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I purchased a domain via one. Price I paid in the end was like 20% of what they originally said they’d release the domain for. Possibly can come way down. Might help that the one I wanted had been for sale for years and it’s not an altogether common name or anything.
Was through buydomains.com and I resented having to go that way, but outcome in the end was ok I guess. I did research before hand, and had to pick apart negative reviews based on pricing and being annoyed by the whole market to reviews reporting anything that was a scam relating to the specific company. This seemed clean enough in the end, proceeded and transaction went through ok.
Guess I’d look at reviews etc though depending who is selling it.
In my case it was a .net. Emailed the owner of the .org who wanted half a million dollars for the name or something absurd. Said don’t bother, we won’t reach an agreement. They asked me what I’d had in mind and for me that was like $150 tops. Didn’t hear from them again, and they haven’t sold or done anything with it since.
No one is listing it as for sale unfortuantly, I just notice porkbun and a few others usually have 'inquire' or 'make offer' buttons on a lot of unavailable domains and wanted to see if anyone had actually had any luck using those services they link off to
I think porkbun links to sedo if you hit their button for it, and they supposedly charge a $69 one off fee and then 15% of any sale.
However my main concern is they just do nothing then say "sorry we tried and couldn't get in contact with the owner" then charge me $69 and call it a day
The day before yesterday, right? I logged into CloudCone and only then remembered that I had a paid CDN, and I just started using it the day before yesterday! I didn't think of the idle CDN!
Yeah ok. I think in my case it was a “make an inquiry” but the company held the domain. Getting the quote was free and negotiated from there. I wouldn’t feel comfortable paying someone to “try” get a hold of the owner and to make an offer on my part.
For the .org, the contact details were private but I went through the registrar (go daddy) who forwarded the request on. In my case they responded, although they had no obligation to.
everyone always talks about turning idlers into a CDN but no one thinks about idling a CDN
Fortunately, it's just a lightweight version, $4.5/year.
Any good?
It wasn't really useful, I was just curious about its speed at the time! So I blindly bought it year after year.Time and life buried it, and I just forgot to use it. After all, free CDNs are really quite good! The fact that a CDN costing $4.5 per year is still available for purchase shows a few things!
I had a look and the still offer a basic plan for $11 p/yr which is nice, however it's missing a bunch of features from cloudflares free plan that are almost impossible to match
would be cool to play around with though
If you're going to buy it, the old version has 37 nodes! But the BANDWIDTH isn’t that high!
The backend is very basic! I'm planning to stop renewing it!
Edit: Not recommended! Really mediocre!
noted, thnx u
cc.bocchi.cf is using it! This is the only use I can think of for now. Switch back to cloudflare/gcore/fastly after expiration.
cdn pricing scares me cuz its always per request or gb/pmnth etc so i just stick to cloudflare free cuz i havent been able to find a good yearly plan from another CDN that includes that features i use from cf the most
Im planning for the impossible
2 letters domain for cheap
it s not posibel!
Challenge accepted
Cloudflare Free is truly excellent! Other CDNs are just backup options! Cloudflare, Gcore, and Fastly all offer free plans (Gcore, and Fastly once the free quota is used up, it's pay-as-you-go—if an attack happens, it can be really terrifying!), but they still aren’t as generous as Cloudflare Free!
Some people who truly rely on websites for a living pursue very fast CDNs, but this comes with significant risks. For those of us who aren’t like that, using free ones is fine, or setting up something with an idle VPS, but it still needs to be managed well.
Extremely expensive and deluxe! Right now, my shortest domain is four letters long, and it's also from Freenom. 😫
I think i had 3 letters dot org once but i GA to saragoldfarb already
The shortest i hav is like 5 letters include tld
I used to have a 3 letter .me domain, but now I’ve found that all the 3 letter ones are gone.
.st plenty of 3 letter names available!!!
10$ maximum
@Blembim done
fk im $6 off
The only issue is cheap tho
That reminds me, young, naive me made a grave mistake of writing a shitpost (platelets.fun), hosting it on an EC2 instance (this was before me discovering how to host art) posting about it, and going to bed.
Only to wake up to it blowing up and me being billed a gorillion dollerydoos for bandwidth overages. Jeff Bezos can suck my cock, network is overpriced my man.
I knew how this gonna go
lmfao