Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
I hate how so many domain registrars park domains. Like no one wants this domain there have been 0 offers and no one has ever used it but you sit on it and arbitrarily set the value at $200 a year. So stupid.
Me too, there should be a rule against it.
I guess somewhere along the way someone worked out that if a domain is registered then it is probably something someone might want (as opposed to a completely random selection of characters).
So they decided when a domain expires they would register it for the wholesale price then bump the price up to some amount people would pay if they really wanted it. So their $10USD investment in a .com could give them $200USD, and it only needs to work out in one out of every 20 cases to break even.
The numbers might stack up even more in their favour. The .com I wanted, it’s $1000 per month or $30k to own. It used to be owned by an old man who used it for his personal page and there are almost no commercial entity named that. So weird.
If I was thinking about how to automatically assign value, one way might be to bump the price depending on how long it was registered for. If the same person had it registered for 20 years, it probably also has SEO reputation that could be valuable.