Why is no one uses bitcoin.com - page 2.

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Quote from: sgk on May 18, 2015, 06:45:22 AM

Quote from: MicroGuy on May 16, 2015, 10:19:27 PM

Maybe he would consider redirecting it to bitcoin.org while the domain is not in use?

That would seem to be more beneficial to the currency than a dead domain.

For me, bitcoin.com domain is already re-directing to:
https://bitcoin.org/en/

I'm sure it must not be only me, though?

It is now redirecting to bitcoin.org, it wasn't like this yesterday. Perhaps the owner Mr Ver has changed it due to this thread

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Quote from: MicroGuy on May 16, 2015, 10:19:27 PM

Maybe he would consider redirecting it to bitcoin.org while the domain is not in use?

That would seem to be more beneficial to the currency than a dead domain.

For me, bitcoin.com domain is already re-directing to:
https://bitcoin.org/en/

I'm sure it must not be only me, though?

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Selling this domain name now would be a mistake IMO and the guy who owns it probably thinks the same. Especially if he bought it for dirt cheap. Bitcoin is still in its infancy, once it's properly integrated society, this domain name could be worth 1000 times what it's worth now.

LOL just noticed, the post above me is from the guy who owns the domain name ?? Shocked

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Hi everyone,
OKCoin signed a 5 year contract to manage the domain.
There are about 4.5 years left in that contract, but I'm not sure what their current intent is.

Hopefully a much better website will be coming soon.

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Quote from: Jeremycoin on May 17, 2015, 04:39:08 PM

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Quote from: Jeremycoin on May 16, 2015, 01:37:12 PM

I'm just curious, why is nobody uses this domain --> bitcoin.com

i thought i have visited this website before and something like a bitcoin tutorial was displayed there

Do you mean, this one --> https://bitcoin.org/en/ or this one https://www.weusecoins.com/ ?

I read https://bitcoin.org/en/ when I first started learning about bitcoin, and the one thing I really wanted to know that it didn't tell me was how and where to buy them. There might be a difficult to find link to an exchange on the site, but if there is I couldn't find it.

http://bitcoin.com shows on the first page of results for a Google of "bitcoin", but I don't know why because the link leads nowhere.

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Quote from: thebenjamincode on May 17, 2015, 06:23:53 AM

Quote from: Jeremycoin on May 16, 2015, 01:37:12 PM

I'm just curious, why is nobody uses this domain --> bitcoin.com

i thought i have visited this website before and something like a bitcoin tutorial was displayed there

Do you mean, this one --> https://bitcoin.org/en/ or this one https://www.weusecoins.com/ ?

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But he may try to sell his domain name, he can sell it lot of money i think.

he should have sold it at the 1200 peak then...two thing, he don't want to sell it, because he is waiting for bitcoin to become big, or he is simply waiting for a more better price than a mere 1200

Quote from: franky1 on May 17, 2015, 04:03:52 AM

it was originally bought simply to preserve the bitcoin community and to stop scammers buying up the name and placing fake information on it or trying to extort the community.

still the question stand, why he is not using it?

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Quote from: franky1 on May 17, 2015, 04:03:52 AM

it was originally bought simply to preserve the bitcoin community and to stop scammers buying up the name and placing fake information on it or trying to extort the community.

I would agree with this, especially the part about a scammer buying the domain to be used for scamming purposes. There are a huge number of scam websites out there and someone could potentially scam for huge amounts of money if they were to own a domain like bitcoin.com. There are already enough scam sites that impersonate legit sites (like sites that pretend to be blockchain.info).

My guess is that bc.i doesn't want to have bitcoin.com redirect to bc.i to avoid creating a precedent of other domains being legit mirrors of their own site. They are probably waiting to come up with a new business venture and host it there

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Quote from: coolmyrig on May 17, 2015, 07:26:57 AM

He is rich enough,no need sell it or make money with it.

Being rich doesn't mean he is not willing to make good money with it. He could get a decent amount with it if he decide to let some one lease it.

Same with btc.com from gaw, some one leased it till 2018. Great way of generating income out of nothing.

