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wolf550e on Oct 15, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: My story of applying, getting in, and being a mom ...

I guess with domains, "squatter" is one who buy lots of them for cheap without knowing which (if any) will turn out to be useful, and "broker" is one who buys few expensive domains intending to resell them, like real estate.

markdown on Oct 15, 2014 [–]

I guess one can make that distinction.

In my dictionary a squatter is one who meets this criteria:

1. Buys a domain with the sole intention of reselling it for profit.

2. Does nothing with it while sitting on it... ie. doesn't develop a website one it other than a shitty squatter landing page.

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