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Hi Friends 👋
im building hrefDomains
im 51
im in LA
ucla - econ & math
anderson - mba
afi - mfa
1st job - tech support
2 exits
netflix (ex) - studio stooge
apple (current) - studio stooge
10 years experience in media & entertainment
30 years experience in tech
(more 👇)

[ed @hrefDomains @hrefdomains]

pretty darn good

[Brady @ntropiq]

Expired auctions and a shorter 29-day grace period are launching Monday at @unstoppableweb - read on for details and our full expiration timeline:

Note that I sent out a similar post earlier this week that contained outdated details regarding our policy. This post contains the new official policy.

We are shortening our grace period from 40 to 29 days to allow for expired auctions at Unstoppable. Don't worry, your domains are not in danger - you have until 12:01am ET on Monday 3/23 to renew any affected domains before we start sending domains to auction.

Starting Monday 3/23, domains that enter day 30 of the grace period will be sent to auction. Domains already on day 31+ of grace on 3/23 will not be sent to our auctions.

Domains that are sent to expired or closeout auction will not be renewable if they have any bids, to preserve the integrity of auctions and prevent gaming. Domains that don't sell at auction will be released to the registry and will be redeemable for a higher fee during the 30-day redemption period following closeout auctions.

Soon we'll also be launching an auctions discovery and bidding interface at Unstoppable. You'll be able to bid on our expired auctions inventory, as well as inventory from partner registrars like Dynadot.

Altogether, our expired domain timeline looks like this:

Day -30: We send an expiration reminder email

Day -7: We attempt to autorenew your domain (if auto-renew is on) and send another reminder email (if autorenew is off)

Day 1: Domain is now expired and in the 29-day grace period. We send a third reminder email. Domain is renewable and transferrable at normal price during the grace period. DNS records and forwarding config are wiped, and Unstoppable's nameservers and lander are applied.

Day 30: Domain leaves the grace period and is sent to 7-day expired auction. Domain cannot be renewed or transferred if there is any bid in the auction.

Day 37: Standard auction closes and domain is transferred to the winner. If the domain has no bids, it will go to 3-day closeout auction.

Day 40: Closeout auction ends and domain is transferred to the winner. If the domain has no bids, it's deleted, enters the redemption period, and is renewable for a redemption fee.

Day 70: Domain leaves the redemption period, enters pendingDelete status, and is not recoverable until it is released for registration by the registry.

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We appreciate your flexibility as we iron out our policies with so many new features coming down the pipe.

Let me know if you have feedback or concerns

[Dmytro Krasun @DmytroKrasun]

If I accidentally unfollowed you, sorry and please let me know.

I was trying to rebuild my feed quickly and could accidentally mess up with whom I follow/unfollow.

[ed @hrefDomains @hrefdomains]

I mean.. managing over 5k domain names is extremely hard to manage without AI. (i manage well over 5k domains)
- figuring out the trends in the portfolio
- figuring out which niches to double down (and vice versa)
- figuring out to price them and the renewal cost risk
/etc

Ive been using chatgpt and gemini

[ed @hrefDomains @hrefdomains]

anything over 5k domain names is impossible to manage without AI

[Michaela ✨ @ivyavocado]

hey #BuildinPublic fam! I desperately need beta testers.

for a job search tool *made for marketers*...

This tool aggregates from ~200 job boards and updates daily. It doesn't skip the specialty, niche boards for marketers, such as MarketingHire, MediaBistro, HitMarker, AngelList, YC... & so on.

It's extremely annoying to have to manually scan 10+ boards every day, multiple times per day, during a job search.

But with this tool, you fill out your profile with your very specific needs, wants, qualifications, dealbreakers, resume...

The tool scores 1,000s of jobs daily against your unique profile.

You get a fresh batch of those (1,000s of) jobs delivered to you every day, matched against your profile, and delivered in order of most likely to hear back if you apply.

I'm sharing beta access codes for free. Break stuff. Please. Thx. :)

It literally costs ME $ in API calls for you to use the tool, but you're getting free access. You've got nothing to lose. comment or DM me, I'm happy to share.

tysm 😭🙏

[Elias Stråvik @eliasstravik]

@gustaf @harjtaggar it seems like the best startups tend to grow faster than ever - what do you think the main reasons are?

are founders getting better at product or sales, more inbound interest from markets at large that want to use more ai, and/or something else?

[edward @httpdeals_]

this is the weirdest post mid life crisis i have ever scene.

[edward @httpdeals_]

Where would you prefer to work?

[edward @httpdeals_]

Founder Rel(eations)
more so than DevRel

[ed @hrefDomains @hrefdomains]

dont be boring
dont be corny

[ed @hrefDomains @hrefdomains]

Sell to the rich or sell to the ‘poor.’ Trying to sell to both is expensive. Selling to the middle is expensive too.

[ed @hrefDomains @hrefdomains]

choose your customers carefully.

[ed @hrefDomains @hrefdomains]

exceptional customer service is the biggest thing that everyone needs but 99.999999 of products and services always get wrong.
Amex, Chase, Porsche have a lot of 'problems' but damn do they get the customer service part right. i wish this was the case for startups

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@ntropiq @unstoppableweb

[ed @hrefDomains @hrefdomains]

Hi @unstoppableweb @ntropiq I had an email saying that a few of my domains were set to expire even though I marked them "Autorenew Off". The email was sent today, then a few hours later the domain names were renewed anyway. can i still fix this?

[ed @hrefDomains @hrefdomains]

it also seems like some domain names have toggled autorenew on and some autorenew off...
*I just sent an email to support for a refund request
*I suspect that when i search for a something and the result is a list of names with a mix of autorenew on/off and i do a bulk action it flips some of the domain names that have been selected at autorenew off back to autorenew on

[Brady @ntropiq]

Domainers when they see a $12m raise on https://t.co/c3W9kvJMz7

[ed @hrefDomains @hrefdomains]

the dudes over at Unstoppable Domains are relentless in shipping new service features...
(tbh, its pretty inspiring)

[ed @hrefDomains @hrefdomains]

Join @handreg (Aaron) and Friends to chat domains and AI.. open mic
https://t.co/yDJcDYwenC

[ed @hrefDomains @hrefdomains]

this is just wild https://t.co/zo7CPFq32F