Have you looked at FolioHD? It's geared towards photographers and artistic types that want a really nice portfolio website.
Paying an amount that is just-above-market-rate for a domain and not needing to understand how to configure DNS for someone non-technical seems like an absolutely worth-while reseller case.
If you want to be an artist then control of your intellectual property is probably a topic you care a great deal about.
Your domain and how people reach you is probably the first lever. If you are giving that up happily, I assume renting without the option to own or leasing a car is a sensible business model to you and you are just experimenting without any real intention of starting.
The effort and time in becoming an artist outweighs by at least two or three orders of magnitude the time it would take to read an article and setup a domain. Namecheap, GoDaddy, all these registrar's do it for you.
Imagine having 900 houses and renting them out to a community of like minded folks.
Whether it is at cost or slightly above, it is "rent seeking" in the sense they own, you borrow.
The business in question isn’t hoarding domains. Customers explicitly request their domain and they register it for them. That’s it. The customers can also transfer their domains out and set DNS entries like they would with any webhost.
The way the article read it seemed as they though they had many domains and customers could bring theirs into that ecosystem.
If the customer left it behind they could send it to the wayside.
If they are merely a broker then I agree, I don't see them as rent-seeking. The article left me with the impression that they had a large number of domains they rent out to customers.
Why is this rent seeking? It seems like a reasonable service for their target audience, an easy way to create online portfolio. Reselling domains to be used with a portfolio is just an additional service which makes perfect sense in this case.
nathas|1 year ago
Paying an amount that is just-above-market-rate for a domain and not needing to understand how to configure DNS for someone non-technical seems like an absolutely worth-while reseller case.
mcnichol|1 year ago
Your domain and how people reach you is probably the first lever. If you are giving that up happily, I assume renting without the option to own or leasing a car is a sensible business model to you and you are just experimenting without any real intention of starting.
The effort and time in becoming an artist outweighs by at least two or three orders of magnitude the time it would take to read an article and setup a domain. Namecheap, GoDaddy, all these registrar's do it for you.
Imagine having 900 houses and renting them out to a community of like minded folks. Whether it is at cost or slightly above, it is "rent seeking" in the sense they own, you borrow.
While it isn't rented, they are squatting on it.
sgammon|1 year ago
hipadev23|1 year ago
They’re not reselling or licensing out domains.
mcnichol|1 year ago
If the customer left it behind they could send it to the wayside.
If they are merely a broker then I agree, I don't see them as rent-seeking. The article left me with the impression that they had a large number of domains they rent out to customers.
grujicd|1 year ago
mcnichol|1 year ago
Whether it is at cost or slightly above, it is "rent seeking" in the sense they own, you borrow.
While it isn't rented, they are squatting on it.