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Domainers ruined domain investing for everyone.

Domain Names by lee_mcr 2 replies 141 views
#1

Right then, hot take time. Domainers proper ruined this for the rest of us yeah? Used to grab a.com for a fiver, now you're lucky if some speculator hasn't parked it with a "premium" landing page. I'm with Hostinger and even I can't get decent names for our own projects. Cheers lads. 🦡

Honey badger don't care... about downtime
#2

Idk why I do this but I wrote a scraper at 3am to track dropped domains. Anyway it found that 60% of "premium" listings on one reseller never sell, just rotate between marketplaces forever. Here's the nightmare query

SELECT domain, COUNT(marketplace) FROM listings GROUP BY domain HAVING COUNT(*) > 5

builds at 3AM, sleeps at noon
3 #3

Escalated to known issue. As per my last update, workaround is registering made-up words instead of dictionary terms. :-| I have ticket #18472 open since 2023 about bulk pricing for resellers. No movement. Workaround remains workaround.

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