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Re: Ask HN: Domain names you bought for a start-up that never happened

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agha.st - no idea, just wanted to snap it up pleasedontcall.us - IT sob stories 55-0.org - eventually a simple site for gay rights awareness, after the Argentina 55 to 0 vote in favor of the Gender Identity Law (it's a progressive law; I know it sounds like it could be either).

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- poetwee.com - poetry, twitter style. All driven through Twitter and various hashtags for votes, comments. - uneducation.net - a network for learning things a more disorganised way.

As a Brit, poetwee reads as 'poet wee', where 'wee' is a colloquial term for urine.

Re: Ask HN: Domain names you bought for a start-up that never happened

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MobileAppStore.com (i also owned the .net .org .mobi)

No i didnt come up with it before the app store but it was still pretty early.

Ended up selling it to a domainer who still owns it as needed cash at the time to buy another domain which is part of my http://www.LiveFanChat.com domain faimly (gulp the only X,XXX domain i've ever bought).

Keep wishing i didnt sell it as its just sitting there being used for nothing.

Re: Ask HN: Domain names you bought for a start-up that never happened

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I've got a ton, but hold hope that I'll polish them off and finish them some day. As for the domains I'd be happy to get rid of, here they are:

Whatdeliversto.me and whatdeliverstome.com -- both intended to compete with GrubHub, but never happened.

Typemotion.com -- was a blogging platform that was actually pretty good. Got acquired for a small sum of money, then the buyers folded and gave the domain back. It's an odd story, but I've always liked the domain.

Governaut.com -- was a blog for awhile when I was a federal contractor. Had a site set up to act as a social network for other federal contractors and discuss common IT situations, work constraints, etc. Never got around to doing more than just the blog though, and never got traction.

Vaginawear.com -- bought while I was drunk. I remember there was a really good idea behind it, but that idea was nowhere to be found after I sobered up.

AppDiem.com -- Groupon for mobile apps. We were partnering with mobile developers to release on-sale apps, a new one each day for each target platform. Shuttered a year a more ago.

babylum.com -- Was designed to be just like leandomainsearch, as a side project. Then leandomainsearch launched,a nd babylum was no longer needed.

Then, there's the 'porn' domains. This was another drunk idea that I realized I didn't have the gumption to actually do when I was sober, and since I couldn't be expected to be drunk through the entire development process, eventually just realized that I'd not do anything with it. These domains are gold though (in a porny sort of way.) - getnakedgetmoney.com, getnakedgetpaid.com, getnakedwinmoney.com -- I think the domains explain the business models.

Re: Ask HN: Domain names you bought for a start-up that never happened

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post #46

I've got a ton, but hold hope that I'll polish them off and finish them some day. As for the domains I'd be happy to get rid of, here they are: Whatdeliversto.me and whatdeliverstome.com -- both intended to compete with GrubHub, but never happened. Typemotion.com -- was a blogging platform that was actually pretty good. Got acquired for a small sum of money, then the buyers folded and gave the domain back. It's an od…

In the UK the female body decoration the 'vajazzle' has become a talking point because of the TV show 'The Only Way is Essex'. I would guess someone trying to sell vajazzles would be in the market for your Vaginawear.com domain, so there might be some money in it while the fad is ongoing.

Re: Ask HN: Domain names you bought for a start-up that never happened

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I still have quite a few but it's still my intention to build on them. I tend to let the ones that are hopeless expire, but the one I wonder about is wheresmyflight.com. When I was traveling a lot, I noticed that the flight status and plane locations were much more accurate on the airline's freight websites. If Twilio had been around I probably would have created the application, but sending SMS and voice messages wasn't really practical at the time.
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