@holovision pointed out that proofofbrain.io is expiring today. It usually takes a week for the domain to go blank after its expiration. When that happens all of the links we placed to proofofbrain.io will go dark.
You can see the domain status for proofofbrain.io on domaintools.
This situation where domains go dark is called "link rot."
Proofofbrain.io is not the first domain in the Hive-O-Sphere to go dark. If you sort through the HIVE-Engine Token List; you will find a large list of dark domains for projects that never panned through.
Sadly, domains going dark has a deleterious effect on the HIVE-O-Shere.
Perhaps HE Should Aquire a Short Domain
The problem of unrenewed domains is ongoing.
One solution would be for HIVE Engine to buy a short domain. One could then create a subdomain for each HIVE tribe.
There are several short domains in the Hive-O-Sphere already. One could take an existing domain.
Hive.io is a domain that promotes developing in the HIVE-O-Sphere; so I will use it as the example.
HIVE Engine could offer the tribes the option of creating a subdomain on the short url for each token using the token symbol.
So, in this scenario
- POB could have the url pob.hive.io
- CCC could have the url ccc.hive.io
- TIX could have the url tix.hive.io
- etc
If the tribes had a subdomain of a common URL; then the tribe could live on after the person who owns the tribe's domain loses interest in the platform and lets the domain expire.
Using the token symbol for the subdomain works because the symbols are short an unique.
If we went this route; HE might consider a structure in which all tokens have a subdomain. The subdomain could show the posts for the tribe, URL forward to a different site or show configuration info about the tribe.
The idea makes sense from a philosophical sense.
HIVE-Engine claims to be a decentralized platform. HE should have a mechanism that lets tribes live on after the person who bought the domain for the tribe loses interest.
The idea also makes sense from an SEO perspective as domains with multiple busy subdomains fair well in SEO formulas.
A Holding Company for Domains
Personally, I think HIVE would be wise to have a holding company for the domain names. The holding company should encourage holders of failing hive tribes to transfer ownership to the holding company rather than letting them expire.
The holding company could URL forward links from failed domains to a new domain. For example leofinance.io forwards to inleo.
BuyNburn will burn some POB
I fear that POB will drop dramatically after the loss of its domain. I see that it has fallen below 0.01 HIVE.
HE says the supply is 7,741,531.094. The current price is $0.00306 and the current marcap is $23,689.
I will use the HIVE and the HBD earned on this post to buy tokens on HIVE-Engine. I will place some low ball bids for POB as the price of the coin reflects the loss of the domain name.
Lets Burn Some VYB
I recently burned the POB held by the @buynburn account. I think I will burn the 242 VYB that I've been holding.
The Verify Your Brain Tribe has the URL vybrainium.com. This tribe forked from POB over questions about coin distribution. Since it is a fork of POB, the site just happens to list all of the posts for POB.
As I understand, VYB doesn't give rewards to people who upvote their own post. I don't know if this is true.
HIVE Engine reports that the current float of VYB is 7,256,202. It trades at $0.00033 giving it a reasonable marcap of $2,394.
For the last several weeks there has been a BID for 0.00099999 and a sell order for 0.001. The gap between buy and sell is just 0.00000001.
Hmmm, I wonder why that is?
Could it because I am the one with the 0.00099999 bid and I keep renewing it?
It will be interesting to see if VYB falls when proofofbrain.io goes blank. It is possible that the fall of proofofbrain.io will be a boon for vybrainium.com.
