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Re:GoDaddy Statement on Eth.link Domain Registration by politelemon on Sunday August 28, 2022 @09:52AM (#32628388)
In addition to some replies here, some outfits will even lease their office buildings as close as networkly-posible to the registrars so that they can shave those milliseconds in trying to snipe the domain.
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Re:GoDaddy Statement on Eth.link Domain Registration by marban on Sunday August 28, 2022 @10:05AM (#32628480)
I thought that was only relevant for financial stuff but as for dropcatchers, that's new to me.
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Re:GoDaddy Statement on Eth.link Domain Registration by mathgeek on Sunday August 28, 2022 @10:25AM (#32628618)
They are essentially the same thing. The strategy is the same whether trying to put in buy orders for stocks or domains.
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