by thomassmith65
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Back in the internet's early days, it was easy to get a domain name. They were cheap or even free.
That is not exactly how I remember things. Everyone bought domains from one registrar (was it Network Solutions?) and the cheapest domain started at around $100. There were all sorts of short and trademarked dot-coms available though, that is true.I'm going by ancient memory here and would love it if someone corrects me.
by Waterluvian
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- If he’s sitting on a domain that’s actually worth millions and has a well-paying job, maybe he’d get a bite for “I’ll accept less than 10 if you match it 1:1 with a donation to <charity>.”
It’s his and he can do what he wants. In fact I think it’s cool that there’s still a Classic Web holdout like this. But there’s latent joy locked away in that url.
- I found out about milk.com when I was thinking about how to make an Android app completely from scratch (assembling DEX bytes from zero, kind of like writing an assembler for the Dalvik VM). That’s when I came across the author of the DEX format, Dan Bornstein — and I was surprised he actually owns a domain like that.
by Brajeshwar
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- In a weird way, when someone mentions something about milk with a domain name, it always remind me of the Milk Table.
https://milk.dk
- I thought this was going to be about Kevin Rose.¹
¹ https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/26/milk-completes-1-5-million...
- purple.com was a similar thing. Originally the site had just a FAQ page about how they didn't want to sell the domain:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090226000820/http://www.purple...
https://web.archive.org/web/20090225184613/http://www.purple...
I just checked now and it's one of those mattress drop-shipping sites :-(
by indigodaddy
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- I believe this was one of, if not the first site to implement a barcode/UPC generator. Current iteration here:
https://milk.com/barcode/
- This guy worked at Danger! Man I loved my Hiptop/Sidekick
- The guy pretends he doesn't want to sell the website, all while hinting exactly at who might want to buy it and for how much... lol
by Mistletoe
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- https://milk.com/value/
I think he’s aiming a bit high with 10 milly. I’d take 1 or 5.
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