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Re: Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?

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Post by jaredstenquist »

These are the better ones I have. Mostly acquired for different startup ideas I'm riffing on.

- read.io

- tit.io

- fix.io

- foodcopter.com (for when drones deliver your dinner of course)

- burgercopter.com (same reason)

- pizzacopter.com (same reason)

I've developed a simple tool for parking unused domains. Just set your nameservers and the whole inquiry process is automated. Would love feedback! http://parktap.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?

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Post by alexleclair »

http://facestositon.com/ - This was a small-business idea to mock the UK porn laws. It was supposed to be floor pillows with caricatures of various politicians.

http://30mars.ca - This was an old gift from 2 years ago to a special someone who's birthday's on march 30th.

http://sfew.co - Was supposed to be a shortlink address for Selective Few. Still not using it.

http://branlettedenoel.com/ - This was a xmas card for a card contest. It's conveniently called "The great xmas jerk off"

Re: Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?

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Post by ryanthejuggler »

This is embarrassing, I've got so many started/abandoned projects. I suppose if anyone were interested in one of these projects I'd be glad to chat about either working together or selling the domain, depending on the project.

warning: this post contains sarcasm

- http://subwaytim.es - subway tracking service

- http://thankyouforriding.com - game for coders to optimize operation of a subway system. Thought of this during Boston's terrible public transit struggles this winter

- http://gitforgovernment.org - wanted to encourage city/state govts to put their legislation on GitHub and accept pull requests. THAT would have gone well

- http://enginomicon.com - planned to put my course notes from my mechanical engineering degree online; make a Wikipedia for all types of engineering

- http://everyref.com - created before I discovered devdocs.io and wanted to make a quick ref for coders. Right now you can search HTTP statuses, but the project is pretty much dead; I'm not sure if I even still have the code for it

- http://stupidprogrammertricks.com - place to put little projects and small demos. So far the only demo is a properly-installed nginx server :-P

- http://uwherever.com - wanted to create a place where people applying to college could organize their efforts, see when deadlines fell across colleges, publish their acceptance/rejection for other students to see, etc. As you can see I spent a lot of time picking a name for this

- http://spinner.graphics - planned to spend a quick weekend making a few AJAX loading animations and presenting it with ads, because who doesn't have at least one site that they're only doing for the money?

- http://beer-n-code.com - planned to make a public directory of bars with wifi suitable for meetups. So far only has a mesmerizing ASCII beer mug on it

Re: Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?

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Post by Stratoscope »

mylog.com/.net/.org - registered in July 1998. I'd designed (but didn't get around to building) a "personal log" that you could always bring up instantly with a hotkey, type something in right away, and it would never lose it. You wouldn't have to think about filenames, saving your data, or anything. It would just keep your notes in chronological order and let you search for stuff or give it more organization later. The motto was "Always ready. Never forgets."

evernote.com - registered in January 2000. Nope, not mine. But it was funny to see so many of the same ideas (no, they didn't steal them from me), including the elephant "never forgets" logo!

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