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Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
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Re: Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
#62There are a few I am sitting on for lack of motivation:
meetthedress.com
hackmyjob.com
fragtweet.com / tweetfrag.com (Has an app on it, needs more work though.)Re: Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
#63b a c k s c a m . c o m
my idea was for plugin that redirects ecommerce and affiliate-able purchase/product web page links through a hub-site and inserts the site's affiliate id, tracks any original affiliate for record-keeping, collects a commission through having service accounts at each affiliate site (amazon, ebay, etc) and pays the USER a kick-back for their purchase with the site via collecting the commission on their behalf.
Realized they'd be many hurdles and technicalities, but could make a lot of money, perhaps.
Re: Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
#64Not sure we'd trade these, but here they are:
quippo.com
helpcloud.com
Re: Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
#65obamanutpunch.com poofilter.com lawgician.com
i would love to hear your monetization strategy. :)
mostly shits and giggles. the combinations of domains lawgician was going to be a digg/reddit type of thing for legal news -- i don't think its gonna happen soon as doing this right would involve more time than I can give right now.
poofilter originally was intended to filter political news and somehow assess the bias level of the source from left to right, blue to red. someone else did this recently but I forget the name.
obamanutpunch was going to be a simple lolcat-type site of photoshopped photos of president obama punching people in the nuts (see chuck norris here http://www.flickr.com/photos/hitesh/3254005822/). Later, I found out that there were actually 2 definitions in urban dictionary for the term (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Obama%20Nut%2...)
Re: Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
#66Good idea. Although I've also had luck just emailing the contact for a domain, and finding they were willing to give it up. Worst case scenario is some squatter overvalues it and won't sell for a reasonable price. But it is always worth asking. I even had one person randomly email me offering $500 for one of my domains. I didn't reply right away, and two hours later, he upped the offer to $1000. I had the cash in han…
Yea, I've had the same thing happen to me with a name that I posted on Sedo :) For what it's worth, owning a domain and not developing it is not "domain squatting" which is defined by law as "registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting There is nothing wrong with owning a do…
I don't think the real estate analogy fits. You have to pay significant property taxes each year to own real estate(not just $6).
I think a better analogy is registering a corporate name or trademark. If you don't use it, you lose it. You can't just register it and then prevent other people from using that name indefinitely unless they pay you off.
Re: Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
#67I'm sitting on tons, but I've given plenty away over the years too, so I don't think of myself as malicious. Nearly all are from project ideas I had but then never followed up on. ajaxday.com* amonad.com* cocoainside.com* detailedlook.com javascriptinside.com jotpack.com* jsinside.com pythonflow.com pythoninside.com railgrinder.com* railsteam.com (currently giving this away) railswebhosting.com rorhosting.com rubyonr…
i'd be interested in obtaining topichub from you...
Re: Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
#68animedubzone.com bitsboltsandvolts.com bitsboltsnvolts.com bitsboltsvolts.com cashnik.com deletetheinternet.com dunbarsdungeon.com finihd.com graphle.net graphle.org hotelfreehd.com maperate.com phinihd.com proclamate.com pussyandguns.com sandiegomarquee.com schrodingershotbox.com sdmarquee.com seekaview.com streamwhat.com
"pussyandguns.com" -- photos of cats and guns?
Re: Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
#69grabkindle.com
An affiliate experiment. I actually sold a Kindle and made $36!
Re: Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
#70I'm sitting on tons, but I've given plenty away over the years too, so I don't think of myself as malicious. Nearly all are from project ideas I had but then never followed up on. ajaxday.com* amonad.com* cocoainside.com* detailedlook.com javascriptinside.com jotpack.com* jsinside.com pythonflow.com pythoninside.com railgrinder.com* railsteam.com (currently giving this away) railswebhosting.com rorhosting.com rubyonr…
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