who was your domain broker? My company really needs to find one.
How and why we acquired our .com domain
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Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain
#32> There was no doubt that .com has a better brand than .io. Ten years ago, there was still some merit to this. Given changes to browsers and search engines, I believe this has a "vanity license plate" level of importance today. > There is no definite way of isolating the importance of the .com but it is likely to have played a part. "We have no way of knowing if traffic would be as high or higher if we stuck with .io…
I think this section is fairly compelling:
"One of the first things we noticed was that the traffic patterns between supertokens.io (our actual domain) and supertokens.com were nearly identical. Whenever our .io traffic had a big spike, so did the .com, even though there was nothing on it yet. More importantly, these spikes meant that a significant portion of potential users went to supertokens.com directly."
If they're driving traffic spikes to a domain squatter - probably reasonable to assume owning both those domains is helping.
Plus - 8k is a pittance, all things considered.
Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain
#33Honestly the key is to be patient. Put it a low-ball offer on a .com you want then wait. They'll reject initially, then they'll contact you again every couple months to see if you're still interested. Keep the low-ball offers going, maybe increasing by very small increments. Eventually you will catch them in a moment where the seller is desperate and then you strike a deal. I got a 6 letters .com domain for $3k down…
I got one of my personal domains back for $100 after years of various different squatters asking between $2k and $10k for it. "Literally no one else will ever buy this particular domain from you, take the win" finally worked.
I'd like [my last name].com but a domain squatter has it and wanted over $10,000.
I put in a low ball offer and they wouldn't budge. I told them they were crazy. I have an uncommon name that very few people would want so I may try your tactic.
Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain
#34Slightly off-topic, but: Gandi was my registrar of choice, but I read some months ago that they've sold out. Who do people go to these days for registering domain names?
Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain
#35Slightly off-topic, but: Gandi was my registrar of choice, but I read some months ago that they've sold out. Who do people go to these days for registering domain names?
Google Domains: https://domains.google/ The last time I used it, it was around 12$/year at the minimum.
Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain
#36Slightly off-topic, but: Gandi was my registrar of choice, but I read some months ago that they've sold out. Who do people go to these days for registering domain names?
I went with Porkbun a few years ago, they seemed to be popular and recommended at that time. Zero issues, simple dashboard, low prices.
Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain
#37Slightly off-topic, but: Gandi was my registrar of choice, but I read some months ago that they've sold out. Who do people go to these days for registering domain names?
CloudFlare and Internet.bs are no-nonsense registrars I like at the lowest prices on the web.
Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain
#38Slightly off-topic, but: Gandi was my registrar of choice, but I read some months ago that they've sold out. Who do people go to these days for registering domain names?
Google Domains: https://domains.google/ The last time I used it, it was around 12$/year at the minimum.
Trusting Google with your domains is honestly nuts.
Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain
#39Based on the URL, and being completely unfamiliar with the author, I assumed this was about advaitruia.com, so I was surprised that anyone would be squatting on such an unusual name in the first place.
You might want to put the actual supertokens.com domain name in the title to avoid this confusion. HN is certainly not the only site that highlights the domain name of submitted URLs.
Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain
#40Thanks for the detailed process and the cool project.
Do you have any plans to support Ping Federate? Since they took over Auth0 from Okta, they have raised prices like hell and a project like this really makes sense.