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I've been considering developing a new app but want to ensure it would be beneficial for other entrepreneurs and startup devs before I built it.

The service would notify you when your desired domain name becomes available, goes to auction, or changes in price, and offers detailed guidance on how to acquire it with friendly chat support.

Would that service interest you?

If so (or not), could you spare 3 minutes to provide your feedback?

The link is above.

Thank you in advance! I really appreciate your time.

Feel free to ask questions here.


100% so.

We'll see if I build something worthy of the name!


Yes, I purchased it from them.


I failed to publish on Github 1x per day on average. Just couldn't get into it. (I do my dev locally.)

I didn't get to fly fish at all, like I wanted.

I thought about buying an electric minibike for my boys (and me!), and think it's probably best that it didn't get done.


tell me more about the fly fishing!

the project I'm working on is actually a website / store for vertical jigging lures I use to target lake trout.

Making lures myself and dialing in stuff that works better than what I started with scratches several itches: fishing, engineering, artistic.

I especially like using a horizontal graph to find and target them, some scoff at "video game" fishing but it is way more exciting and fun than trolling imo.


NameBio.com is a database that includes both wholesale and retail domain name sales.

Yes, there is a correlation between number of characters and price. There are many other correlations as well.


Zoom.us

Twitch.tv

BoingBoing.net

Chorus.ai

ABC.xyz


This is a great list! Twitch.tv is #31 according to Alexa!

One thing to point out, is that 4 of those are country-specific TLDs (or the historic .net) which have been around for awhile so they might still have some familiarity.

It starts to look very unfamiliar to non-tech people when URLs have a long TLD, such as:

example.blog

example.website

example.foundation

example.engineering

example.international


Hi everyone,

I've just relaunched Hashtags.org. Any and all feedback is appreciated.

The video displays some common use cases. You can also view something like: http://www.hashtags.org/analytics/obama/ http://www.hashtags.org/analytics/romney/ http://www.hashtags.org/analytics/tangodown/

Mike


You are correct.

It's a financial agreement. Once you make all the payments, you own it. It's up to to you negotiate a payment plan that works for your business.


It can also be:

1. Lease the domain with a small cash outlay per month

2. Prove your business model

3. Make money

4. Make a balloon payment for an agreed-upon purchase price (prior to the contract signing) at the end of, say, 3 years term.

This gives the buyer a way to walk away if the business doesn't work out, but lock up the domain from others buying it out from under you in case your business is getting traction.


What's to be learned from this?

Server setting needed hardening?

Software needed updating and was vulnerable?

vBulletin is a well used and documented lice of code. I'd love to know what the security experts here think.


I'd love to know what the security experts here think.

Oh goody! Another million credentials to refine my password dictionary!

If it was a known vulnerability there is nothing to learn but "patch your shit". But if you want some advice, the only thing you can learn from somebody exploiting a web application (assuming the hole was in vBulletin, which we have no idea) is that you can't trust the security of web applications. Do all the general system-hardening stuff that nobody ever does, install a webapp firewall, and pray.


Seems to me that PHP bulletin boards are always a (easy?) target.


Don't use this as a reason to diss PHP. Almost any target, no matter what language, is vulnerable.


"PHP" bulletin boards are the largest there is, VB is the most well known forum software there is... It has nothing to do with PHP, you can exploit any language.


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