Domain for sale
Due to too many things going on, I’ve decided to sell a nice little domain name I’ve had laying around. This is my first time ever doing so, but it’s not that complicated. The domain is BigThickBooks.com. You may remember it from back a good while ago, and if you were interested in becoming a reviewer (it was supposed to be a book review site), I’m sorry to let you down. Feel free to bid though.
For what it’s worth, all the book publishers I talked to were all over the idea. It’d be a great site for someone with a little more time. I’m sure that with a weblog and Amazon Associates / Google AdSense, it could make a little cash.
How do you buy a domain name in the first place? Or are you just selling the rights to it and they pay the registrar the monthly fee for the eternity that follows?
Technically I guess I am selling the rights, but since they are the exclusive rights to it, it is pretty much like buying.
The fees are for the operation of the DNS system, and must be paid until you no longer want the domain. It’s pretty cheap though, like $8 a year.
Mine is $15 a year. I’ve never really thought about what that’s actually paying for. But apparently it’s only legal for government approved “registrars” to actually “own” the name, and I’m officially just renting it. Otherwise I’d just buy it. It’s possible to set up your PC as a DNS…I’m sure it would suck, however.
The rubric I use to tell if I own something is if I can sell it. I can sell BigThickBooks.com, no one else can. You are correct though that it’s more of a “right” because domain names are not tangible goods.
Even if you set up DNS on your PC (it’s not that bad), you still need to pay for the DNS system. There are huge databases that hold every last domain name and their corresponding IP address. There’s no way to escape it. It’s actually a pretty good system.
The reason why registrars need approval is for the validity of the data. Can you imagine what would happen if two people registered the same domain? Chaos.
I get my domains from GoDaddy.com… Love ’em.