Meanwhile, I can't even figure out how to buy domains with my name in them from people who just buy them and sit on them.
Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
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#53Actually, it turns out http://google.ar/ might still be owned by someone else?
The article talks about google.com.ar, not google.ar. Secondary .ar domains are generaly not available.
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#54I recently sold cryptocomicbook.com and decided to list some additional domains for sale, at the exact time I listed them a handful of ua.(TLDs) got listed for sale including ua.com and whoever listed them must have done it in bulk and given them all the same price ($76).
So I bought the ua.com for $76, at that point the seller must have realized what happened and immediately changed the sales price of all the other TLDs from $76 (example ua.co went from $76 to a min of $48,000), the marketplace confirmed the seller was verified as the owner or had authority to sell ua.com. Of course after the fact the marketplace reversed the transaction, they oddly reconfirmed the seller was verified/legit (I thought they would say the seller got past their verification but wasn’t legit), and they have refused to confirm why if the seller was legit that they reversed the sale transaction.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wouldn't it be funny if DDG was actually Google.
It is using Bing engine and data.
...among other sources. "Over four hundred" [1] of them.
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#56somebody actually posted it as an 'ask hn' last night! I'm actually physically hurting right now. I wonder how much google will pay to get their precious domain back.
Can't they forcefully take it? [0] [0]: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/cybersquatting-2013-05...
what is this then? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26907303
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#57I recently sold cryptocomicbook.com and decided to list some additional domains for sale, at the exact time I listed them a handful of ua.(TLDs) got listed for sale including ua.com and whoever listed them must have done it in bulk and given them all the same price ($76). So I bought the ua.com for $76, at that point the seller must have realized what happened and immediately changed the sales price of all the other…
They reversed it because it was an honest mistake and most people like to know that if they make the same mistake it can be undone.
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#58check this out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26907303
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#59However, minutes later after the manoeuvre, it was confirmed that Google has already recovered the domain. I'm confused. It seems to me that this article just through some lines in it without further explanation.
Nobody knows what happened. Last night someone posted on twitter that google.com.ar was not working, then another one posted a screenshot from the Argentinean domain provider highlighting that the domain was registered by a random guy. Few hours later google.com.ar started working again, probably a single phone call from Google resolved the issue.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is using Bing engine and data.
...among other sources. "Over four hundred" [1] of them. [1] https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/
Those apply only to non-organic results (instant answers, zero-click info). Organic results are proxied from Bing (or sometimes Yandex) verbatim.
DuckDuckGo's crawlers only fetch icons and scrape data for some of their instant answers.