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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.
Curious, how’d you lose it? Expired cc?
For the last several years, bitcoin and crypto related domain names have been really hot and selling at high prices. supertokens.com would make a great crypto business name, this would have been in the seller's mind when he set the price. I'm surprised that your domain broker didn't mention it.
When I came up with the idea for finl, I was not entirely surprised that finl.com was squatted, and given that finl is unlikely to ever make money (since my business plan is to not be a business), the asking price of $53,000 is entirely out of line. I maybe will switch to a different tld than .xyz at some point in the future, but for now, barring a lottery win (which would require buying a lottery ticket, I suppose),…
> barring a lottery win (which would require buying a lottery ticket, I suppose) It's not impossible to win the lottery without buying ticket. Someone can give you one. You could find one on the street. etc. There's also saying "buying a lottery ticket only very slightly increases your odds of winning it".
The only likely exceptions I'm aware of that don't require either cheating or inside information are atypically large progressive jackpots without commensurate increases in ticket sales (unlikely exceptions include finding exploitable patterns in inadequately randomized draws before they're otherwise brought to the attention of lottery operators).
For the record, my own personal net lottery winnings total nearly $400, consisting almost entirely of gifts and winning scratch-offs I've picked up off the ground (slightly more than $400 in winnings less $5–10 I've spent buying three or four tickets in my life).
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> barring a lottery win (which would require buying a lottery ticket, I suppose) It's not impossible to win the lottery without buying ticket. Someone can give you one. You could find one on the street. etc. There's also saying "buying a lottery ticket only very slightly increases your odds of winning it".
Worse: buying a ticket generally decreases your expected net lottery winnings, as the expected value of a lottery ticket is almost always lower than its purchase price. The only likely exceptions I'm aware of that don't require either cheating or inside information are atypically large progressive jackpots without commensurate increases in ticket sales (unlikely exceptions include finding exploitable patterns in inad…
My total winnings in a lifetime is $2.
There was some group that determined that it was possible to get a return of slightly over 1.0 on lottery tickets (I forget all the parameters, although the one I remember was playing numbers only greater than 31 to reduce the odds of sharing the jackpot with people who play birthdays/anniversaries/etc) and the return time to get slightly over 1.0 was several thousand years (this is all based on memories that are 30ish years old, so I may have some details wrong).
I'm so surprised that squatting on tens of thousands of domains is still allowed, after decades of squatters being a problem. Have any proposals for dealing with this gotten any traction?
In our country we have a problem with exchanges giving horrendous rates to tourists (like 16 for 1 EUR instead of fair 24). Governor of central bank was asked why they don't stop it. He replied that they in theory could but seems like people are using such services and if they intervene then they are disrupting a free market. They are offering a service and they have customers. Should they stop them just because they…
I'm so surprised that squatting on tens of thousands of domains is still allowed, after decades of squatters being a problem. Have any proposals for dealing with this gotten any traction?
I've been trying to buy a domain for 15 years. I'm the only one interested in it. But still haven't been able to close the deal as it's too expensive.