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Max Pearl

I feel personally attacked by this cartoon.
5 Nov 2023 at 0:35 | Open on social.overlappingmagisteria.org
21 comments
Nomdeb

@pearlbear Am on my third email notice of expiration date. :) I'm going to let it go I think. <grin> I was thinking of giving it as a gift to a relative (same name) but decided I was just passing on the problem. :) :) :)

5 Nov 2023 at 0:37 | Open on mstdn.social
Jeff Miller (orange hatband)

@pearlbear I let the .org and .net expire and kept the .com I was actually using.

5 Nov 2023 at 0:39 | Open on hachyderm.io
Derek 🌈

@pearlbear hahahahahah. This hits home a little too hard.

5 Nov 2023 at 0:43 | Open on smugglersbbs.com
Gemini6Ice

@pearlbear @oliphant on some level, I just don’t want donain squatters to have it

5 Nov 2023 at 0:43 | Open on octodon.social
Who even IS Gordo!?
@gemini6ice @pearlbear @oliphant Strongly in favour of this logic.

It was different back in the day when your average domain squatter was an opportunistic single human with some disposable income, and they might ask $1000 but you could counter offer $150 and seal the deal. Now you have operations like Hugedomains who don't mind sitting on 1000 domains indefinitely knowing that someone will pay the obscene asking prices for a small percentage of them.

I hope Hugedomains steps on some Legos, preferably right at the top of a flight of stairs.
@gemini6ice @pearlbear @oliphant Strongly in favour of this logic.

It was different back in the day when your average domain squatter was an opportunistic single human with some disposable income, and they might ask $1000 but you could counter offer $150 and seal the deal. Now you have operations like Hugedomains who don't mind sitting on 1000 domains indefinitely knowing that someone will pay the...
5 Nov 2023 at 6:08 | Open on borkr.one
kaia
@pearlbear
don't fall into this trap. it's okay to let go. what happens if you can't is illustrated by x dot con.
5 Nov 2023 at 0:44 | Open on brotka.st
Robin Capper

@pearlbear after having a blog for 19 years I figured should get a domain, got a decade worth to avoid that dilemma for a while...

5 Nov 2023 at 1:41 | Open on mastodon.nz
River Brandon
Niall in Raglan :laserkiwi:

@pearlbear I hear ya! Will you go halves with me on domainrenewaldenialsupport.com ?

5 Nov 2023 at 1:50 | Open on mastodon.nz
Sean Boots
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@pearlbear

I have 30 of them.

I'm not necessarily attacked as I am vulnerable to ideas.

5 Nov 2023 at 2:49 | Open on mastodon.social
MegatronicThronBanks
Angad

@pearlbear I wish there was a way to have "permanent" domains. For example, .onion hostnames on #Tor and #IPNS identifiers on #IPFS.

5 Nov 2023 at 3:50 | Open on fosstodon.org
⚡Electro🔋Bama 🌞

@pearlbear
Lol, I always set to autorenew. Hope springs eternal.

5 Nov 2023 at 5:08 | Open on climatejustice.social
Robert

@pearlbear gotta keep the email forwarding just a bit longer

5 Nov 2023 at 5:15 | Open on mas.to
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
Howard Cheng
Richard Creamer
Scanner

@pearlbear @brainwagon Heh.. nah. just this year I started using two domains out of the 40 I have for active projects.. domains that I first reserved over 10 years ago.. so obviously it was worth it!!

5 Nov 2023 at 5:51 | Open on apricot.social
Scanner

@pearlbear @brainwagon (one of those two being apricot.social B-) )

5 Nov 2023 at 5:54 | Open on apricot.social
matt.rocks :pdx_badge:

@pearlbear
My domain provider used to give me a free WordPress site. Next month they start charging......... $12 a month.!

5 Nov 2023 at 6:01 | Open on pdx.social
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