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Re: Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name

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Post by 6510 »

d0m wrote: post #56
dvduval wrote: post #22

So many domain names I bought and never used. Haha the idea seems so great at the time. I suppose you just have to go about trying different things until you start to have some traction. it's just important to recognize that it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking something is going to be super simple, and then starting to execute without any sort of detailed plan. The result ... Wasted time and money

Yeah, but it's a relatively low investment and you often just need one idea that works to pay for all the crappy ones

Or just keep telling yourself that

Re: Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name

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Post by ryanwaggoner »

Just a reminder that the type of person who comments on HN is probably not that representative of the average consumer.

I don't know if the approach outlined in this article is a good one or not, but I wouldn't be even slightly surprised to find out that the way the typical person searches for things, selects results, evaluates credibility, and takes action, bears virtually no resemblance to how many of us here on HN approach the same things. So take all the withering criticism of this article and approach with a huge grain of salt. I've made many hundreds of thousands of dollars online with methods that would never work with many HN users.

Re: Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name

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Post by zanderwohl »

6510 wrote: post #66
asdff wrote: post #57

What is a great domain name? Decades ago it was essential to have an e in your name (eBay et al), then it was cute to replace that e with i, but the whole while the golden rule was to definitely whatever you do, do not use a name out of the dictionary, to make it easier for consumers to identify your product and to save you legal headaches. Nowadays, companies seem to love having a real dictionary name. Lemonade: ref…

>Decades ago it was essential to have an e in your name howabout turbobiking2000.com

2000 is the most futuristic number, as we know.

Re: Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name

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Post by carapace »

I sort of did this the other day, I've got an idea, I think it's a good one, but it's inchoate. I got a domain name (.live because it was on sale! $6.99!) and spun up a $5/month VM on digital ocean, running Caddy server (https FTW!) to present a bare landing page with a little animated network eyecandy.

The point is, it's so motivating! I feel like a real participant now! I'm on the Internet y'all!

Re: Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name

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Post by GeneralTspoon »

lwneal wrote: post #68

You don't need to bid up the price of existing .com domain names. Even in 2020 there are plenty of perfectly good ones that nobody has claimed yet! All you need are two or three words that satisfy the following criteria: 1. The words, when spoken, should be easy to spell. 2. The words, when read, should be easy to pronounce in any English dialect. 3. The words, when concatenated, should not create any ambiguity (a la…

The first one I got was:

torquatawhether.com

Possibly the most confusing domain name I’ve ever seen in my life, lol.

Re: Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name

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Post by marktangotango »

lwneal wrote: post #68

You don't need to bid up the price of existing .com domain names. Even in 2020 there are plenty of perfectly good ones that nobody has claimed yet! All you need are two or three words that satisfy the following criteria: 1. The words, when spoken, should be easy to spell. 2. The words, when read, should be easy to pronounce in any English dialect. 3. The words, when concatenated, should not create any ambiguity (a la…

> Even in 2020 there are plenty of perfectly good ones that nobody has claimed yet!

> https://startupname.website

Something seems amiss here...

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Post by onemoresoop »

kebman wrote: post #69

I tried to register a really cool name. Suddenly it was registered after all. Funny how that goes... Thought me to never trust a domain name registrar again. Could I have sued them? Perhaps, but at the time that was way too economically risky a prospect for me to undertake, while most likely having to pay court costs even if I won.

Yeah, happened to me once and got the same suspicion as you. I let it go and moved on as well

Re: Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name

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Post by lwneal »

GeneralTspoon wrote: post #75
lwneal wrote: post #68

You don't need to bid up the price of existing .com domain names. Even in 2020 there are plenty of perfectly good ones that nobody has claimed yet! All you need are two or three words that satisfy the following criteria: 1. The words, when spoken, should be easy to spell. 2. The words, when read, should be easy to pronounce in any English dialect. 3. The words, when concatenated, should not create any ambiguity (a la…

The first one I got was: torquatawhether.com Possibly the most confusing domain name I’ve ever seen in my life, lol.

When I was hiking in Western Australia I saw a beautiful Eucalyptus tree. But I didn't know whether it was Eucalyptus aquilina or Eucalyptus torquata.

So I went to torquatawhether.com to find out. Sadly, no one had registered that domain yet.

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Post by bitpush »

pot8n wrote: post #23

HN trending expectations: how eBPF works HN trending reality: How I make a zillion dollars a day with a yet another SEO/web scraping/reselling domains business

I still enjoy reading HN because every once in a while something good comes up. But you're right, most of the time this site is overrun by a lot of SEO types and folks who want a quick buck.

In my opinion, most people see a posting and go directly to the comments to see _what I should feel about this_

Re: Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name

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Post by SergeAx »

> You chose BikeTours.com didn’t you? You better have.

If in a hurry, I am basing my decision on search engine rich snippet. If there is a lump sum in the game - I'll check both sites.

> If you didn’t, you can close this browser tab

Thank you for saving my time :)

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