I lost count at about 65 domains registered to myself, and i am wondering am i "odd" having 65 domains registered to me, and not a company? How many do you have?
Ask HN: How many domains do you personally have registered to you?
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#2Actually, thousands.
For people/companies active in domains there are those with hundreds of thousands registered. Buydomains.com has close to a million domains registered.
For our company name, we have 108 variations (just checked) which includes typos as well as tacking "www" on to the name and "sucks" and "inc" as only a few examples (the majority are typos though)
65 domains is not odd at all.
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#3108 and I've cut down a lot this past year
Re: Ask HN: How many domains do you personally have registered to you?
#4Actually, thousands. For people/companies active in domains there are those with hundreds of thousands registered. Buydomains.com has close to a million domains registered. For our company name, we have 108 variations (just checked) which includes typos as well as tacking "www" on to the name and "sucks" and "inc" as only a few examples (the majority are typos though) 65 domains is not odd at all.
but thats for a company name... i am talking for personal stuff? i have my name as a .com, .net and .ie (being irish). I have projects i started years ago and registered domains for. so, im just wondering about domains registered for personal use?
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#5I have 7: The vanity domain I use for all my email, a domain for hosting puzzlehunts, a .name domain I've done nothing with, a domain with a vaguely puzzley name I am saving for some future use that will never happen, and four unused domains corresponding to sites that sounded like they'd be cool to make at one point or another, of various levels of silliness.
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#6Oh Jeez... 42, all unique. Somehow I plan to use them all at some point in time. I used to have around 60 but I got rid of some over time.
It's a bad habit we all have. We get an idea, find a domain name for it, find out it's already taken, we find the person's WHO.IS info, call them up and ask them if we can buy it from them, they say "no I have plans for it", we call em a "domain squatting asshole", then a few weeks later, we get another idea, find available domain names, register them, and sit on them for years and years (preventing others from using them), then when someone calls us asking to buy one of our domains we tell them the same thing that one "domain squatting asshole" told us. "We have plans for it."
I can't tell you how many times I've tried to contact people to buy their un-used domain only to have them tell me that they're "very close to launching". A few years later I check back and guess what, it's the same "coming soon" splash screen from last time.
Every few years I recheck domains that I wanted, just to see if the person gave up on them. Sometimes they do. That's how I grabbed up vgost.com (video game original sound tracks).
I notice more expensive TLDs like .vg .tv and other don't have this problem. So deep down inside I kind of wish the base price for .coms would increase to $50/year. A LOT of good domains would open up then. Guys like us can't afford to keep them all. Naaa, Actually I've been really good about selling my domains. Just sold one a month ago for $500 on the first call.
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#7Two.
Re: Ask HN: How many domains do you personally have registered to you?
#8I have about 6 but I've cut back to avoid dead weight.
I'm curious, has anyone tried keeping theirs with a list price in a reseller and occasionally selling one and to pay for keeping their development dreams (unused ones) paid for? Does that strategy work? Realistically, will anyone come calling?
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#9I've got 3, and am trying to convince myself to not renew one of them. But you know, I just might use it someday, and...
Re: Ask HN: How many domains do you personally have registered to you?
#10Probably about 20 with half on the do not renew list as things didn't work out.