Morgo
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Anyone know what's with the huge purchases of meaningless domains (e.g. random numbers and letters, or every permutation of number before a word or phrase)?
Originally I thought it was a shady move by ngtld owners to boost the optics of a tld. I'm sure this is often the case, but this is also happening in .app. I'm confident Google doesn't care about faking their reg numbers, so pretty sure that option is out for this tld (IMO).
Ok, so maybe a botnet / phishing scam? But it's seems both pricey (e.g. namestat.org showing 15k .app regs today at GD, so well over $200k at GD prices) and seems easy to detect (likely one or a few account(s) mass registering meaningless domains - assume this account could be shut down if enough of their names are used for nefarious purposes).
Just super curious. Anything I'm missing here?
Originally I thought it was a shady move by ngtld owners to boost the optics of a tld. I'm sure this is often the case, but this is also happening in .app. I'm confident Google doesn't care about faking their reg numbers, so pretty sure that option is out for this tld (IMO).
Ok, so maybe a botnet / phishing scam? But it's seems both pricey (e.g. namestat.org showing 15k .app regs today at GD, so well over $200k at GD prices) and seems easy to detect (likely one or a few account(s) mass registering meaningless domains - assume this account could be shut down if enough of their names are used for nefarious purposes).
Just super curious. Anything I'm missing here?