How I bought a domain
It so happened that during the registration of a couple of domains I contacted Garant-Park-Telecom. I have an account there, and from time to time I extend the purchase in my account. Not so long ago, as they say, I started playing with it, and I needed a domain that consonant with my last name. And what, it's cool, to get an address like vasya@pupkin.com. After breaking through on whois, I found out that he had an owner. But instead of the address there was something anonymous of type r01.ru/kontakt_admin.html . Yeah, I thought, this is a form for an anonymous connection with an anonymous domain owner.
The answer came quickly, and not from the hypothetical Ivan Petrovich, but from the GPT. It turned out that the domain is at auction. Apparently, he doesn’t have a host as such, so I was invited to participate. I have never dealt with auctions and did not know what to expect from them, so any experience would be useful.
Here it is necessary to make a small lyrical digression. The fact is that my surname is not Ivanov at all, and she is not on the list of common surnames even in a homeopathic dose. For several years of searching (specifically looking for!), I found in the internet only one namesake, who turned out to be a football player of one regional team, although not from a seedy one.
In general, it is reasonable to assume that from the footballer’s side nothing threatens me, I threw 500 rubles to my account, pressed the “big red button” with a price of 100 rubles (TCI = 0) and went to sleep. It was a Saturday, the auction lasts 72 hours, because by now I saw myself as the owner of the address.
Today, at one in the morning, I receive a letter in the style of “Aha! Your bid is slain! ” I go and see there anonymus with a half hundred rubles. “It’s not for nothing,” I thought. Under world domination of bots, it is quite reasonable with a high degree of probability to assume that they are banal to me. I waited for the last 5-minute segment, I bet 200, but immediately after updating the page I saw a 250 bet. I still decided that I was not going to spend more than 500 rubles, so I made several bets at the last minute, bringing the price to 500 rubles, each interim rate instantly interrupted. And when I saw my final number, which was not interrupted by a mysterious competitor who SOZHDELEL of my domain, I was finally convinced that I paid for the course “How to dissolve a sucker for 500 rubles” worth 500 rubles.
Summarizing this lengthy story, I want to briefly express the main thoughts:
Why did I describe these events here? Because googling on the topic “auctions scam bots buy cheap” almost did not bring. I hope my impressions will add a couple of kilobytes to the restless air of unconscious knowledge, and people will become a little smarter. Amen.
The answer came quickly, and not from the hypothetical Ivan Petrovich, but from the GPT. It turned out that the domain is at auction. Apparently, he doesn’t have a host as such, so I was invited to participate. I have never dealt with auctions and did not know what to expect from them, so any experience would be useful.
Here it is necessary to make a small lyrical digression. The fact is that my surname is not Ivanov at all, and she is not on the list of common surnames even in a homeopathic dose. For several years of searching (specifically looking for!), I found in the internet only one namesake, who turned out to be a football player of one regional team, although not from a seedy one.
In general, it is reasonable to assume that from the footballer’s side nothing threatens me, I threw 500 rubles to my account, pressed the “big red button” with a price of 100 rubles (TCI = 0) and went to sleep. It was a Saturday, the auction lasts 72 hours, because by now I saw myself as the owner of the address.
Today, at one in the morning, I receive a letter in the style of “Aha! Your bid is slain! ” I go and see there anonymus with a half hundred rubles. “It’s not for nothing,” I thought. Under world domination of bots, it is quite reasonable with a high degree of probability to assume that they are banal to me. I waited for the last 5-minute segment, I bet 200, but immediately after updating the page I saw a 250 bet. I still decided that I was not going to spend more than 500 rubles, so I made several bets at the last minute, bringing the price to 500 rubles, each interim rate instantly interrupted. And when I saw my final number, which was not interrupted by a mysterious competitor who SOZHDELEL of my domain, I was finally convinced that I paid for the course “How to dissolve a sucker for 500 rubles” worth 500 rubles.
Summarizing this lengthy story, I want to briefly express the main thoughts:
- It was a bot produced by Garant-Park-Telecom.
- I think if I had 3000 rubles on my account, the bot would have brought up to 3000, and then I would have merged it. AND...
- ... if the account was 200 rubles, the domain would cost me 200 rubles
- If the bot did not merge, I would receive a letter like "the winner refused to buy, and your bet won"
- Domain auctions are an almost legal way for registrars to extort money for domains that they don’t own.
- It's good that my name is not Ivanov
Why did I describe these events here? Because googling on the topic “auctions scam bots buy cheap” almost did not bring. I hope my impressions will add a couple of kilobytes to the restless air of unconscious knowledge, and people will become a little smarter. Amen.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/137788/
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