Show HN: Sell those domains you’re not using anymore

Adding my domain ( language-homework.com ) was fairly painless. You could make it easy to add the redirect (of the domain to the sales pages) by adding a DNS target. For example, if i point my root to your IP, you'd return a page that redirects to your website on the correct page ?

Re: Show HN: Sell those domains you’re not using anymore

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 11:20 AM UTC

lecarore wrote: post #5

Adding my domain ( language-homework.com ) was fairly painless. You could make it easy to add the redirect (of the domain to the sales pages) by adding a DNS target. For example, if i point my root to your IP, you'd return a page that redirects to your website on the correct page ?

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Re: Show HN: Sell those domains you’re not using anymore

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Post by NiceNamesOrg » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 11:51 AM UTC

lecarore wrote: post #5

Adding my domain ( language-homework.com ) was fairly painless. You could make it easy to add the redirect (of the domain to the sales pages) by adding a DNS target. For example, if i point my root to your IP, you'd return a page that redirects to your website on the correct page ?

Thanks for the suggestion. The potential problem with that is that it forces me to always use the same IP for https://nicenames.org because a lot of domains will be tied to that IP. I could use a CNAME, of course, but that's actually more complicated for the average user to set up than a straight forward (particularly because if you want to set up a CNAME for the naked domain (example.com), the way you do that differs from DNS provider to DNS provider (some places the feature is called ANAME, and some places it's called something different), and some don't offer that functionality at all.

Compared to that, forwards are very straight-forward (no pun intended) and are offered by virtually all registrars.