sydb
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Post by sydb on Apr 22, 2019 22:54:32 GMT
I'll just add that to all the other costs that were necessitated by expanding domain suffixes that hardly anybody wanted but the domain industry so that everyone with an existing web domain is forced into buying them. There is nothing wrong with a, 'sorry, the website cannot be found' message - the potential customer just had to recheck the URL, discover they made a mistake and type it in properly this time. Talk about exploitation. It's a damn sight cheaper to buy some "unnecessary" domains than to find out you're losing business because somebody registered the one you couldn't be bothered with, whether disgruntled ex-customer or simply opportunistic competitor.
Even a hundred quid or two per year is nowt to any kind of viable business.
Yes, that was my point, it was exploitation. Furthermore, your second sentence appears to define a viable business as a business that does not care about a couple of hundred quid here or there. Tell me, how many times can a viable business not care about such costs before it becomes non-viable? It reminds me of something my accountant said when I once expressed surprise at an unexpected fee. He said some people don't like to talk about how much something will cost so he didn't mention it earlier. I wondered how long such businesses typically last.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 23, 2019 7:22:52 GMT
It's a damn sight cheaper to buy some "unnecessary" domains than to find out you're losing business because somebody registered the one you couldn't be bothered with, whether disgruntled ex-customer or simply opportunistic competitor.
Even a hundred quid or two per year is nowt to any kind of viable business.
Yes, that was my point, it was exploitation. Furthermore, your second sentence appears to define a viable business as a business that does not care about a couple of hundred quid here or there. Tell me, how many times can a viable business not care about such costs before it becomes non-viable? It reminds me of something my accountant said when I once expressed surprise at an unexpected fee. He said some people don't like to talk about how much something will cost so he didn't mention it earlier. I wondered how long such businesses typically last. It's very simple - a viable business is one that's profitable enough to absorb relatively predictable two- and three-figure costs without any significant impact on the cash flow.
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