• chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • RATMachinespirit [he/him,they/them]
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      2 years ago

      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?

      • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        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)

        • RATMachinespirit [he/him,they/them]
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          2 years ago

          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.

          • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            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/