techlinked.com?

[epicfinley]

I'm starting to quite like techlinked now that it's started to settle down a bit (still could do with a few tweaks, but doing very well), and I was wondering whether techlinked.com could become a thing? The domain is currently for sale and it would, imo, make a good complement to the youtube channel. As LMG is already researching and writing the content for the shows I would imagine that it wouldn't require much effort to add a few paragraphs or two to turn the current scripts into articles. I'd personally really like it - it would simply add some formality (e.g I could get away with reading it at work, whereas I couldn't get away with watching the videos) to the already high-quality news content coming out of techlinked.

What do you all think? @nicklmg

 

 

[iRileyx]

£2500($2995) for the domain though.. damn.

 

I don't see how spending that much on it could make it worthwhile to them to be quite honest  

[epicfinley]

Just now, RKRiley said:

£2500 for the domain though.. damn.

 

I don't see how spending that on it could make it worthwhile to them to be quite honest  

A 2.5k fixed total cost of ownership of the lifetime of an asset is barely anything when you take into account lifetime earning potentials  

[IgorM]

1 minute ago, epicfinley said:

A 2.5k fixed total cost of ownership of the lifetime of an asset is barely anything when you take into account lifetime earning potentials  

3k would be a quite low investment for a company like LMG. 

[Cookybiscuit]

2 minutes ago, IgorM said:

3k would be a quite low investment for a company like LMG. 

Linus drives a Lambo, 3K isn't an "investment" he probably wipes his arse with 3K.

[IgorM]

2 minutes ago, Cookybiscuit said:

Linus drives a Lambo, 3K isn't an "investment" he probably wipes his arse with 3K.

hahaaha didn't want to go that far but 3k is almost nothing for LGM to spend.

[Christophe Corazza]

12 minutes ago, epicfinley said:

A 2.5k fixed total cost of ownership of the lifetime of an asset is barely anything when you take into account lifetime earning potentials  

 

Buying a domain name for life is somewhat of a tricky statement. It's tricky because "for life" does not necessarily mean until you die.

"buying" a domain name is never actually "for life"

 

Since domain name registrations are not tied to the life of any registrant (regardless of the entity type), what may provide insight is what the longest period a .com domain name can be registered for is.

The short answer to this is ten years. This limit is set by ICANN. It’s been this way for a long time.

[epicfinley]

9 minutes ago, Christophe Corazza said:

 

Buying a domain name for life is somewhat of a tricky statement. It's tricky because "for life" does not necessarily mean until you die.

"buying" a domain name is never actually "for life"

 

Since domain name registrations are not tied to the life of any registrant (regardless of the entity type), what may provide insight is what the longest period a .com domain name can be registered for is.

The short answer to this is ten years. This limit is set by ICANN. It’s been this way for a long time.

I said lifetime of an asset - not "for life" - which refers to an estimate of the number of years an asset is likely to remain in service for the purpose of cost-effective revenue generation. There are a variety of factors that can affect life estimates, including usage patterns, the age of the asset at the time of purchase, and technological advances. (this may help you out in future: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-01/documents/determine-residual-life.pdf)

[Christophe Corazza]

1 minute ago, epicfinley said:

I said lifetime of an asset - not "for life" - which refers to an estimate of the number of years an asset is likely to remain in service for the purpose of cost-effective revenue generation. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employs useful life estimates to determine the amount of time during which an asset can be depreciated. There are a variety of factors that can affect useful life estimates, including usage patterns, the age of the asset at the time of purchase, and technological advances. (this may help you out in future: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-01/documents/determine-residual-life.pdf)

 

"for life" in the case of buying a domain can mean: Your lifetime? Your company’s lifetime? The world’s lifetime? Forever?

[epicfinley]

I've never said "for life"

 

I have said "fixed total cost of ownership of the lifetime of an asset" which means the cost of ownership ($3000) over the lifetime of an [in this case the domain] asset.

As previously stated the lifetime of the asset is the number of years it would remain in service - to take your figure at face value, you would assign an value for the estimated lifetime at 10 years.

[FuzzyLogic]

Or, get this, they don't buy a new, expensive domain and just make all the techlinked stuff go on linustechtips.com? This way, they don't have to spend a ton of money on something that probably wouldn't make any profits anyways!

[epicfinley]

20 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

Or, get this, they don't buy a new, expensive domain and just make all the techlinked stuff go on linustechtips.com? This way, they don't have to spend a ton of money on something that probably wouldn't make any profits anyways!

Because you'd be restricting traffic to just the users of the forum who will view the video anyway - and won't show up on google news.

 

For example, type 'AMD Ryzen' into google.  What do you see right at the start under 'Top stories' - articles about the subject in questions from websites dedicated to news. Forum posts would never show up there - but a article on a dedicated 'techlinked' website would - drawing lots of traffic (more money from advertising, potentially native advertising?) that wouldn't view the video or lurk on a forum full of gamers but would click and read an news article about the topic in question.

[Egg-Roll]

3 hours ago, TimsTips said:

Waste of money. Just because they have the cash, doesn't mean they should waste it.

Tell that to Disney and Google.

 

Personally I don't see a reason for buying the domain unless they are going to turn it into a magazine or a news outlet.

[Christophe Corazza]

28 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

Tell that to Disney and Google.

 

Personally I don't see a reason for buying the domain unless they are going to turn it into a magazine or a news outlet.

 

Even if they are not planning on building a website for it, companies often buy such domain names for the simple reason of brand protection.

[IgorM]

Just now, Christophe Corazza said:

 

Even if they are not planning on building a website for it, companies often buy such domain names for the simple reason of brand protection.

Yeah, for sure. And if they want to use it in the future it would cost more or it could be already sold. Take Alphabet's case for example

[Christophe Corazza]

1 minute ago, IgorM said:

Yeah, for sure. And if they want to use it in the future it would cost more or it could be already sold. Take Alphabet's case for example

 

You’re completely right. Domain parking can prevent numerous problems further down the line.

[Egg-Roll]

1 hour ago, IgorM said:

Yeah, for sure. And if they want to use it in the future it would cost more or it could be already sold. Take Alphabet's case for example

Google could have made their parent company "Pile Of Poop" Or POP for short... It was simply Google Like Disney showing off their power...

 

1 hour ago, Christophe Corazza said:

Even if they are not planning on building a website for it, companies often buy such domain names for the simple reason of brand protection.

Why not buy LinusCatTips or ChannelSuperFun as well? Unless they have a purpose for the website they can simply use here. Brand protection is still enforceable if the buyer of the domain uses it with intent to mislead their clients, to the point where they could sue the owner and claim ownership of the domain/servers.

[Christophe Corazza]

4 hours ago, Egg-Roll said:

Why not buy LinusCatTips or ChannelSuperFun as well? Unless they have a purpose for the website they can simply use here. Brand protection is still enforceable if the buyer of the domain uses it with intent to mislead their clients, to the point where they could sue the owner and claim ownership of the domain/servers.

 

True, but it is better to be safe than sorry. Trying to anticipate these situations beforehand can save them a lot of trouble, headache and bad PR when they have to go to court against the owner of the domain(s).

[Christophe Corazza]

11 minutes ago, TimsTips said:

Keep in mind that Linus could just take the domain using lawyers and trademark laws. Squatting is technically not allowed.

 

Better to do it that way than reward the squatters. 

 

But that will cost LMG some very precious PR!