Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
I hate how so many domain registrars park domains. Like no one wants this domain there have been 0 offers and no one has ever used it but you sit on it and arbitrarily set the value at $200 a year. So stupid.
Me too, there should be a rule against it.
I guess somewhere along the way someone worked out that if a domain is registered then it is probably something someone might want (as opposed to a completely random selection of characters).
So they decided when a domain expires they would register it for the wholesale price then bump the price up to some amount people would pay if they really wanted it. So their $10USD investment in a .com could give them $200USD, and it only needs to work out in one out of every 20 cases to break even.
The numbers might stack up even more in their favour. The .com I wanted, it’s $1000 per month or $30k to own. It used to be owned by an old man who used it for his personal page and there are almost no commercial entity named that. So weird.
If I was thinking about how to automatically assign value, one way might be to bump the price depending on how long it was registered for. If the same person had it registered for 20 years, it probably also has SEO reputation that could be valuable.
That makes sense I guess. From the old layout it looked like it had been there at least that long. As far as I can tell from googling, there’s only one other entity apart from me that is likely to ever want it, though.
Go for a .nz. More expensive but I even managed to find a two character one!
.nz is really cute. I have a .co.nz already though but I wanted the .com because that way if someone goes there by accident it still works.
Ah yes, that makes sense. I guess if they are expecting $30k for it then they will just keep it indefinitely since it only costs them $10 a year.
Manawatia a Matariki everyone!
Manawatia a Matariki ki a koe hoki!
suprisingly, we have more posts this week 👀
Two weeks ago I installed dual boot EndeavourOS and OpenMandriva on my potato Mini PC (Celeron 1007U, 8GB RAM, 500 GB HDD), but I haven’t gotten around to fiddling with it yet. 🙄
Nice! What are you planning on using it for? I’m assuming it’s not your daily driver if you haven’t got around to using it.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it. Perhaps I will use it as network storage. it has an external SATA port, so I can add another storage.
At first I just wanted to learn arch-based Linux. But I found it easier to learn OMV, as it has a similar learning curve to Debian and Ubuntu-based distros.
I haven’t used an arch based distro before, I’ve always used Ubuntu based for servers and Fedora based for daily driving. I’m not even sure why, it’s just how it worked out.
