Domain aftermarkets need to clean up their inventory. Let me start this rant with some good news. This month, I sold a domain name for $6,500 that I found through Domain Academy’s Afternic advanced search tool. I bought the domain for less than $100. Now for the bad news: I spent a lot of time […]
Here’s my take:
The domain aftermarket has a big problem… it exists. This market shouldn’t ever be allowed to exist in the first place. ICANN should’ve blocked this bullshit a long time ago and forced registrars to just let domains expire and free the space. Also add a few provisions about unused domain names and about selling them.
This is way to ranty. If you don’t like your domain provider get a new one. Additionally there are effectively a infinite amount of domain names so you can just buy one that is still cheap.
Hey, I’m not the one who typed it… but it’s annoying to see when a name you want is taken on all the major tlds because registrars are holding domains in hopes of selling them.
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This is way to ranty. If you don’t like your domain provider get a new one. Additionally there are effectively a infinite amount of domain names so you can just buy one that is still cheap.
Hey, I’m not the one who typed it… but it’s annoying to see when a name you want is taken on all the major tlds because registrars are holding domains in hopes of selling them.
That’s fair but you can always choose something similar