Am I, in 2017, the only one left thinking that domain parking is a harmful activity? Like… the DNS equivalent of patent trolling…
The other kind of person is (like me, so bias) the type who register domains with a project in mind but time or resources don't get funnelled to the project so the domain may as well be released back into the wild - In this case the domain still has however long it's registered for left on the registration and will likely be scooped up by a domain drop bot by the first kind of domainer. It's always nice for a failed project to at least break even through the domain sale.
When killing off projects I usually try to find someone who might like to own the domain and offer to push it to them gratis if they've got an account on the same registrar if the domain's going to expire within 6 months or so
The third type of person is one who comes up with - at the time - a hilarious sounding joke, registers http://www.cannedgoat.com, and then continues to renew it year-after-year for sentimental reasons.
Besides, who's going to buy cannedgoat.com off me? Might as well keep it from being a GoDaddy banner site.
If you actually need the domain, good, you can get it. If you only want to buy it to sell it later again, your problem.
I also can't imagine how you would legislate around the sales process of domains.
I've thought through a few options, but all paths lead back to a marketplace for domains as assets. In said marketplace, there will always be the equivalent of investment and speculation - so domain-parking is inevitable.
When you register a domain, it initially sits alongside a high entropy string, like mything.3ku23j9. You then get traffic and links to go to your domain. If you get sufficiently popular, google will show your domain as one of the first hits for "mything". At that point, you get the mything domain bare.
There are a ton of good, not for sale, but underused, domains. Ones that are tied up with people that had intentions to use it, but never did. But, they still have the emotional attachment, and typically won't sell.
But, I registered several <word>media.com names and sold them for $200 to $2k each. I just saw the trend of that style of domain. Didn't feel bad about it. It seems similar to buying land and sitting on it.
If I learn you're selling a domain just because it's not available for registration anymore, you are not adding value to my business, only increasing its costs.
First domain? 1 a year. Second? 10. Third? 100. Fourth? 1000.
No one squats domains after that.
This is the case for all web-hosting everywhere on the Internet. I host all of my domains through third-party providers, knowing and accepting the above-described risk. I consider it so low likelihood and of only medium impact if something ever occurs. The value is immense, the time spent is small, and the tradeoff worth it.
Imagine if someone phoned up your IT department and asked them to fix the MX record due to a mail server outage. Would you notice if your Received headers added a hop you weren't familiar with before? How long would they be able to record your company's email before someone noticed?
So I encourage taking DNS with absolute seriousness, and careful consideration of changes, and never simply assigning "just" 2 records to anyone, ever. Given 2 records, someone can do a lot more damage than any website hack ever could.
ps. "IN TYPE15" or thereabouts is another way to state "IN MX", to further convey why it can be very dangerous to follow instructions. Most admins would pause at an MX change, but most wouldn't think twice about a custom "TYPE15" record 'not supported by BIND yet', given sufficient verbiage.
Tough I've known extremely incompetent IT support, I think even they would be suspicious of someone proving his identity by making a "this is me" html page.
The point is not whether or not this domain parking thing uses two DNS records that do or do not include MX. The point is that, given a social engineering opportunity (“free domain parking with JUST 2 records”), an attacker can do extraordinary things.
I think you may be underestimating a little just how many domains people have if they're in the business of selling them!
Log in with your password, and login will be complete.
The signout process causes the user to sign out.
I will pick up some rocks with my pickup truck because someone asked for a rock pickup.
Really like the idea for the site, nice work
Efty is already doing it.
You may get good feedback from the people who are in domaining business.
One thing very useful is to have analytics, perhaps you could add a feature for users to input a Google Analytics tag (UA-000000).
Side note: for anyone who actually wants to sell/buy a domain in a private transaction, I highly recommend Escrow.com as an escrow service.
I planned to add more options to customize the landing page, including adding the GA tag ;)
Thanks for the tip!
What do you use to read the records?
If you're remailing those contact form responses through your server to the domain owner, these spambots will damage your IP reputation and legit inquiries might start getting blocked.
Take the pain out of something and you can sell it.
Tips for pricing your domain:
1. Think of how attached you are to the domain
2. Think of how much you think you'd be willing to pay for the domain in the open market
3. Think of how much the cleveriness of the domain name is
Add all these values together, and multiply it by 2.
