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

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

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Post by robertlagrant »

carapace wrote: post #74

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!

If you sign up for a free Cloudflare account you get HTTPS, and you can point it at a Github Pages page for FREEEEE :-)

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

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Post by mikl »

I think this really overstates the importance of domain names.

Owning CameraBag.com isn’t going to do anything for you until you have a competitive product to sell and getting that lined up is what you should be focusing your talents on.

Sure, it might make you look a little more impressive to the discerning consumer who actually reads the URLs. But such users probably also check what the competition offers anyway.

And with modern browsers with search suggestions and modern Google, owning the .com doesn’t bring you many extra visitors, either.

So if you want a side business, create something people will want to pay for. Don’t fret about the domain name, it hardly matters.

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

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Post by bonestamp2 »

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…

> https://startupname.website

The best one I got was roofpotato.com

Sell rooftop potato garden kits? I guess that's my life now...

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

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Post by ValentineC »

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.

> 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.

Let me guess… GoDaddy?

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

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Post by fxtentacle »

While everyone in here seems to disagree, I believe that a good domain name can be worth a lot of money, if it comes with links and traffic.

For example, purchasing a domain to market my audio app which has 100+ inbound links and 500+ unique visitors per day from various blogs for relevant keywords.

If you convert 10% at $9.99, that traffic is worth roughly $15k monthly to you. But it might have been worth significantly less to the previous owner, who only used adwords and didn't sell his own product.

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

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Post by carapace »

carapace wrote: post #74

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!

I didn't read the article before posting above. (ORT: Only Read Title.)

FWIW I think the article is stupid now that I've read it.

"Ignore the bird, follow the river."

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

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Post by mattmar96 »

Reminds me of when people say 'you don't need fancy equipment to make music'. Sure, you don't _need_ it, but a new fancy synthesizer or guitar is investing in your own ability to make art. More than the instrument itself, knowing I made an investment in myself helps motivate me I think.
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