I'd much rather pay $1000 to feed and house war orphans than to reward some digital rent seeker, and it's super cool the rent seeker had a change of heart and was okay with that.
Anyone who has a grand laying around to give to an NGO on a whim chills my heart. Beats playing 6 grand but I’d have trouble justifying more than $15 or whatever the going rate is now to privately register an unclaimed domain.
I don't know, that's not the kind of money that's actively harming the world. I've seen much more grotesque uses of 1k$ than a donation in exchange for a .com domain with one's actual surname. I'd probably do it, not in support of UA though, maybe MSF or something.
I'd never pay someone 1k$ for a domain, but I did sell one to some rich asshole for 10k$ once. They're still trying to flip it asking 1mil$ over 8 years later.
I used domain privacy at the time, so sure. It was def....w.xyz (the whole alphabet minus abc as that was already owned by the XYZ NIC folks so you could put abc. as a subdomain and it was the whole alphabet)
I think he's hoping Alphabet Inc wants it or something, as I recall.
Here's the old page I had on it with a link to Chomski.info and some open source stuff I worked on at the time: https://web.archive.org/web/20150815224423/http://abc.defghijklmnopqrstuvw.xyz/
I mean, that's genuinely heartwarming.
I'd much rather pay $1000 to feed and house war orphans than to reward some digital rent seeker, and it's super cool the rent seeker had a change of heart and was okay with that.
Anyone who has a grand laying around to give to an NGO on a whim chills my heart. Beats playing 6 grand but I’d have trouble justifying more than $15 or whatever the going rate is now to privately register an unclaimed domain.
I don't know, that's not the kind of money that's actively harming the world. I've seen much more grotesque uses of 1k$ than a donation in exchange for a .com domain with one's actual surname. I'd probably do it, not in support of UA though, maybe MSF or something.
I'd never pay someone 1k$ for a domain, but I did sell one to some rich asshole for 10k$ once. They're still trying to flip it asking 1mil$ over 8 years later.
Without doxxing, you able to explain how a domain is worth that? Sounds wild. Like, did you scoop up a really good one early on?
I used domain privacy at the time, so sure. It was
def....w.xyz(the whole alphabet minusabcas that was already owned by the XYZ NIC folks so you could putabc.as a subdomain and it was the whole alphabet)That’s wild, like I think you probably got the good end of that deal. Who would pay the price the current owner is asking lmao.
Glad you got the bag by being creative.
I think he's hoping Alphabet Inc wants it or something, as I recall.
Here's the old page I had on it with a link to Chomski.info and some open source stuff I worked on at the time: https://web.archive.org/web/20150815224423/http://abc.defghijklmnopqrstuvw.xyz/
That’s cool, thanks for sharing.