Re: More gmane.org drama

On 25/02/2020 16:16, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> There's been some further developments:
>
> http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2020/02/25/the-fate-of-gmane-org/
>
Sometimes the registrar who originally registered the domain will renew 
it hoping that somebody really desperate for this domain name will bid 
for it and make them a profit.

In the UK, the registrars pay n annual subscription to their countries' 
domain authority (for example nominet.uk) and with this subscription 
they get a set number of domains free of charge which they can sell it 
to their customers (within a year of course).  They normally make a 
profit because they can register these domains at a set price which has 
a profit already built in.  The auction is for used domains just in case 
somebody was desperate to get hold of it.

I'll give you an example:  I owned a domain called mymainsite.com which 
I wasn't interested in anyway but it was acquired by some philipino chap 
for $2,000.  I wish I had known that he wanted it so that I could have 
sold him for less than what he paid for!!!

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