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Re:Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month by z3t4 on Sunday September 25, 2016 @05:11PM (#12577472)
If you buy a domain from a squatter, you encourage domain squatting. Domains are not that important as most browsers send the url to a search engine. So just register brand-name.com instead of brandname.com. Or pick another TLD.
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Re:Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month by joelrunyon on Sunday September 25, 2016 @05:40PM (#12577604)
MOZ would disagree with you

https://moz.com/community/q/hyphens-in-domain-name

edit: here's a better article actually on it - https://moz.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-domain-name-whiteboard-...

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Re:Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month by flashman on Monday September 26, 2016 @12:52AM (#12579317)
In 2009 I registered a hyphenless version of a Scientology domain name, and scored tens of thousands of visitors, who I rickrolled.

I would never, ever recommend settling for a hyphenated domain name.

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Re:Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month by trg2 on Saturday October 01, 2016 @01:36PM (#12618926)
This is bad advice.
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Re:Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month by Mattasher on Monday September 26, 2016 @02:18AM (#12579632)
This reads like: If you buy good real estate from someone who has a parking lot, you are encouraging people to buy good real estate. Better to buy a swamp an hour out of town and build your business there.
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Re:Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month by z3t4 on Monday September 26, 2016 @06:37AM (#12580699)
More like someone occupying lots of parking spots outside the mall, then charging many times the price for you to park there. Or take up many seats in public transportation, then charge people extra to sit, or hold seats until their friends come aboard.
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Re:Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month by pavel_lishin on Monday September 26, 2016 @08:28AM (#12581217)
Buys up deeds from people who missed paying their mortgage by a day, evicts the owners, offers to sell it to them - or anyone - at triple the price.
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Re:Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month by csallen on Monday September 26, 2016 @11:42AM (#12582746)
More like renting an apartment after someone neglected to pay their rent, and then continued to not pay day-after-day for the next 75 days. And afterwards, creating a fair bidding process to allow interested parties an actual chance to get that apartment for themselves without having to own sophisticated technology to be the first person there.
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