonknee wrote: post #160
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #155

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>The money could pay for ICANN or whatever. // ICANN seemingly just keeps a very simple database of domain owners. Reportedly their revenue last year was > $200 million. I'm sure they produce lots of interesting documents too but they appear to be minting it already.

> I'm sure they produce lots of interesting documents too but they appear to be minting it already. ICANN is a non-profit organization, they are definitely not "minting it". Feel free to look at their financials and complain: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/adopted-opplan-b...

Just because an organization is 'not profitable' does not mean they are not efficient, and that there aren't stake holders raking it in.

'Non profit' means that investors are not making anything (there are none).

But there are other stake-holders: suppliers, customers, other kinds of financiers (debtors, other financial services), vendors, executives and employees.

They could feasibly be paying themselves 'significantly above market wages', they could be over-paying suppliers and vendors, and hiring far more people than they need, or otherwise operating very inefficiently.

I'm not accusing ICANN of any of this - rather - I'm making the point that their position as 'non profit' doesn't necessarily absolve the organization of 'raking in a lot more money than they need' kind of thing.

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

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Post by jomamaxx »

joelrunyon wrote: post #128
jomamaxx wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If ICANN charged $5 a month for all domains perhaps it would not be so lucrative to sit on domains. Though it would still be profitable for some domains. The money could pay for ICANN or whatever.

Right now, a .io domain is ~$30/year which is $2.5/month. Doubling that wouldn't be that much more of a deterrent.

Good point.

Maybe they could set a 'holding price' that is a function of the likely value of the domain name. I'll bet at $30 a month - a huge basket of names become completely untenable to 'sit on' whereas it would mean little to the business owner, possibly.

This is an age old problem concerning how to deal with public goods. Real estate is the prototypical problem ... we don't consider those buying and selling land - and not using it - to be a problem to the system, whereas we could make the argument they are. In Vancouver and London, they've introduced a tax on housing spaces that are empty, i.e. if you don't live in it, you have to rent it or get hit with a tax.

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