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

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Post by swanson »

eightturn wrote: post #149
swanson wrote: post #143

I love this article just because so many commenters hate it. I really like the super niche side-projects -- I ran an analytics site for minor league football, built with a couple of Ruby scripts and a free Netlify plan. Was featured on ESPN, famous NFL twitter accounts, and did a million pageviews in 2 months. I licensed the data to a fantasy football site and it was starting to make money before the league shut down…

author here. It is fun to see the differing opinions on domain names.. very split audience. thanks for sharing.

Yeah I didn't do it "domain-first" but love the idea. Still own the domain: noextrapoints.com, seems good for a football related site.

Just bought "streamerjobs.com" for $13 inspired by your post. Maybe a job board for Twitch/YouTube people to hire video editors.

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

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Post by radicalriddler »

bonestamp2 wrote: post #86
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...

I got trumpdoctor.com. Seems timely.

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

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Post by eightturn »

swanson wrote: post #151
eightturn wrote: post #149

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author here. It is fun to see the differing opinions on domain names.. very split audience. thanks for sharing.

Yeah I didn't do it "domain-first" but love the idea. Still own the domain: noextrapoints.com, seems good for a football related site. Just bought "streamerjobs.com" for $13 inspired by your post. Maybe a job board for Twitch/YouTube people to hire video editors.

that's a good jobs domain. nice grab.

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

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Post by Scarnface »

hobofan wrote: post #136
dangwu wrote: post #118

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Do you think having an unusual TLD (travel) is hurting you at all? If someone told an average person to go to "Cycle.travel", I'm not sure that they would understand that to be a web address.

From my experience, such an effect is generally far to small to be a deciding factor (in the beginning). If you look at the traffic of most websites, very few visitors come directly to your website by entering the domain into the address bar (because visitors are far too lazy to type out an address). The biggest chunk normally comes from other websites directly linking to you (this includes search engines and social…

As a kid I knew every one of my friends phone numbers. I couldn't tell you my nearest and dearest now because typing this kind of info manually is long gone.

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

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Post by eightturn »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #148
eightturn wrote: post #133

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thanks.. just enjoy sharing this domain name world as I see so much opportunity there for small builders to compete with big corps.

Feel free to post some of your stuff to r/GigWorks. I'm the mod there and I also run r/ClothingStartups and I am always actively on the lookout for "tipping point" style ideas where a small thing makes a big difference and can be done as a microbusiness, which is smaller than a small business. Small business is typically defined as like 10 to 100 employees and I am looking at tiny teams of more like 1 to 5 people as…

for your nostalgia, here's a video that the GA Dept of Ag just produced on our farm.. Aries (farm owner) is in vid (I'm not in this one).. notice the domain at the end : ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0oNolfKfgc

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Post by jliptzin »

Normille wrote: post #125
nelaboras wrote: post #95

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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.

It's a bit of a stupid concept though, isn't it? A man bought a domain name called "shippingsupplies.com" so he decided to get into shipping supplies and now he's a zillionaire? So, assuming, as the article suggests that people buy a catchy domain name first and then build a business round it, which isn't one they're already involved in or know anything about, how does that conversation go?: ---- MAN: Hi. I've decide…

Like any other bootstrapped business you’d start off small so that you don’t need to ask anyone for a loan. In this case, that might mean partnering with a distributor of shipping supplies and doing drop shipping direct to the customer or something similar.

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

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Post by kebman »

ValentineC wrote: post #87
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?

No, some other local site. Was a real bummer, and pretty sad business practise if you ask me.

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Post by gowld »

lwneal wrote: post #78
GeneralTspoon wrote: post #75

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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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