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Re: Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?

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Post by simmons »

I'm glad I'm not the only one with a domain name hoarding problem. After being burnt in the early days by missing a nice domain name to someone who registered it an hour before, I resolved to always register a domain name as soon as an idea came to me, even if the possibility of me using it was very remote. In the past few years, I've been trying to shed them, although it pains me to see domain squatters snag them as soon as they are available and put up tacky sites.

A few domains that were never used, that are on my to-shed list:

- indoorcloud.com - tools for self-hosting cloud services on your own hardware at home, back before everyone else was doing that.

- captainfriday.com - if you like high adventure, come with me.

- artevar.com, artavar.com, artivar.com - third-party web widget for guiding users in the construction of a cartoon avatar.

- denvertechscene.com, denvertechscene.org, beavertonwiki.org, beavertonwiki.com, pdxwiki.org - local interest sites.

- ulati.com, wunni.com, zylli.com, xylli.com, ymile,com, ypoly.com, xorri.com, xorra.com, xonno.com, ycolo.com - short, abstract names that might be useful for arbitrary sites.

Domains I may stubbornly keep for a while longer:

- cipherpal.com, cypherpal.com - Resources/news/discussion for cryptography and privacy tools. (A play on cypherpunk.)

- webreadnews.com - explore ideas for next-generation online forum/messaging/discussion.

- polipal.com, politicrack.com, politacrack.com - Casual MMORPG game; compete against other players guiding your politician's rise to power from dog catcher to president.

Re: Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?

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Post by stanmancan »

simonswords82 wrote: post #19

http://www.thingsclick.com - blog/advice guide on how to run a software house plus ebooks on the subject and tools http://www.truesta.com - Possibly a replacement for spreadsheets with built in workflow and auditing. Good for companies that are over reliant on spreadsheets and need to share that data and most importantly keep it accurate. http://www.expirify.com - domain/ssl cert expiry reminder service http://www.in…

Expirify... I wonder how you'd fair by crawling, finding SSL certs that are going to expire in X days/months, looking up their email in the WHOIS and emailing them a reminder to renew and include a URL to the same company they originally purchased it from but include an affiliate link when possible. I guess the issues are that a) It's kind of spammy and b) The people purchasing SSL cert's might also by the type of people who don't follow random links in emails.

Re: Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?

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Post by ryanthejuggler »

saryant wrote: post #13

http://thismeetingcost.us http://gohomecnnyouaredrunk.com — This one actually does point somewhere but I never got around to doing much. Just screenshots of the news networks being stupid. http://kennedycolectivo.com http://pointabulator.com — This was supposed to be a tool to figuring out all the possible uses of your airline/hotel points. At its most extreme this is essentially like trying to solve a sudoku puzzle…

Hey, if you want some content for thismeetingcost.us, I whipped up a little something: http://jsbin.com/rubale/

Re: Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?

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Post by ccashwell_ »

simonswords82 wrote: post #19

http://www.thingsclick.com - blog/advice guide on how to run a software house plus ebooks on the subject and tools http://www.truesta.com - Possibly a replacement for spreadsheets with built in workflow and auditing. Good for companies that are over reliant on spreadsheets and need to share that data and most importantly keep it accurate. http://www.expirify.com - domain/ssl cert expiry reminder service http://www.in…

Expirify seems like a great service. Judging by the responses here, "if you build it, they will come."

Re: Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?

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Post by macca321 »

kej wrote: post #36
andrewstuart2 wrote: post #21

2048x2.com Back when it was the cool thing to do, I was going to create a multiplayer (2^n player) 2048 using websockets.

It's interesting what a short window there is for some of these ideas.

If a project won't stand on it own it's own legs without a meme, it's probably not worth doing.

Re: Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?

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Post by tricky »

I was in a coverband and each of our wives were annoyed at how much time we practiced. We joked about naming the band "Men Facing Divorce." I went ahead and scooped these up and never did anything with them:

menfacingdivorce.com

menseekingdivorce.com

womenfacingdivorce.com

womenseekingdivorce.com

I got this one because it is awesome:

http://armp.it

I bought this when I thought I'd become an mobile developer:

http://androidindie.com

Heh, I forgot I owned this one (my startup analyzes USPTO data):

http://isthepatentsystembroken.com/

I was likely drunk when I bought this one:

http://yakbuttertea.com

Re: Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?

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Post by tricky »

erictherobot wrote: post #46

These are just a few - The first one suggests I have too many domain names :( Similar to everyone else, I am a developer hoping to build something useful on them - there's just not enough time in the day. http://admityouhaveaproblem.com http://authenticatable.com http://binarybots.com http://craftyhipsters.com http://failhuman.com http://getanintern.com http://indiehipsters.com http://kissvote.com http://kywrd.com ht…

I like how you have at least a mailchip subscription form on the domains you aren't using. Do you get much activity on them?
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