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Re: I Got Milk.com

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Post by oao »

danfuzz wrote: post #20
ksaj wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At first I thought this was a Reddit-style pun response, but then I read the linked page. I read it to mean "Yea, I really want to sell it, but it's going to be costly. Otherwise I'm happy to sit on it until a satisfactory offer comes around." Of course, there's nothing wrong with that at all. The page states that research has been done, and there is a perceived value that as of yet hasn't been offered. The domain ow…

FWIW I don't think he actually ever intends to or expects to sell.

I would be willing to bet a very large amount of money that this is the case.

Re: I Got Milk.com

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Post by Gibbon1 »

danfuzz wrote: post #20
ksaj wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At first I thought this was a Reddit-style pun response, but then I read the linked page. I read it to mean "Yea, I really want to sell it, but it's going to be costly. Otherwise I'm happy to sit on it until a satisfactory offer comes around." Of course, there's nothing wrong with that at all. The page states that research has been done, and there is a perceived value that as of yet hasn't been offered. The domain ow…

FWIW I don't think he actually ever intends to or expects to sell.

I have a couple of friends who own various single word or three letter domain names. They universally say that companies attempting to buy their domains tend offer seriously not life changing amounts of money and often resort to threats when rejected.

Consider what if Land o Lakes owned milk.com and you demanded they sell it to you for $5k? Bwhahaahahaha!

Re: I Got Milk.com

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Post by ksaj »

Gibbon1 wrote: post #22
danfuzz wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW I don't think he actually ever intends to or expects to sell.

I have a couple of friends who own various single word or three letter domain names. They universally say that companies attempting to buy their domains tend offer seriously not life changing amounts of money and often resort to threats when rejected. Consider what if Land o Lakes owned milk.com and you demanded they sell it to you for $5k? Bwhahaahahaha!

> not life changing amounts of money

I don't know how high the offers can go these days. But then again, we're not exactly in the dot-com bubble anymore. In 2001 I bet it could have attracted life changing amounts.

Re: I Got Milk.com

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Post by Gibbon1 »

ksaj wrote: post #23
Gibbon1 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a couple of friends who own various single word or three letter domain names. They universally say that companies attempting to buy their domains tend offer seriously not life changing amounts of money and often resort to threats when rejected. Consider what if Land o Lakes owned milk.com and you demanded they sell it to you for $5k? Bwhahaahahaha!

> not life changing amounts of money I don't know how high the offers can go these days. But then again, we're not exactly in the dot-com bubble anymore. In 2001 I bet it could have attracted life changing amounts.

The most a friend of mine got offered for a four letter com domain during the dot com years was $5k. He said he would have sold it for $15k.

I checked he still has it.

Re: I Got Milk.com

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Post by Shorn »

Domain name registration related shenanigans is so weird to me.

Lately I've been getting mail from various folks notifying me that the `.com` equivalent of one of my `.net` domains is going to be available. It's weird to me that it would be worth doing, but I'm assuming they're making money out of it.

Re: I Got Milk.com

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Post by fingerlocks »

Gibbon1 wrote: post #24
ksaj wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> not life changing amounts of money I don't know how high the offers can go these days. But then again, we're not exactly in the dot-com bubble anymore. In 2001 I bet it could have attracted life changing amounts.

The most a friend of mine got offered for a four letter com domain during the dot com years was $5k. He said he would have sold it for $15k. I checked he still has it.

Business.com was sold for $7.5 million at height of the dot com boom. Have you ever visited that site? Neither have I.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business.com

Re: I Got Milk.com

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Post by tga »

danfuzz wrote: post #18
tga wrote: post #17

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He (like most domain squatters) is blocking milk.com from being used for a practical purpose (from what I can tell), hoping to get $10M+ for no other reason than being the first to register it. He is definitely not creating any wealth in the process.

My read on his "value" page is that he doesn't actually want to sell. Assuming he just wants to keep using the domain for his personal site and have the same email address he's had since 1994, would that make it okay for him? Would that still somehow be immoral rent-seeking? What makes those uses of the domain "impractical?" Who is he morally obligated to give or sell the domain to, and if it is to be sold what is a…

Yes, those are good questions.

Re: I Got Milk.com

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Post by dest »

danfuzz wrote: post #11
rognjen wrote: post #10

This gets posted every few months. Every time I wonder how it's not been taken away for squatting. I wonder if (or rather how often) he's had to go to court. Nissan.com has been the target of a few attacks if I recall correctly and is arguably less valuable and much more defensible (since the person who owns it is actually called Nissan).

In what way is this site "squatting?" I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure you can't get a trademark on simple English words like "milk."

what about Apple then?

Re: I Got Milk.com

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Post by danfuzz »

dest wrote: post #28
danfuzz wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In what way is this site "squatting?" I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure you can't get a trademark on simple English words like "milk."

what about Apple then?

Apple doesn't in fact have a blanket trademark on the word "apple."

Re: I Got Milk.com

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Post by Gibbon1 »

fingerlocks wrote: post #26
Gibbon1 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The most a friend of mine got offered for a four letter com domain during the dot com years was $5k. He said he would have sold it for $15k. I checked he still has it.

Business.com was sold for $7.5 million at height of the dot com boom. Have you ever visited that site? Neither have I. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business.com

Yeah sometimes people spend inane amounts of money for things. If someone was willing to pay $7.5 million for milk.com it'd be theirs. But no ones offered even 0.1% of that. So the market says milk.com really isn't worth very much. And the owner of milk.com and my other two friends that own single word domains are using them for their personal websites not squatting on them.
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