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I suspect a human gets a dump of them and decides which to pay the $10 for.

For example, asdasdahbdajsdbajdbhsbdahsdd.com... not worth the $10

ireallylikechicken.com... maybe worth the $10?

(ireallylikechicken.com is available, go squat it and get rich)

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Someone did buy it it!

> Creation Date: 2020-01-09T19:37:01Z

Registered with Gandi, ironically enough...

And the domain is meta! Response from HTTP GET

> Location: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822

er.... was it you?

It was not

Hilarious

ireallylikechicken.com owner.

I'll give you 20 for it?

Only a 100% markup? I am sure it will be worth more than that in the future ;)

That’s what they said about Bitcoin last year

>That’s what they said about Bitcoin last year

Bitcoin price in USD on January 8 2019: $4004.12

Bitcoin price in USD on January 8 2020: $8045.51

But Bitcoin has increased by 100% over the past year.

I’ll give $1 for a 0.01% share.

I'll buy an option to take a 0.01% share in 12 months for $0.50

I am sure, in the past, one of the domain registrars took the liberty of actually registering your searched domain, deliberately, so that you had to go through them to get the domain later on? - I can't remember who it was, but it was an automated process.

I know it was very shortly stopped once people complained, but it goes to show that it has been done before.

Getting rich off domain's - sounds like a solid business plan!

I've got no evidence except anecdptes, but I've heard claims that GoDaddy used to do this a lot. For this reason I've only searched a domain I was going to immediately buy, otherwise I'll do a whois lookup to see if it's registered.

Just looked about and found these:

"Does GoDaddy register domains you search?" (2011) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326790

Within this, was the comment that reminded me which company it was I was talking about (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2327152) - Network Solutions used to do this - and there is a Wiki link in there which gives the process a name! TIL! :)

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

I remember something about registrars doing this so the domain you wanted wouldn't get snatched by someone else while you were in the process of buying it. Made more sense back in the time when far more basic names were available and such collisions were probably common for high-value domain names. Now it's two people finding the same needle in a haystack.

I knew a guy named pachell that did this from 1997-2001 until registrars changed the rule. pachell wherever you are, i miss you

hahahaha, the webpage redirects to this discussion!! WELL PLAYED!!! (sorry for the caps.. but wow!)

YW ;)

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