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Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by partomniscient »

xrd wrote: post #8

Tem years ago a friend and I arranged the FOSCON event, which was the free OSCON for people who couldn't afford that conference. O'Reilly was happy to collaborate with us by the way. We had an event where DHH and a bunch of other cool people came out to support us. As the MCs, we pretended to be the founders of a new company that was going to take on Twitter and Kevin Rose's new Pownce. We had slides between each pre…

>We had an event where DHH and a bunch of other cool people came out to support us.

I just found it amusing that you could interpret this in more than one way.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by xrd »

partomniscient wrote: post #11
xrd wrote: post #8

Tem years ago a friend and I arranged the FOSCON event, which was the free OSCON for people who couldn't afford that conference. O'Reilly was happy to collaborate with us by the way. We had an event where DHH and a bunch of other cool people came out to support us. As the MCs, we pretended to be the founders of a new company that was going to take on Twitter and Kevin Rose's new Pownce. We had slides between each pre…

>We had an event where DHH and a bunch of other cool people came out to support us. I just found it amusing that you could interpret this in more than one way.

I'm dying to know what other interpretation there is.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by axaxs »

gmurphy wrote: post #3

One night a few months ago, after two large beers I imagined up a domain name that was SO PERFECT that I HAD TO BUY IT and swore that this time, unlike all the others, I was TOTALLY GOING TO DO SOMETHING WITH IT. The next morning, looking for an excuse to not get out of bed, I actually followed through: https://haikupotamus.com/

Neat idea, two thoughts:

On mobile, it completely breaks the back button. I had to swipe about 50 times and watch it letter by letter to get back here.

Secondly, what's the data source? I just tested 'segue' which counted as 1, which makes me think it's guessing instead of like, a word map. Just curious now.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by prawn »

Excitedly bought pjg.com.au off the drop list. Because of the underline on the link, I assumed it was pig.com.au. Realised my mistake and made a list of companies with the initials PJG, pitched them, and sold the domain for 10x what I paid. Not worth the hassle all up! Looks like it's lapsed and been bought by a domainer since.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by bhartzer »

notamy wrote: post #2

Slightly related, I have a bunch of domain names I don't necessarily need -- acquired in the same vein as in the article (jokes, failed/abandoned projects, ...) -- and would be interested in selling them somehow if possible. Is there any general advice for how one goes about this? Is it just parking pages and hoping someone stumbles across them? Or is there a more-specific marketplace or something of the like?

For selling domains uiu can list them on afternic or sedo. But if you don’t want to wait to sell, just list on nameliquidate, the Reverse auction for domains.
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