The .blog Bait and Switch • Hacker News Board

Re: The .blog Bait and Switch

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Post by echelon » Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 5:37 PM UTC

AndrewStephens wrote: post #25

stephenr wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how much to buy "my.horse". Then I can setup a sole mailbox "look", and have it auto respond to any messages with "my horse is amazing". I wonder how may will get the joke.

I have a .horse domain - I tried every permutation horse puns and in-jokes (my.lovely.horse, etc) but they were all taken by squatters or reserved for stupid prices. Eventually I settled for sheep.horse, which is easy to remember but not much else.

Nice! I bought jungle.horse and put my Donald Trump text to speech engine there. These domains are so ridiculous.

Re: The .blog Bait and Switch

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Post by SamBam » Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 5:39 PM UTC

octasimo wrote: post #6

I've also got stood up with fashion.blog. Full refund and no invitation to auction. I haven't even bothered to ask for details, because that was their way of assessing and freezing the domain names that people would be interested in buying.

> because that was their way of assessing and freezing the domain names that people would be interested in buying.

Indeed. Seems like it would be easy for them to use the auction to automatically see "300 people tried to claim this domain, it must be a good one, let's make it premium."

They wouldn't need to spend a penny doing market research to select the premium names themselves.

Re: The .blog Bait and Switch

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Post by intrasight » Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 5:39 PM UTC

I fail to understand the purpose of these non-standard TLDs. Nobody is going to remember or type in such a domain, so you stuff is only going to be found by a web search - where a standard domain would be better. So why not just register a .com - which are also cheaper?

Re: The .blog Bait and Switch

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Post by cschidle » Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 5:43 PM UTC

mikegedelman wrote: post #22

> Perhaps it's not fair to call this bait & switch. Really it was bait & refund The title of this article was a bait & switch.

I was being generous when I wrote that line. But I maintain that clearly stating it will go to auction then pulling the auction is a "switch".

Re: The .blog Bait and Switch

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Post by jamchris » Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 5:48 PM UTC

intrasight wrote: post #33

I fail to understand the purpose of these non-standard TLDs. Nobody is going to remember or type in such a domain, so you stuff is only going to be found by a web search - where a standard domain would be better. So why not just register a .com - which are also cheaper?

> So why not just register a .com

Because the name you wish to register is not available as .com domain.

> Nobody is going to remember or type in such a domain

I don't think this is true, I live in Europe and we have tons of country tlds, people use and remember them.

Also is chris.blog really so much longer to type then chris.com or a lot harder to remember? I don't agree.

At first it might feel strange to type something else then .com but as I said in europe we have country tlds and it works well.

Re: The .blog Bait and Switch

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Post by jamchris » Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 5:53 PM UTC

coldcode wrote: post #3

I signed up too and then saw the ridiculous prices and policies. Happy to stick with .com for 10 bucks.

Like the author I would also have no problem in paying a few of several hundred dollars as an initial registration one time fee, for a domain like chris.blog.

I would really prefer using chris.blog instead of buying a .com domain like this-is-chriss-development-blog.com, just because any shorter .com domain is already taken.

Re: The .blog Bait and Switch

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Post by pc86 » Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 5:58 PM UTC

jeremymcanally wrote: post #14

This is very common with these new TLD's. At least they didn't give it to you for a year then jack up the price. I had jacki.party as a fun domain for my wife that she didn't end up using, but after a year the price went from like $29/yr to $2,495/yr. because they decided it was "premium." There was nothing my registrar could do because it was the domain registry who decided that, so I just let it lapse. Why is a ver…

The problem is that it only takes a few hits at $2500/yr to make it worth it to screw a bunch of people out of an already overpriced domain.

So if you serve 15,000 people with .party domains at $29/yr each, you only need 175 people to pay $2,495 and you've already made more money.

I don't mind paying more for a domain, I might even pay a measurable amount of money every month for the right one, but trying to insist that jacki.party is worth $210/mo is bananas.

Re: The .blog Bait and Switch

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Post by cschidle » Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 5:59 PM UTC

chriswwweb wrote: post #23

The ICANN whois also does not give any information, there is just a copyright message from Nominet UK https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=chris.blog Maybe the domain got bought during the sunrise period by a copyright holder!? https://my.blog/launch-plan/

The reply I received from get.blog support (last image in the post) stated that "chris.blog ended up being part of the list of reserved domains that are not available for registration". So I imagine they'll either keep it internal or sell it as a premium domain.

Re: The .blog Bait and Switch

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Post by cdubzzz » Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 6:02 PM UTC

AndrewStephens wrote: post #18

As a fellow very-common-name sufferer, I long ago gave up any hope of getting a vanity domain name (how I wish I had paid the $25 back in 1996). Most of the new TLD seem pretty scammy to me, the costs in obtaining and running most obscure TLDs far outweigh what could be got by paying customers actually waiting to run sites off them. I suspect that a lot of them are just hoping that enough large companies buy up kfc.b…

> As a fellow very-common-name sufferer

When I started reading this post, I clicked the get.blog link first and wondered if chris.blog might be available. I assumed not and didn't check before going back to the article and seeing the topic domain, hah.

Re: The .blog Bait and Switch

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Post by pavel_lishin » Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 6:03 PM UTC

AndrewStephens wrote: post #25

stephenr wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how much to buy "my.horse". Then I can setup a sole mailbox "look", and have it auto respond to any messages with "my horse is amazing". I wonder how may will get the joke.

I have a .horse domain - I tried every permutation horse puns and in-jokes (my.lovely.horse, etc) but they were all taken by squatters or reserved for stupid prices. Eventually I settled for sheep.horse, which is easy to remember but not much else.

I'm glad that someone snagged hoarse.horse and is doing more with it than I would have.

not.horse is available, too, if someone wants to tell that joke via a TLD.

And of course, bad.horse is exactly what you expect it to be.