{"id":5263,"date":"2017-01-17T14:37:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T19:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=5263"},"modified":"2017-01-17T14:37:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T19:37:34","slug":"domain-offers-the-school-project-commentary-is-getting-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/domain-offers-the-school-project-commentary-is-getting-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Domain offers : The “school project” commentary is getting old"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plenty of domain inquiries that arrive at the Uniregistry Market<\/strong><\/a> come from sketchy accounts.<\/p>\n

Some use proxies, incomplete or made-up names, or other bogus contact information. Those, are easy to ignore quickly, without spending as much as a second on them.<\/p>\n

Then, there are the student inquiries, that sometimes create believable profiles, or real students that are used as proxy buyers<\/strong><\/a> for bigger fish.<\/p>\n

The “school project” offers are tiring to read after a while. A typical email goes like this:<\/p>\n

“Hi, I like this domain. It’s for a school project, and I offer $5 for it. Thanks.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One such fun email arrived yesterday, and it’d be yet another case to immediately delete and forget about, hadn’t it been sent on Martin Luther King Jr. day.<\/p>\n

The email mentioned the “school project” line and offered ten bucks for a generic, aged .com – and did so on a day that schools in the US are closed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t know about you, but during my school years, having the day off outside of the weekend meant not giving a flying fuck about school projects.<\/p>\n

I’d be outside, riding my bike, hanging out with my buddies, getting into all sorts of trouble – but school projects and homework in general would be done at 9:00pm that night, shortly before bed time.<\/p>\n

I told my “buyer” to go do the same, ride his bike, and I didn’t hear back.<\/p>\n

Maybe he did take my advice, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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