Quote from: RE on Nov 16, 2025, 10:18 AMDoomsteadDiner.com is still available @ $12.99/yr on Domains.com. 

https://www.secureserver.net/products/domain-registration/find/?domainToCheck=doomsteaddiner.com&plid=509568&itc=slp_rstore

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We are still savin up for a quad RTX 6000 setup on a server board with a terabyte of high speed ram. 

$899.99 for the board, the processor and ram bring the cost up to about $20,000 and the RTX 6000 cards would be another $35 K.  The Diner would have a 50K home with the capability to run a big boy LLM model at a very good token rate.  Oh yeah !

Too bad all the Billionaires are conservative assholes.

I just bought doomsteadiner.com for 2 years.

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Quote from: RE on Nov 16, 2025, 10:18 AMDoomsteadDiner.com is still available @ $12.99/yr on Domains.com. 

The one I checked was the one you mentioned below. This was the one I noticed was higher priced than the others...like $400 or something.

Quote from: REActually,  I used DoomsteadDiner.net as my URL for most of the time the Diner was in operation.

When I checked the one you mentioned, there were another half dozen variations listed, and they were all normal cheap like the one you just listed.

Quote from: RE on Nov 16, 2025, 11:11 AMI just bought doomsteadiner.com for 2 years.

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You should grab all the cheap ones, and when anyone else notices doom and whatnot, do the reseller routine and make a mint!

DD.net is so expensive because of its history.  It had a lot of traffic for years.  That was my main URL.

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Quote from: RE on Nov 16, 2025, 03:23 PMDD.net is so expensive because of its history.  It had a lot of traffic for years.  That was my main URL.

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I know. I quoted you saying about the same just a post or two back. Which is why my claim is that the internet domain scalpers  know this about your domain as well, compared to the other URLS of similar words as your main one, and therefore charge more for it in the hopes that the person it has value to comes back. And then you get scalped.

As I mentioned, an IT buddy had the same issue, except it occurred across about a dozen domains. They were used variously, let go because the owner didn't want to pay for them anymore, but the owner of the company was then pissed because when his new web people went to recollect them for a new project, the scalpers/domain controllers were charging real money.

It is just business. No mackiavellian requirement. I got my first and still only domain at the end of the last century. It won't be going anywhere soon.