Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

Re:Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace by andersrs on Thursday June 15, 2023 @07:28PM (#36348429)

I have a conspiracy theory that a lot of domain registration companies like GoDaddy sell the domain name searches to squatters (sometimes themselves). The larger cloud companies don't have so much incentive do this. I always look up domains from the terminal.

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Re:Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace by cocoa19 on Thursday June 15, 2023 @09:04PM (#36349485)

I was disturbed by learning squatters no longer just sell domains for big bucks, some of them started to offer them for rent.

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Re:Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace by andersrs on Thursday June 15, 2023 @09:21PM (#36349652)

That's awful. So someone pays them them, builds a website on their property and they still have you by the balls. I guess you'd only rent to add a redirect over to a new domain.

I've just tried negotiating with a squatter. I'm trying to resurrect a web game with a few thousand players which the original dev neglected. I've rebuilt it on another domain but the community have game data stored in the browser localStorage against the original site. I offered US$200 and was told no - not even a counter offer. I believe they see the domains as lotto tickets - it's in their interests to let a lot of the negotiations fall though so they can win big on a few massive deals.

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Re:Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace by comatory on Friday June 16, 2023 @01:53AM (#36351997)

Whats the game?

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Re:Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace by account42 on Friday June 16, 2023 @04:43AM (#36353394)

I guess that's yet another problem of the web platform - data locked to individual operators and not available to others even when the user wants it to be.

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Re:Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace by kevin_thibedeau on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:54PM (#36359898)

Write an app to extract the data client side.

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Re:Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace by no_wizard on Monday June 19, 2023 @06:24PM (#36397204)

it doesn't work this way with normal dev tools, since local storage is scoped by the domain, other domains can't see whats in your storage

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Re:Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace by zeroonetwothree on Sunday June 18, 2023 @02:15PM (#36382765)

TBF, there's no way that $200 is profitable for them to deal with the hassle of selling. IME offers only start to get accepted once you are in the range of $2000+

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Re:Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace by sam0x17 on Thursday June 15, 2023 @10:28PM (#36350281)

Oh I've confirmed this. Back in the NetworkSolutions days I saw multiple examples of their bot parking a domain I had searched for the previous day.

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Re:Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace by qodeninja on Friday June 16, 2023 @09:19AM (#36356112)

yup, happened to me twice.

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Re:Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace by notatoad on Thursday June 15, 2023 @10:53PM (#36350492)

>The larger cloud companies don't have so much incentive do this. I always look up domains from the terminal.

somebody runs those whois servers. verisign runs .com and they like money just as much as the next guy - i wouldn't expect your lookups of unregistered domains to be unsold no matter how you do them.

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Re:Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace by eeegnu on Friday June 16, 2023 @04:52PM (#36363671)

Time to use an LLM to sandwich my actual domain name searches between thousands of other similar sounding ones. Let them pay for all of those.

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Re:Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace by supriyo-biswas on Thursday June 15, 2023 @11:50PM (#36350949)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running

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