Ask HN: Economics of domain hoarders

Re:Ask HN: Economics of domain hoarders by jasonmcalacanis on Saturday January 01, 2011 @01:22PM (#2058001)

.co did something interesting by making domains $30... which is no different than $8 if you're buying a small number of them.

However, these is a huge issue if you're buying 100 or 500 or 1,000.

Moving domains to $25 a year would probably reduce the amount of hoarding, as it would narrow people's focus.

For Weblogs Inc. I bought 3,000 domains when we started, and for Mahalo I've bought 2,000 or so. It's a trivial cost to buy all the possible options you might need. If the economics were 2, 3, or 4x i would have narrowed the focus down considerably.

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Re:Ask HN: Economics of domain hoarders by cmontgomeryb on Saturday January 01, 2011 @02:17PM (#2058136)

A friend had a client who purchased 1000 domains for his site. I've never even imagined buying this many - can you explain how you use them?

Do they all point to the same site? Is the reason simply to catch people who may mistype your real URL ie ycominator, ycombinator, ycombinates etc?

I find this fascinating, as even with these thoughts in mind I could only get up to about 10-20 domains for my current project! Thanks for any insight.

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