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I tried looking for myfirstname.com and it is completely inactive and private registration for the last 20 years. I am not even sure how would I go about placing a bid. It is an uncommon name not in English dictionary. Possibly my namesake bought it 20 years ago and has done absolutely nothing (not even placed parking on it). How could I even contact them?
Use a broker for $100.
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The claim is that we saw traffic patterns on the .com mirror that of the .io even though nothing was on it yet and we had not migrated. Our inference or best guess based on the above is that people were typing supertokens.com directly in the URL bar on the browser. Like you said - I would not have expected that (and still doubt it) but dont have any alternative explanations for why that would be the case. Our agency…
Not being into web development at all, how can you see "traffic patterns" for a domain you do not own or control?
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Yea expired card is what scares me the most, I think these days theoretically that shouldn’t be a problem because cc companies will proactively send out the new info to companies charging recurring payments (which can be good and bad).
All my current registrars support backup cards, and they've gotten a lot better about warning in advance. If they really matter, extend registration for 10 years and keep adding one annually.
The bigger issue is that if your registrar sends a lot of spammy emails (ahem godaddy) you might miss the message reminding you to replace your expired cards.
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The vast majority of whois records are privacy protected nowadays. So a broker usually does a bit extra.
Sorry to push, but what extra do they do?
Also, I'd hate to pay a broker $100 just to be told that they can't do anything.
Now commission based I could see myself doing that.
Then again I am not willing to go 5 figures for a vanity domain - more like mid 4 figures just like the guys in the article.
That is a great and very transparent write-up, I'd say the best I've read in years. Usually companies don't disclose the final price. My dream .com domain name is squatted by somebody in Korea owning 10.000s of domains. One year they forgot to pay their registration, 'whois' printed 'overdue' (can't remember the exact words). I tried to register, backorder, everything. Nothing worked sadly.
I've been looking at the domain lifecycle lately, and it can take a couple of months after the expiration date for it to actually become available for registration. I'd check with whois on the command line.
For about 3 months, I checked the whois weekly. Some company was holding it. I never visited the domain in any way, to help the domain feel dead to their analytics.
Then one day, the whois result matched what you get from whois-ing a bunch of random letters with .com. It was finally released. I registered it from a company like namesilo or porkbun for the standard .com price.
I am the proud owner of my own firstnamelastname.com When I first ventured into web hosting, the domain was dead, but still registered. I did a whois and got Firstname Lastname. Not sure what I expected, really. After some years I randomly checked with my favorite registrar, and it was suddenly available for $15/yr. Immediately grabbed that, no regrets. A couple of years ago, I got a series of emails from some broker…
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that's been a big thinker for me as well; wth no real solution yet.. first@firstlast.example seem rather redundant; like saying "John John Doe". I guess if it was a business it would make more sense; like "John, owner of John Doe Inc." and "Bob, assistant for John Doe Inc." but for a personal domain... eh. Similarly mail@ email@ seem 'too obvious' since.. of course it's email? Directional local parts like talkto@ to@…
How about something like me@firstlast.com?