Ask HN: How many domains do you personally have registered to you? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How many domains do you personally have registered to you?

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Post by mapster » Mon, Jan 02, 2012, 7:12 AM UTC

ChrisNorstrom wrote: post #6

Oh Jeez... 42, all unique. Somehow I plan to use them all at some point in time. I used to have around 60 but I got rid of some over time. It's a bad habit we all have. We get an idea, find a domain name for it, find out it's already taken, we find the person's WHO.IS info, call them up and ask them if we can buy it from them, they say "no I have plans for it", we call em a "domain squatting asshole", then a few week…

1st step is admitting you have a problem. congratulations! I have 6. Grabbed 2 over the holidays. $10 is a small price to pay for a quick thrill.

Re: Ask HN: How many domains do you personally have registered to you?

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Post by ThereRNoDumbQs » Mon, Jan 02, 2012, 7:23 AM UTC

15 or so. About half are held in trust for friends and family. The rest are for me, two sole-prop businesses, and redirects to same.

Re: Ask HN: How many domains do you personally have registered to you?

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Post by tomatohs » Mon, Jan 02, 2012, 9:25 AM UTC

38+ Sometimes I do let names go, but I always end up buying more than I let free. All but 4 are .coms. $10 year is cheap for a centralized namespace.

Re: Ask HN: How many domains do you personally have registered to you?

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Post by GFischer » Mon, Jan 02, 2012, 5:25 PM UTC

Six:

* my full name (couldn't get fischer.com as it's a world-famous company :) )

* 3 side project / startup attempts

* 1 nonprofit attempt

* 1 hopeful startup attempt

PD: how do you format lists on HN? (a link to post formatting would be helpful)

Re: Ask HN: How many domains do you personally have registered to you?

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Post by larrys » Mon, Jan 02, 2012, 5:37 PM UTC

tiernano wrote: post #4

larrys wrote: post #2

Actually, thousands. For people/companies active in domains there are those with hundreds of thousands registered. Buydomains.com has close to a million domains registered. For our company name, we have 108 variations (just checked) which includes typos as well as tacking "www" on to the name and "sucks" and "inc" as only a few examples (the majority are typos though) 65 domains is not odd at all.

but thats for a company name... i am talking for personal stuff? i have my name as a .com, .net and .ie (being irish). I have projects i started years ago and registered domains for. so, im just wondering about domains registered for personal use?

That changes my thoughts.

If you are not buying names to try and resell but only registering because of ideas that you have I would say 65 is a high number. Simply because you couldn't possibly develop that many ideas. (One of the problem with owning many good names by the way is not knowing which one to focus on. If you only own 2 good names you can't stray to far.)

Re: Ask HN: How many domains do you personally have registered to you?

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Post by ereckers » Mon, Jan 02, 2012, 6:26 PM UTC

36 and I could probably cut that by a 1/3 and not notice. Well, I'd notice an extra $120.00 bucks in my pocket each year.

Re: Ask HN: How many domains do you personally have registered to you?

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Post by stfu » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 1:47 AM UTC

a bit over 100, most are just "collectors items" without any projects etc.