That might be true for some. Especially Microsoft seems to have only registered for their brands. But Google applied for .baby, .books, .movie, .music and many other non-brand TLDs.
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Then there is a website with a couple of small website tools like formmail, tell a friend, news, blog, and guestbook that can be downloaded. It doesn't do too badly but could do better with some effort from my side. But after 12 years, motivation is pretty low.
I also run a couple of disposable email and short URL websites that generate decent revenue via AdSense. Doesn't require much attention apart from disabling the odd spam or malware URL.
Right now I do mostly programming work, either creating web applications from scratch or adding features to existing ones. It's pretty lucrative but doesn't scale well. My time is pretty much split between programming for clients and doing work for the appointment scheduling Saas.
They do that because they can and the don't pay you interest also because they can and you have no leverage against them. Sad but true.
Moron is perhaps a harsh word but it's been known to the public when Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP. They had years to prepare. And they are multi billion dollar corporations. How can they have dropped the ball with this?
I also do some custom work for customers of our saas and I always tell them that the code I write for them is non-exclusive which means I get to re-use the code and resell it. I estimate nearly 80% of the app has been created that way including almost all the add-ons.
Bounty hunter: "Yes, I swear. So are his wife and kids. I have them all in my care. Where do I unload them? Where can I collect the money?".
Everybody in my highschool class learned how to program but I'm the only one who ended up being a programmer. I'm really not concerned about competition. Learning a thing and than doing a thing for the rest of your life are two different pair of shoes.
If more people had insights in what programming entails, we would have less stupid requests by clients who have not even the faintest idea how things work, how long they take, and that programming can be quite complex or complicated.
2. Step: Offer to create add-ons for that software.
It has been working fine for me for a couple of years now. The software is B2B and the customers are mostly small businesses. I get a couple of feature requests per week from those existing customers. And not only convert those requests quite often to new projects, I also get to offer the add-ons to other customers. That's always part of the agreement.
The costs of the add-ons have been in the range from $250 to $2000.
One of my projects (online appointment scheduling), though, I started using only recently for a reddit cake day reminder. People register and the software sends them an email when their reddit cake day is coming up.
SMS reminders are in the making and the rest is already available. I'm not sure, though, what you mean by "Calendar invite".
Getting sign ups is a very slow process. Can be frustrating from time to time.
Sounds grand if you phrase it like that.