Expiry
September 21, 2005 7:26 PM Subscribe
What is going on at a site like this one? I see this kind of thing all the time. I can understand that some opportunist has registered an expired domain, and is willing to sell it, but how would these links make any money for him in the meantime?
Keep in mind that they only need one actual webhost, to which they can point all the domains they're squatting on. And squatters have a lot of domains -- thousands of them. They (generally) only make a tiny bit of money with each one, but it's enough. As with Google Adwords, some are worth more than others, and finding those is part of the game.
posted by dhartung at 10:10 PM on September 21, 2005
posted by dhartung at 10:10 PM on September 21, 2005
When I turned down an offer to buy a domain I have been sitting on for a long time (one of those Real Soon Now projects...) the person pitched hooking me up to one of those kinds of things. A smarter man would probably have gone ahead and done it - after all, I am paying renewal fees every year - but somehow it felt worst to have junk on the unused domain than having it not resolve.
posted by phearlez at 7:32 AM on September 22, 2005
posted by phearlez at 7:32 AM on September 22, 2005
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posted by Rhomboid at 8:05 PM on September 21, 2005