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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 zaphirplane »

tamask wrote: post #18

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…

Similar I skeptically check if they aggregators or subcontract the actual work our

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Post by gitgud »

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.

This sadly describes my "workflow" perfectly. Think of names for idea, search for one that's available, buy name, project done...

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Post by fxtentacle »

sideproject wrote: post #60

For those who have bought domains but haven't had much time to develop them (like me..) https://www.newsy.co It's something I've been working on to scratch my own itch.

Isn't that mostly copyright infringement? From what I understand, it does automated copying of articles and images from other blogs?

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Post by carapace »

stOneskull wrote: post #194
carapace wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cheers! Thanks for the tip. They also let you serve a static site over IPFS from your domain with a DNSlink record, also for free. :-)

there's a lot of value for $5 though. many, many things you can do with an ubuntu droplet. digital ocean has excellent tutorials for a lot of them too. it's fun.

Yeah, this. :-)

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Post by DangitBobby »

havetocharge wrote: post #208
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?

I guess it applies to almost anything where arriving first gives you a significant advantage over those arriving later, and you use that advantage to extract value from those who have little or no choice but to follow you.

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Post by eightturn »

JasonCEC wrote: post #169
eightturn wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

thanks a ton for the business, Jason.. it means a lot. -Peter

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Post by eightturn »

kovacs wrote: post #185
JasonCEC wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

many many thanks for your business, kovacs. Postcards FTW! -Peter

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Post by dTal »

eightturn wrote: post #120
mysterypie wrote: post #96

The 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…

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

What a shame that the .onion TLD is already being used for some boring nerd thing.
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