Live data from Hacker News

Namebox - sell your unwanted or unused domains

namebox.io

21–30 of 82 posts

Re: Namebox - sell your unwanted or unused domains

#23
post #12
post #10

$24,999.00 for freepopemail.com? Somehow I can't see a business based around free mail from the Pope ever earning that much revenue.

free-pop-email.com in case you were being facetious.

From what I understand facetious to mean, should you be saying "in case you weren't being facetious" ?

Re: Namebox - sell your unwanted or unused domains

#24
post #11
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, that was my reaction as well. Why legitimize and enable domain squatting?

I don't think this makes squatting any easier than the existing tools to sell domains. I'm giving the creator the benefit of the doubt and assume they did this because, like me, they probably have tens of domains they don't plan on ever using.

>because, like me, they probably have tens of domains they don't plan on ever using.

So, you mean, small-scale squatters are okay; large-scale squatters are not?

Re: Namebox - sell your unwanted or unused domains

#26
Really nice and well done. However, there are multiple services like this – it would be cool if there would be a cap on how much you demand for a domain, like $200 or something. That way this really would be the place to load of domains and give them to someone who might have more use of them than me.

Those complaining that this makes squatting easy – not true. I myself have collected 30-40 domains over the years for projects that I want/will/should build – but never have built... I keep renewing the domains "just in case", but if I could list them for $50 to $200 each and know that someone else will use them for a good purpose, I would.

Re: Namebox - sell your unwanted or unused domains

#27
post #6

Does this offer an escrow service for transferring domain ownership? Being able to list and browse available domains is nice, bootstrapping negotiations is nice too, but the purchase closing is the most tricky part and the ownership transfer via a third party is an absolute must. GoDaddy offers a service like this and it costs few hundred $ per transfer.

Really cheap service. Without ownership transfer this service is pointless.

Whats next? Make a plattform with bootstrap to sell Real Estates, or Cars ?

Re: Namebox - sell your unwanted or unused domains

#28
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

free-pop-email.com in case you were being facetious.

From what I understand facetious to mean, should you be saying "in case you weren't being facetious" ?

Facetious means flippant, not mean. OP was spot on.

Re: Namebox - sell your unwanted or unused domains

#30
post #11
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, that was my reaction as well. Why legitimize and enable domain squatting?

I don't think this makes squatting any easier than the existing tools to sell domains. I'm giving the creator the benefit of the doubt and assume they did this because, like me, they probably have tens of domains they don't plan on ever using.

You might be right. This is another of Drew's projects and here's his domains listed http://namebox.io/drew/
Post reply on HN