How We Bought easypost.com

Re:How We Bought easypost.com by _RPM on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @10:43PM (#9001601)

So after the domain has been bought, the company can obviously see who bought it and find out your true identity. Is this a problem? (an inevitable one).

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Re:How We Bought easypost.com by puranjay on Thursday February 05, 2015 @06:25AM (#9002693)

You'd be surprised how prevalent fake identities are in this business.

Years ago, I owned a lot of domains. Some very good ones, in fact.

I had someone approach me to buy the domain, claiming they were a tiny 2-person startup.

Some Googling and talking to friends who owned domain names revealed that they were actually representing Microsoft.

It's very common for even multi-billion dollar corporations to pretend to be broke students/entrepreneurs/non-profits to get cheap prices on domain names.

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Re:How We Bought easypost.com by pan69 on Thursday February 05, 2015 @12:54AM (#9001962)

You want to avoid price inflation before the deal has been completed.

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Re:How We Bought easypost.com by escaped_hn on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @11:22PM (#9001711)

I would guess the main reason for hiding your identity would be so the sellers don't overcharge. After its sold, it doesn't matter.

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Re:How We Bought easypost.com by jonah on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @11:34PM (#9001753)

Correct. Though it't often easy enough to figure it out if it's related to an existing company.

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