"so I wrote a script that checked the domain every second and sent me an email if it was available."
Whats the use of checking it _every second_ if you still need to manually act upon your email?
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#172I find it shocking that you would post on HN; "Hey guys, I make $125k/mo making other peoples lives harder". Given the way your current infrastructure is configured (vulnerabilities and all)... somebody could probably cost you ~$30-70k/mo in AWS resource utilization at a cost of ~$600/mo. The moment you park on the domain of someone who shares your internet ethics, that will be an interesting day for you.
How is it unethical to provide a platform that allows people get domains that they'd otherwise have almost no chance of getting?
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
Squatters are the ultimate douchebags of the Internet era. I there should be some sort of tax for squatting a domain name. I.e first 10 domains names are cheap then they get expensive.
There is a tax: it is the domain renewal fee.
The tax is clearly not high enough to keep people playing nice.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Squatters are the ultimate douchebags of the Internet era. I there should be some sort of tax for squatting a domain name. I.e first 10 domains names are cheap then they get expensive.
why not something like this: Every domain sold would be for the same price (10 per year or whatever), no secondary markets or private deals.
You can't enforce that. Nothing's stopping me from selling my domain to the highest bidder, taking their money in cash, and then doing whatever $10 transaction through ICANN.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
More like someone occupying lots of parking spots outside the mall, then charging many times the price for you to park there. Or take up many seats in public transportation, then charge people extra to sit, or hold seats until their friends come aboard.
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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.
Recently I let a domain expire. I found out, that in those 75 days, I had to pay $180 instead of $20 for the same domain (namecheap). So, its not the same as leasing an apartment - I think.
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#178"so I wrote a script that checked the domain every second and sent me an email if it was available." Whats the use of checking it _every second_ if you still need to manually act upon your email?
Don't you check your email every second?
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Recently I let a domain expire. I found out, that in those 75 days, I had to pay $180 instead of $20 for the same domain (namecheap). So, its not the same as leasing an apartment - I think.
It is the same price for 27 (I think) days after expiry though. If you've managed to miss the notifications that your domain is about to expire and then still not noticed for another month it's on you when the redemption price needs paying. Set it to auto-renew.
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#180"so I wrote a script that checked the domain every second and sent me an email if it was available." Whats the use of checking it _every second_ if you still need to manually act upon your email?
That's what he thought, so he build park.io. Did you finish reading the article?