Meet the 'Mann' who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours
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Re: Meet the 'Mann' who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours
#2I've only once been able to snag a domain on the drop (everymentor.com). Though I've tried dozens of times for various domains, I always get beaten to the punch.
What kind of resources do these guys have? Hundreds of EC2 instances pounding registrars for good domains? I'm surprised registrars allow it.
Re: Meet the 'Mann' who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours
#3I dont know what to say ! i get angry when i see a domain name that i want being parked on and going to absolute waste, but on the other hand the business this guy has created and the money he has made could be viewed as a smart hack in some perverse way. He has basically seen a market where no one else did in the early days (or only few did) and has managed to capitalize of it very sweetly (all of which he did skillfully and legally).
Re: Meet the 'Mann' who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours
#4I've only once been able to snag a domain on the drop (everymentor.com). Though I've tried dozens of times for various domains, I always get beaten to the punch. What kind of resources do these guys have? Hundreds of EC2 instances pounding registrars for good domains? I'm surprised registrars allow it.
I accidentally let one of mine lapse and it was snatched minutes later. The Whois is private so I can't see who bought it, though one thing is for sure, they left the DNS pointing to one of my main blogs (albeit a defunct blog which I deleted yet Blogger never took offline. In turn, the defunct blog has the same name as the the right/original one). I can't get too mad since it still references the right location. Even when out of my hands, I get to stick it to the Mann.
Re: Meet the 'Mann' who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours
#5I dont know what to say ! i get angry when i see a domain name that i want being parked on and going to absolute waste, but on the other hand the business this guy has created and the money he has made could be viewed as a smart hack in some perverse way. He has basically seen a market where no one else did in the early days (or only few did) and has managed to capitalize of it very sweetly (all of which he did skill…
Surely, it is legal and indeed a hack. But still, not morally correct!
Re: Meet the 'Mann' who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours
#6I bought a domain today, and I ended up having to come up with a bunch of synonyms for what I wanted and using a script to see if any of them were available.
I guess I support the entrepreneurial spirit, but at the same time I kind of hope that guy gets hit by a truck.
Re: Meet the 'Mann' who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours
#7I think we should institute a Homesteading Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_principle) for domains. You can claim a domain as long as you use it for a legitimate purpose instead of just parking on it. There would be details to hash out for sure, but in the end I think we would have a much better system in place.
Re: Meet the 'Mann' who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours
#8Fuck this guy.
Re: Meet the 'Mann' who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours
#9I bought a domain today, and I ended up having to come up with a bunch of synonyms for what I wanted and using a script to see if any of them were available. I guess I support the entrepreneurial spirit, but at the same time I kind of hope that guy gets hit by a truck.
Entrepreneurs build things. Domain snatchers/ squatters are not entrepreneurs.
Re: Meet the 'Mann' who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours
#10I dont know what to say ! i get angry when i see a domain name that i want being parked on and going to absolute waste, but on the other hand the business this guy has created and the money he has made could be viewed as a smart hack in some perverse way. He has basically seen a market where no one else did in the early days (or only few did) and has managed to capitalize of it very sweetly (all of which he did skill…
Surely, it is legal and indeed a hack. But still, not morally correct!
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