I Got Milk.com
milk.com
I Got Milk.com
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#2Why is this being up voted ?
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#3Why is this being up voted ?
Good question!
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#4Good for him.
milk.com was registered back in July 94, same month amazon was created. I suspect that many people have attempted to get control over it via naferious means in the past, however I also get the feeling the value of domain names has decreased since the early 00s -- how many normal people still type in domain names, rather than typing in "milk" and clicking the first result.
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#5Why is this being up voted ?
It might be unrelated but this page was mentioned in a fairly highly upvoted comment on a recent top story here. Dan Bornstein is also a relatively well known engineer.
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#6Check Dan's responses to emails he received over the years. Hilarious!
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#7Way to really milk ownership of the domain.
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#8Did anyone ever come up with a workable method of preventing this kind of rent seeking that plagues domain names?
The best scalable and impartial methods that I’ve seen mentioned were high renewal prices and limits on the number of domains one could own, but I get the feeling neither one would work when there is even a remote chance of extracting >$10M in the end.
Given the current system it’s hard to blame him either — I don’t know whether I would find the altruism to let such a domain expire.
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#9Did anyone ever come up with a workable method of preventing this kind of rent seeking that plagues domain names? The best scalable and impartial methods that I’ve seen mentioned were high renewal prices and limits on the number of domains one could own, but I get the feeling neither one would work when there is even a remote chance of extracting >$10M in the end. Given the current system it’s hard to blame him eithe…
Best thing to do would be to charge Joe Random the same rate (on the order of $10 per domain per year) as the company wanting to buy millions of domains. That way it's much less profitable to camp on domains. Currently companies can get domains for pennies, so they camp on millions, hoping to find some sucker to pay top $.
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#10This 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).