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This is such a wild over reaction. There is nothing inherently wrong with domain squatting. Lol. Blame the system, not the people operating within it.
The people operating in it are the system.
I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
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Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
#522Earlier quoted context omitted.
You missed the "mainstream" qualifier from the parent. I am afraid nothing you described here could be considered mainstream, although I'd like to see these things becoming mainstream.
I can see there are a lot of T&C for their claim on "Apple makes great software."
Is the claim in the thread with us?
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Domain squatting is when you buy a domain purely for speculation with no intent of using it.
This person has built something using the domain. They are not squatting it.
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Domain squatting is when you buy a domain purely for speculation with no intent of using it. This person has built something using the domain. They are not squatting it.
He founded a domain brokerage for squatters and seems to be squatting on other domains for ad revenue (read the section about the trade he made).
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#525Earlier quoted context omitted.
Domain squatting is when you buy a domain purely for speculation with no intent of using it. This person has built something using the domain. They are not squatting it.
He founded a domain brokerage for squatters and seems to be squatting on other domains for ad revenue (read the section about the trade he made).
Doesn't strike me as particularly immoral.
Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
#526Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speculators provide time-allocation of resources. They're pretty critical part of market dynamics to help resources get sold and developed when they are valued most. That is, they prevent domains from being captured prematurely for lower value use. Society profits immensely from their contribution.
Hey I get it, we all gotta sleep at night. Tell yourself whatever you like to get them zzz's. As far as ticket scalpers and domain resellers go, my assessment stands: they are bottom feeding zeros providing nothing of value and they can fuck off into the sun.
Down voted because the comment is not providing any new insights and is just insulting.
Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
#527Earlier quoted context omitted.
He founded a domain brokerage for squatters and seems to be squatting on other domains for ad revenue (read the section about the trade he made).
Doesn't strike me as particularly immoral.
I don’t know about immoral, but it is at the very least a bit sleazy. When I look for domains for side projects, I very rarely have to abandon a name because it’s been taken by an actual operational service; it’s almost always because someone is squatting it with a “parking” page filled with sketchy ads that they’re paying almost nothing for. That isn’t doing any good for anyone besides the squatter.
Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
#528The 'tapping phones' gimmick strikes me as something that sounds cute but will become an annoying chore that one should be able to opt out of. Particularly given various unintended side effects -- I personally wouldn't want my connection to my deceased best friend to be subject to some decay feature on a social network. And either way, it's not the core feature that will draw users to the site If you want to differen…
I don't think it's an unintended side-effect. The entire point is to mimic the dynamics of in-person interaction.
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#529Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's a warranted attitude to take a failure to implement plaintext search as part of your text search algorithm as enemy action. Yesterday I ended up at Bing for some reason and typed in the unique name of the site I was looking for and it didn't even come up in the first page; All their competitors did, as well as a couple random SEO farms. This is enshittification to the point of unusability, for an applica…
We need a FOSS nonprofit search engine that works like 2000s google
Arguably we need half a dozen operating on adjacent principles, to fight against engine-specific SEO exploits.
"SEO is a $100 billion industry" = your opponents have a 12 figure war budget.
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We must have read a different article because I read a neat one about how someone bought a domain no one was using.
an article about a new app is an article about a new app, even if self promotional.
an article that spends most of its time talking about the sunshine and roses of purchasing domains from a domain squatter, even if you are a domain squatter, is an article about domain squatting.