Don't overestimate the price of owning a site. It is really cheap today, even for a big one with millions of users. All that bullshit about "we overbloated our site with ads because we need money to support the site" is a complete bullshit. Nearly all money from ads goes directly to the pockets of sly owners.
Site like win costs a few thousand dollars a year, including payments for win domain zone. Or even less, if you own some company in the networking sphere. If you are unlucky, incompetent and don't know where and how get reasonable pricing for hosting/collocation, may be ten-twenty thousands. Even that is not a huge sum of money, definitely available to the independent and enthusiastic person from middle class. There are enough prosperous conspiracy theorists around, so, at least, it is completely possible.
IDK, who is win owner, but absence of ads is definitely not a sign of anything. In no case you really need an ads to keep your site up and running.
how do you know that? May be it stands for X Window System - standard GUI system for UNIX (and eventually Linux) systems, developed long before MS Windows?
Some company registered a heap of first level domains in attempt to make a profit from selling subdomains. .win is just one of few dozens and mean something connected with games.
Be curious, check everything, dig deeper. Making big fat fortune guesses have nothing common with conspiracy.
Thanks for the reply. Your information appears to be correct. My comment was not. It wasn’t a bad guess, I misread my source. The .Win is just meant to be marketed for gamers apparently. “.Win” is not for windows and they already have their own at “.Windows.”
Interesting how there aren’t any advertisements here.
I wonder where funding for this site comes from....
Don't overestimate the price of owning a site. It is really cheap today, even for a big one with millions of users. All that bullshit about "we overbloated our site with ads because we need money to support the site" is a complete bullshit. Nearly all money from ads goes directly to the pockets of sly owners.
Site like win costs a few thousand dollars a year, including payments for win domain zone. Or even less, if you own some company in the networking sphere. If you are unlucky, incompetent and don't know where and how get reasonable pricing for hosting/collocation, may be ten-twenty thousands. Even that is not a huge sum of money, definitely available to the independent and enthusiastic person from middle class. There are enough prosperous conspiracy theorists around, so, at least, it is completely possible.
IDK, who is win owner, but absence of ads is definitely not a sign of anything. In no case you really need an ads to keep your site up and running.
Anyone else bothered by the fact that the “win” in “.Win” stands for Windows. The whole domain extension is for Windows/Bill Gates.
how do you know that? May be it stands for X Window System - standard GUI system for UNIX (and eventually Linux) systems, developed long before MS Windows?
Really that have nothing with GUI. https://icannwiki.org/.win
Some company registered a heap of first level domains in attempt to make a profit from selling subdomains. .win is just one of few dozens and mean something connected with games.
Be curious, check everything, dig deeper. Making big fat fortune guesses have nothing common with conspiracy.
Thanks for the reply. Your information appears to be correct. My comment was not. It wasn’t a bad guess, I misread my source. The .Win is just meant to be marketed for gamers apparently. “.Win” is not for windows and they already have their own at “.Windows.”