[Zeebrommer]

> You’d have to be specifically watching the domain friendster.com at the right time to find and participate in the auction, or you’d have to actively watch gname.com daily to see this auction.

You're telling me there's no "notify me when domain X becomes for sale" service?

[FinnKuhn]

> You're telling me there's no "notify me when domain X becomes for sale" service?

I looked into this a while ago and I'm pretty sure that there are hundreds of these services and even ones you can host yourself. No idea how well they work though.

[dgellow]

A domain being for sale can mean a lot of things. Here it meant it was auctioned on a very specific website

[randomtoast]

> You're telling me there's no "notify me when domain X becomes for sale" service?

I guess in today's age you would just schedule an agent to check the website every day.

[ryanjshaw]

Geez who did you offend? Half your comments are dead for no obvious reason I can tell. Vouched for you but you may want to reach out to @dang.

[Tade0]

I think it started here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627269

[fnordian_slip]

Wouldn't that be rather inefficient, from a resource perspective?