sales Milo Yiannopoulos is ripped off to the tune of $138,000 in Hatred.com sale

[Addison]

It's been reported that Milo Yiannopoulos purchased the domain name Hatred.com for $150,000 from a domain investor. The news of this domain sale sparked an ancillary quarrel among domain virtuosos. Kevin Murphy, a domain veteran and the authoritative blogger of Domain Incite, tweeted:

Give this domainer a big hand for ripping off Milo Yiannopoulos to the tune of $138,000 https://dsad.com/breaking-richa… #domains

That tweet caused a host of other domain experts and veterans alike to reply disharmoniously.

Shane Cultra (@Domain Shane) wrote:

A guy that writes articles about domain investing for a living, says that someone who sold a domain at a good profit is ripping someone off. That the person buying the domain is being stupid.

I think the buyer has free will and chooses what he wants to spend on the domain. If the seller agrees to that price and everyone is happy there is no such thing as ripping people off.

Ali Zandi (@Ali) replied:

An investor makes a nice sale and your choice words are "rip off"? C'mon dude. What?

Everyone who invests in domains and sells them for a profit is ripping people off? Why does anyone invest in anything then?

Richard Dynas (@uglydork), the seller of Hatred.com to Mr. Yiannopoulos, replied:

I don't ever rip anyone off and I dare you to find someone I ripped off

Joshua Schoen‏ replied:

KM, If it wasn't worth $150k to Milo then he wouldn't have bought it. He didn't get ripped off, he agreed to a price that he was fine with.

the domain will end up bringing Milo more value than it cost him to acquire it

Adam Strong (@strong) replied:

Wouldn't it be a $142,000 rip off since domains are roughly $8?

Whoops. That 2nd grade math slipped by me. Make that 149,992 rip off. Even better

Kevin Murphy (@DomainIncite) defended his position:

The choice of words is perfectly valid.

I'll gladly admit to being wrong, when I am wrong. What did I do wrong?

Think about when in your life you said something was a "rip off". Did you usually mean it was theft, or just expensive?

A rip-off is also something that is overpriced

Is it? My dictionary defines rip off (slang) as:

1. To steal from
2. To steal
3. To exploit, swindle, cheat, or defraud

That's it: those three. Mr. Murphy must be using a colloquial definition from his neck of the woods. (Did you pick up on my colloquialism?) IMO, a domain name is worth the price that a seller and buyer agree to at that moment. "Rip off" is a poor depiction of a harmonious deal.

What do you think of when you hear that a person is ripping off someone?

Does it mean overpriced?

 

[Compassion]

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw...cle/74177-milo-yiannopoulos-strikes-back.html

Yup... another link

Wow, #1 best seller immediately. And he is suing for $10 milllion.

 

[johname]

Hatred

"Simon & Schuster-canceled memoir, “Dangerous.”"

"Yiannopoulos has since blamed deceptive editing".

I hear another Milo sale around the corner.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/blamed-com-for-sale.1020467/

 

[MapleDots]

Hatred

"Simon & Schuster-canceled memoir, “Dangerous.”"

"Yiannopoulos has since blamed deceptive editing".

I hear another Milo sale around the corner.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/blamed-com-for-sale.1020467/

Blamed does not have the attention grabbing potential that hatred does so I doubt anything will come of that. Milo will do very well with the hatred moniker.

 

[johname]

He writes books. He not going to write just one more lol