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Congrats btw, its good to hear a success story that does not have a course or affiliate/sales link attached!

(Although I have spent a bit more than that on a totally different domain a few years ago, perhaps I should blog that!)

Several call backs over weeks that it will be 'looked at'. Total lie.

I can never sell on ebay again, but can buy buy buy.

Anyone from ebay reading this - sort your shit out. It is laughable.

If you have the budget, buy the best you can. Lots for sale from 'domainers' and a few grand can buy really nice domains.

Don't skimp on your long term online identity !

Good domains on .com or relevant local tld such as .co.uk are worth snapping up.

It has got a comedy show on at the moment.

Sounds very scummy.

Is there any benchmark on other registries for that figure?

What AI are they using? It must be like a toddler.

Source: Being in UK.

If you are in a market with a strong local ccTLD get that - examples being .co.uk and .com.au

Good names cost money - perhaps look to see if you can rent or do staged payments?

It might be a sixth form debating point, but you have also have previously posted "The problem is that it has become acceptable to treat ideas as dangerous. For example, if I want to deny the Holocaust, that is my right."

That is where I bow out, with a link to show how such 'ideas' and 'rights' have real world impact during this pandemic https://twitter.com/dashaburns/status/1332798207911399424?s=...

Have a great day / life etc.

Considering the OP is calling into question why this person was booted from some social media, posting lies about public hospitals and their staff during a pandemic seems a fair reason.

Shame the posts on Twitter remain and a shame Twitter themselves have not taken action.

Why would someone who deals in facts do such a thing? Surely the correct position would be to correct and remove.

Personally anyone who refers to his material is tarnished.

On a general point, there are many people now growing in fame (and monetising that) due to the pandemic. Are their interests aligned with a pandemic ending, what do they pivot to?

Original reporting and content would be your differentiator and that takes time and effort. What if you are a terrible writer? What if news breaks when you are away or 11 PM and later?

Creating an audience overnight is very hard so there needs to be a runway.

That local audience won't like you writing an inquest report into a local hero who used drugs, or a 'heart of gold' type who killed someone in opaque circumstances. Elections? You are biased! Even if you are not.

100k people should be able to do about 1m pageviews a month on non-rubbish content. Adsense base thats about $1000, but direct sales would be where the revenue is.

News is old almost instantly, you need to keep the ball spinning.

Don't build an aggregator, no one will care.

Do it properly, and don't expect to make money :-)

Good luck!