That's the worst advice ever. Domain parking is a business and if you specualte randomly you are probably going to lose money.
Domain parking is a 'business' that isn't adding any value whatsoever.
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
#92And yet, I still didn't make a single dime from http://butt.ventures
I own failingventures.com, perhaps we should partner.
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#93My mind works exactly the opposite way. If I see a domain like BikeTours.com, I immediately assume that the business is built primarily on the domain name, and the quality of the product or service is inferior. Hence I don’t click it. But I assume the majority of internet users don’t think this way, so it can be a profitable strategy. Edit: Well, thinking about it, it’s not always true, but at the very least I check…
In this case, the article dissmisively advises that you "stop reading and go back to scrolling Facebook". Sick burn from the author!
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#94For anyone interested, or likes looking at recently deleted/expired domains, Pool.com has an interface to find these: https://www.pool.com/deletingdomains.aspx?ia=DomainsDeleting... I'm not in the business, but occasionally browse to see if any "local" domains pique my interest. You'd be surprised how many people "let" their domains expire - if I was a less than ethical hacker, I'd be able to hold many local organiza…
I've looked at that pool.com site a few times, out of idle curiosity. Every time I do so, I never fail to be amazed at the absolute mountain of complete junk domains that has registered. They seem to fall into two categories; the "my cat walked over the keyboard" + com ones, like 342yfgtg.com and the "maybe if I add another word, I'll find a combo that's not been already registered" + ones, like "topgoodholidaybargai…
Yeah. There are tons of bad domain names on those drop lists. I wonder what the deal is with that too.
The new TLDs aren't that bad IMO, especially if you want something short and memorable for a quick site. Last year I wanted a non-SSL site to help out with captive portal redirection and I was able to register wifi.help rather than some crazy long name on an ogTLD.
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#95HN 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
The article is not about domain trading. It's about letting yourself be inspired and pushed by a domain name to try some new venture.
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#96The advice is to buy descriptive domain names and build a business basing your decision "solely off the domain name" that you're able to find. His About page claims that he himself does this. But does he actually do that?
Of the examples he gave – ComputerCamp.com, ShippingSupply.com, KobeBeef.com, CameraBag.com, Pacifiers.com, ZoysiaGrass.com, SouthernCookbook.com, Ziplines.com, CannedHam.com, SexyBastard.com – every one of them except ShippingSupply is a parked domain, spam site, or fails to resolve. Since the article is from January 2017, it seems like the average price of $5388 that people paid at auction for the 9 unproductive sites has been wasted for the last 3+ years.
As far as I can tell, his business is buying and selling domain names. (ShippingSupply, although it looks real enough, does not belong to the author; he writes "sell shipping supplies [is] exactly what this buyer did".) I can believe that the author has a profitable business doing what he does (buying & selling domains), but the artilce does not convince me that building a business around nice-sounding but arbitary domain names with no expertise in that business is a good idea. It doesn't seem like he's doing that.
Re: Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's just a business expense, right? If you're actually going to be building a business on a domain name, it doesn't necessarily make sense to cheap out, just like any other business expense.
It's not about cheapening out, it's an exorbitant amount without much real customer value. "news.ycombinator.com" apparently works just as well as if this was "techtalk.com" or "bizchat.com" or whatever. Yahoo isn't about cowboys, Amazon isn't about rainforests, uber isn't a firm from Germany, Google isn't about mathematics... It really doesn't seem to be correlated with business success. Any made up name will do. Bl…
Does it though? There's little doubt in my mind that this site would have far greater reach (the actual desirability of that aside) if it were located at hackernews.com. I have no idea what the current owner would want for it but I'm sure it's substantial and rightfully so.
Re: Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
#98You 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...
Just got "girlfriendtape.com", can't decide between revenge porn and amateur porn.
Re: Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
#99The advice is to buy descriptive domain names and build a business basing your decision "solely off the domain name" that you're able to find. His About page claims that he himself does this. But does he actually do that? Of the examples he gave – ComputerCamp.com, ShippingSupply.com, KobeBeef.com, CameraBag.com, Pacifiers.com, ZoysiaGrass.com, SouthernCookbook.com, Ziplines.com, CannedHam.com, SexyBastard.com – ever…
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Re: Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
#100For anyone interested, or likes looking at recently deleted/expired domains, Pool.com has an interface to find these: https://www.pool.com/deletingdomains.aspx?ia=DomainsDeleting... I'm not in the business, but occasionally browse to see if any "local" domains pique my interest. You'd be surprised how many people "let" their domains expire - if I was a less than ethical hacker, I'd be able to hold many local organiza…
What a shitty thing to suggest doing—especially at this time.
The author acknowledges that it is unethical.