Premium Domains

I remember up until a couple of years ago, you could punch in just about any idea of a domain name (.com, net, org, etc) and if it was available, it was yours for 35$. All of a sudden, if a name that was easy and catchy was miraculously unreserved, the domain registrars decided to attach a premium fee to it, calling it a "premium domain name". I’ve seen them as high as 4000$ to register them. I have yet to get the answer to, since when did THEY decide they’ll take these available names hostage and profit largely from them when nobody owns them?
looking for ideas to find an answer to that and if it is in fact lawful.

Domain brokers are crooked and their tactics are unethical. As far as legal goes, I think it depends on which company they are in. I was told that in the USA that there is a law called "Domain High-jacking" which is illegal, however what would it cost to hire a law firm to fight this?

I have seen these companies hijack someones personal name and will "sell" it to anyone with that name for hundreds of dollars. Personally, I would like to see these crooks go down. //#

I’ve had several domains and websites at a particular host for many years. Unfortunately, they charge premium fees and I’m looking for a cheaper option. There are other hosts offering the same services at cheaper rates. I can save all my current web directories locally and upload them to a new host but I am concerned about any down time needed to transfer registered domains, many email accounts, Apache based applications, PHP, MySQL databases, etc. What will the problems be?

Will my websites be unavailable for very long during the transfer to another host?

Will my SEO ratings decline if Google and other bots cannot find my sites during the down time?

What about my transferring my dedicated IP address and SSL certificate?

What kind of difficulties can I expect?

Is it worth the transfer in order to save money?

Thanks for your help.

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You will lose the dedicated IP address but you can keep the SSL certificate as long as the domain is the same you can move them over. You’ll need to have the private key and ssl hash files.

You will not have any downtime if the moving is done right.

I switched hosts to www.zigzag-hosting.com and they transfered my site for free and I had no down time at all.

They have a guide in support section

Hi,
Before i used to use free hosting. Now i signed up for premium but i change name servers. It redirects me to old host.
Please tell me if anyone else experienced this? Is this old hosting problem?

Sorry you are having problems Emrah, Usually a name server update will take 24-72 hours. If you are still seeing your old site more than 72 hours after updating your name servers please contact us at http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/contactus for help troubleshooting this issue.

How much is the renewal price of a $500 premium domain .com name? How much is it to keep it for another year? Do I have to pay $500 to renew the domain, or $10?

10$ , you only pay the 500$ once ( it goes to the old owner )

And please explain why

y is the number of discount tickets
x is the number of premium tickets

the equation shows how many tickets can be bought with 600 dollars

200x + 80y = 600

Describe a domain and range and describe what the x and y intercepts represent in the context of this situation

Domain: {1,2,3}
Range: {5, 2.5, 0}

You can’t have half a ticket or a negative ticket.

X-int = (3,0) which means 3 premium and 0 discount. In the context of this situation, this is the most premium tickets that can be bought for 600$

Y-int=(0,7.5) which means 0 premium and 7.5 discount. This is impossible since you can’t have half a ticket. The max number of discount you can buy would be 5. 1 Discount and 5 premium (1,5)

I’ve been opening business for clients 12 yrs+ & this has happened to me as well as numerous customers over the years. You goto godaddy or domain.com & check your domain name. You check a few domain names you want and figure there’s no way these unusual names will be taken by the time you go back to save them. 3 weeks later you come back and each one of those name are taken by different entities and will sell to you now at a much higher PREMIUM!!

NEWSFLASH!!…they are all taken by the same site you just went to prev but surreptitiously under a subsidiary/connected company to godaddy.com or domain.com!!

How ethical is this? Is this type of underhanded sales-sneakiness legal?

Greed is their priority, not people. I’ve no desire to use these websites because I’ve been warned about them that they do that before. You have to be careful.

Yahoo doesn’t seem to have these complaints so I go to their domain search. Link below:

Which of the following editions of Windows 7 can not join a domain? (Choose all that apply)
Answers:
A) Home Premium
B) Home Basic
C) Enterprise
D) Professional
It’s not cheating when you have already answered the question. Lets not assume next time SA.

I am amused at the people who like to cheat on homework, or at least appear to. But to answer your question, they all can join a domain, but not all have the control over the domain join or group policy. //#

I’ve bought a domain and going to create a nice looking website for free songs and movie download. I wanna know if I put premium ads on the site, how much money I can earn????

How long is a piece of string? It’s an impossible question to answer accurately. If your site is No.1 for a very competitive search term you can make money. getting to No.1 for that kind of competitive search term takes a long time and professional work. You can’t just set up a website and expect people to start hitting your site and clicking ads. If it were that simple everyone would do it. The mere fact you asked that question suggests to me it is something you should seriously re-consider before you invest a lot of time and effort into it.

I was wondering how much it would cost to auction a domain that I have through godaddy. I was also wondering what premium listing was and if godaddy takes a commission if I sell a domain.

Basic listing is free, but there is a 10% fee on sale of the domain. There are several different types of premium listings available ranging from $3.00-$20.00 depending on what you are looking for. Check the links in the resources below for details.

Isn’t it more like renting one? And if we’re just renting them, how come premium domains cost so much more to register? Sure, they’re popular or whatever but it’s not fair if I don’t really own it.

Thanks for reporting my test question. "Say goodbye to your Y!A account." Like I’d really let you get away with that. Good luck.

To answer your question, no.