Hello,
I will firstly give some background information about what I'm doing and why I need a domain.
I am working on an online game bot called Xerbot. I have currently 2 packages for my bot, one is for eRepublik (
http://erepublik.com/ ) and one for RIFT (
http://riftgame.com/ ), more script packages will be written in the near future.
I initially planned to run my website exclusively on a Tor hidden service, which I have been doing up until recently. I bought a VPS about 2 weeks ago with the Bitcoins I've earned, but unfortunately I did not earn enough to buy the domain. I've made one script sale during the time that I ran the website as a Tor hidden service, which was enough to buy a cheap VPS for a year.
The reason I am moving away from Tor hidden services is because it is really difficult to sell scripts through a hidden service, for various reasons. I used onion.city and tor2web.org to allow the average internet user to visit my site, but that came with a whole bunch of problems. For one, the website is slow most of the time and sometimes proxies like onion.city or tor2web would have various caching issues, which will display a message similar to "hidden service not available" for up to 2-4 days. For the optimal experience, the user would have to install the Tor browser and I really can not expect average internet users to do that just to view my website. The site is also unreachable through Tor sometimes, though that's rather rare in comparison to the proxies' caching issues.
I am currently using the domain xerbot.cz.cc , which is a free domain. It isn't bad, but I will have to purchase xerbot.com regardless if I obtain a loan now, or wait for a few script sales or money through ads which could be in a month or two. The problem with buying it in a few months is that my search rankings will suffer quite a bit once I make the transition from xerbot.cz.cc to xerbot.com , and the search rankings are very important for my business model. It could take months for the website's rankings to completely recover after a transition from one domain to the other.
If a person types "erepublik bot" or "rift bot" into Google or other various search engines I need my website to be within the first few results, which isn't too unreasonable as a goal because there aren't any commercial bots available for these two games.
It's not that I can not afford the domain, I could purchase it with my credit card, I however do not want to jeopardize my anonymity which I have been protecting since the very inception of this project. This also means that I will be unable to give you my identity.
One of the main reasons for protecting my anonymity comes from previous court rulings on automation software like WoW Glider and RSBot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Industries,_LLC_v._Blizzard_Entertainment,_Inc.
tl;dr: Blizzard managed to twist the whole thing into a copyright violation issue, which is absurd.
Similar story with Jagex vs Snellman Brothers (RSBot) and also Jagex vs Impulse Software (iBot).
As for the loan itself, I require about 10$ in Bitcoins for the domain and I will repay 20$ in Bitcoins within 3 months (90 days). I will repay the loan early if I am able to.
In the unlikely case that I am unable to repay my debt within 3 months I can offer script licenses or programming work and also give you whatever I earn through advertisements until the agreed sum of 20$ is settled.
As previously stated, my website can be found at
http://xerbot.cz.cc/ .
Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions or concerns.
Kind regards,
dev
