Google lost theirs not long ago :P It does still happen.
On Oct 10, 2016 8:49 PM, "Colin Stanners" <[email protected]> wrote: > The fortune 500 already take care of that stuff, or have lawyers that make > sure you don't want to get on their bad side.. > > Smart guys like Yun Ye alrwady beat you to it. Over 15 years ago he wrote > and ran software to grab interesting and expiring domains, apparently from > his basement. After many years he had a portfolio of 100 000 domains > generating some very lucrative ad impressions, which he sold for $164 > million before deciding to disappear... > > On Oct 10, 2016 8:42 PM, "Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I should setup a bot that just scans for domain expiry for the fortune >> 500 and grabs them when they don't re-register them quick enough. >> >> On Oct 10, 2016 8:40 PM, "That One Guy /sarcasm" < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> ive been buying domains that small businesses i dont like might want and >>> pointing them to https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ like ayerslanding.com >>> they should make domains alot more expensive >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> They will, simply because most of the good .org/.net/.com are being >>>> squatted on, sometimes for millions per domain. >>>> >>>> On Oct 10, 2016 7:59 PM, "Bruce Robertson" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I think those silly long TLDs aren't going to catch on anyway. I >>>>> could be wrong of course, but at least for now I don't plan on spending a >>>>> penny on them. Gimme the old-school 2 or 3 letter TLDs. >>>>> >>>>> On 10/10/16 5:56 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 10/10/16 14:27, Chuck McCown wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I am going to scoop up a few domain names and point them to my site. >>>>>>> Things like surgeprotectors.com are gone. Someone is camping on >>>>>>> them. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So, looking at variations like surge-protection >>>>>>> Adding a plural. Not sure what non alphanumeric typographical >>>>>>> characters are allowed other than the hyphen. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is there any prohibitions against using any TLD like .org? >>>>>>> Is a .org or .info equivalent to a .com when you are looking for >>>>>>> stuff? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Lots of .co, .us and .biz out there. Should be equivalent but >>>>>>> perhaps not? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Need opinions. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> There's a metric ass ton of TLDs now so none of that matters anymore. >>>>>> Except like gov and edu. >>>>>> >>>>>> You could probably even do surge.protection since that's a TLD now. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have a customer that's a contractor that started using the >>>>>> "contractors" TLD instead of the traditional ones. >>>>>> >>>>>> I registered roller.network a while back since minus the dot it's >>>>>> literally the company name. Haven't started using it because I'm not sure >>>>>> people are used to seeing TLDs like that yet. >>>>>> >>>>>> ~Seth >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> !DSPAM:2,57fc115690055790173396! >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team >>> as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >>> >>
