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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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Bit of a tangential rant ahead...

> Shhhhh shhhh. It’s ok. Sure, some domains were. And the buyers aren’t scumbags. If someone buys real estate dirt and won’t sell to you for pennies 10 years later, do you suck thumb and whine? Nah. Same deal here. While you were binge watching Walker, Texas Ranger in 1995, these folks were spending hours faxing through domain name orders & risking their own cash on a new thing called the Internet. They’re just investors, and smart ones at that.

Every asshole has a way to rationalize his or her behavior. Scalpers, thieves, scammers, et. al. justify their toxic behavior exactly the same way. Being a saavy business person doesn't make you not a piece of shit. I see real estate and come to the exact opposite conclusion of what's written above. It is shitty that you get to bleed money from me just because you showed up 50 years earlier with $30k before I was even born. How the fuck is that business accumen? It's profiting off of your position against people who never had the same opportunity. I would call it predatory.

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

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My 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…

Same, though I think the BikeTours/GoSojourn thing may just be an imperfect example of a point that is correct. A better example (for me at least) would be backroads.com vs. something like biketourstoday.info. The former is distinct, trustworthy, memorable, greppable, and just good. I thought a lot about these things in starting my business. While capiche.com doesn't say anything about SaaS, I think it resonates with…

The link is great, for anyone else who enjoys taking mostly meaningless things way too seriously.

I take issue with greppability. Unnecessary as long as you can use regular expressions to search for whitespace bounded terms.

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

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I don't think I would have started rsync.net if the domain rsync.net had not been available.

It sounds ridiculous - a completely artificial stumbling block that would be easily hurdled ... and yet ... the entire basis of the business was a cloud storage platform that was so basic you could understand exactly how it worked just by seeing the domain name.

As an aside, I asked for, and received, explicit permission from the maintainers of the 'rsync' tool before launching and using the domain name ...

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

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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

found the VC

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

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author here. I sell onions on the internet. does that qualify? Check out my homepage for other developed domain projects.

And damn good onions to boot. I'm a very happy customer.

Just got this year's 10lb box about a week ago or so. He does old school postcard mailers to remind you the upcoming season is arriving. Nice way to cut through the noise. It worked on me.

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

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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

Thanks. It took me a bit to get to it, but I've watched it.

I am something of a fan of onions. They are good lung support, but can be somewhat hard on the gut. Vidalia's have always been my favorite onion because they are so mild, so they are easier on my touchy gut.

It's one of the reasons your article caught my eye.

Best of luck with your endeavors, both online (finding your writing voice) and off (selling onions, or whatever it is you do out in meat space).

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

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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…

That's apparently what the bobbleheads.com guy did, it's linked in the article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/warren-royal-bobbleheadscom_n...
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