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Re:Ask HN: How to prevent a company from taking my domain name? by nubinetwork on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:06AM (#34923661)
Why spend the money defending a $5 domain name, especially when you're not making any money by having it?

It's just a name, and if you're not a registered company, you're going to be seen as a squatter no matter what.

All I'm suggesting is to be prepared to have the domain ownership contested and have a backup if you have to change domains.

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Re:Ask HN: How to prevent a company from taking my domain name? by anonzzzies on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:28AM (#34923799)
Also, the amount doesn’t matter; OP describes, in enough detail, that they are proud of this name.
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Re:Ask HN: How to prevent a company from taking my domain name? by nuclearnice1 on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:08AM (#34923671)
Was it $5? I had the impression the OP paid more.

> I spent like a year or so to save up for it, which cost roughly 6 months of average net salaries in my country about 7 years ago.

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Re:Ask HN: How to prevent a company from taking my domain name? by nubinetwork on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:11AM (#34923693)
They picked a bad registrar for a .com then, because they're dirt cheap.
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Re:Ask HN: How to prevent a company from taking my domain name? by valenterry on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:13AM (#34923712)
They probably bought it from someone as it wasn't free at the time.
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Re:Ask HN: How to prevent a company from taking my domain name? by lname_dot_com on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:13AM (#34924119)
Correct. It was already registered and up for sale.
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Re:Ask HN: How to prevent a company from taking my domain name? by anonzzzies on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:19AM (#34923739)
> All I'm suggesting

Not really, you are stating, matter of factly, that the big evil corp will own it and you are basically screwed. This is not true (in places I know, but might differ somewhere) if it’s not squatting and it’s actually your family name. It’s beyond reasonable.

Also, I find this capitalist overlord cynicism really quite annoying. I would help OP with legal fees to prevent this from happening. Just laying down and get pummelled just because it’s a big corp should not be the default.

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Re:Ask HN: How to prevent a company from taking my domain name? by lname_dot_com on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:14AM (#34924128)
That's kind of you, but will hopefully never be necessary.
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Re:Ask HN: How to prevent a company from taking my domain name? by lname_dot_com on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:12AM (#34924117)
> I spent like a year or so to save up for it, which cost roughly 6 months of average net salaries in my country about 7 years ago.

It wasn't $5.

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