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

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Post by Doctor_Fegg »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Pretty much this. Lots of people get there by Googling for "cycle travel", and that's fine.

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

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Post by Doctor_Fegg »

landgenoot wrote: post #200
Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #116

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I laughed out loud at this example, because I run a site with (what I reckon to be) one of the best domain names for exactly that use-case: https://cycle.travel

I'm using it regularly, it's great! Only one thing that has room for improvement: if you download the .GPX, it always has the same name. It would be nice if it would indicate the date or destination.

Date is a great idea - thanks! If you've saved the route it'll use that as a name, and I haven't wanted to complicate the UI by adding a separate name field (understanding the various GPX file formats is complication enough). But I hadn't thought of adding the date. Will do that.

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

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Post by Doctor_Fegg »

wazoox wrote: post #121
Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I laughed out loud at this example, because I run a site with (what I reckon to be) one of the best domain names for exactly that use-case: https://cycle.travel

And it's a damn good useful website with that.

Thanks!

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

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Post by anonytrary »

mdgrech23 wrote: post #173
hanoz wrote: post #164

The best thing about coming up with and then buying a great domain name for your new business idea is that thinking of one uses so much creative and analytical energy, diverted from considering the business itself, and delivers such a dopamine hit on completing the purchase transaction, that you don't need to proceed any further with developing the idea whatsoever.

lol this perfectly explains why I have a collection of domain names. might as well be an idea log where you pay for each entry.

It's more like an idea log where each entry is a lottery ticket. There's an abysmally small chance that someone will want the exact same domain name as yours and just happens to be able to offer you tons of money for it. This gets less likely over time as the short names get taken up.

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

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Post by basscomm »

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 automaticgorilla.com. I don't know much about automation or gorillas, but I'm pretty sure that the intersection is an unfilled niche.

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

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Post by josefresco »

MattGaiser wrote: post #100
ericzawo wrote: post #11

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What a shitty thing to suggest doing—especially at this time.

The author acknowledges that it is unethical.

Comment author here: Yeah I don't get it either, I clearly said it was unethical. Oh well.

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

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Post by havetocharge »

DangitBobby wrote: post #181

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 calle…

Isn't the same true of Bitcoin or much of everything else?

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

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Post by cableshaft »

Scarnface wrote: post #154
hobofan wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've had to enter in my wife's phone number for various things enough times I know it better than my own phone number now (Meijer mPerks alone I've done it probably 300 times). But outside of that, my own, and my parent's phone number, which has never changed, I don't know any phone numbers.
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