A lot high quality domains have not being used for years and years. Which is a shame, they could have made thousands with it.

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He is rich enough,no need sell it or make money with it.

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Quote from: Jeremycoin on May 16, 2015, 01:37:12 PM

I'm just curious, why is nobody uses this domain --> bitcoin.com

i thought i have visited this website before and something like a bitcoin tutorial was displayed there

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Quote from: HI-TEC99 on May 16, 2015, 01:42:41 PM

A who.is lookup says Roger Ver owns it, although I don't know why he doesn't use it.

https://who.is/whois/https://bitcoin.com

Domain Name: BITCOIN.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1371058558_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.enom.com
Registrar URL: www.enom.com

lets ask him: Roger - why ? you could do a simple website for education purpose.

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The first thing that came to my mind is how much money the guy would have made if he decided to monetize the site. I mean, the list are endless like marketplace, trading site, exchanger or even a wiki page with ads on it. But never mind, at least I'm glad that it didn't fall into the hands of a person who would misuse it.

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Quote from: franky1 on May 17, 2015, 04:03:52 AM

it was originally bought simply to preserve the bitcoin community and to stop scammers buying up the name and placing fake information on it or trying to extort the community.

imagine if the bank of england/bank of america bought it instead of a bitcoin community member.. imagine the propaganda the banks would write on the website to talk people out of investing in bitcoin. highlighting things like volatility and darkweb usage, etc.

im glad the majority of main bitcoin branding is in the hands of the community members

Do you have any sources where I can read on this ? Bad thing about it is that the domain is sitting like a useless domain there and if he decided to sell it , the price will be very high . Anyway the domain of btc.com is in the hand of the liar Josh Garza that claimed to purchase it over 1 million USD

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Quote from: celestio on May 16, 2015, 09:56:03 PM

That's weird, there was a website on there for the longest time.

The latest snapshot is from April 8th.

http://web.archive.org/web/20150408221825/http://www.bitcoin.com/

I think they are down for maintenance.

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bitcoin.com is not necessary to use it, why we need to use that domain when everything working perfect as we are growing as nice community, i dont think that domain can help to skyrocket the growth so discussion about this is just feed the trolls.

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If Amazon, the final frontier, ever accepts BTC and converts 0% of it to fiat (instead, paying BTC to all who previously got paid fiat), I'd probably point bitcoin.com there (or have a geo redirect so if you're in the UK you get sent from bitcoin.com to amazon.co.uk instead of amazon.com - unless amazon.com itself already redirects like that).

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Quote from: franky1 on May 17, 2015, 04:03:52 AM

it was originally bought simply to preserve the bitcoin community and to stop scammers buying up the name and placing fake information on it or trying to extort the community.

imagine if the bank of england/bank of america bought it instead of a bitcoin community member.. imagine the propaganda the banks would write on the website to talk people out of investing in bitcoin. highlighting things like volatility and darkweb usage, etc.

im glad the majority of main bitcoin branding is in the hands of the community members

Has he bought all the other similar names like bitcoin.org and bitcoin.co.[insert country here]? There are surprisingly few misinformation sites at the top of the search results for those sorts of names, so they must be in safe hands.

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it was originally bought simply to preserve the bitcoin community and to stop scammers buying up the name and placing fake information on it or trying to extort the community.

imagine if the bank of england/bank of america bought it instead of a bitcoin community member.. imagine the propaganda the banks would write on the website to talk people out of investing in bitcoin. highlighting things like volatility and darkweb usage, etc.

im glad the majority of main bitcoin branding is in the hands of the community members

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Whats the sense to buy that domain and dont use it?, just waiting to made some real&huge profit with it in a near future? dunno.

Quote from: MicroGuy on May 16, 2015, 10:19:27 PM

Maybe he would consider redirecting it to bitcoin.org while the domain is not in use?

That would seem to be more beneficial to the currency than a dead domain.

agree with you 100%, if he love this community and the BTC world he should do something about it,also doing something with it is like helping to himselft ( if his purpose is to sold it later ) so i cant understand why the domain is not used atm.

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