"Staff picks": "seargent.ai" What the heck is a "seargent"? I assume they mean "sergeant"?
Oh Christ, I can't believe I made such a stupid mistake. Gonna go fix that now, brb!
Thanks for pointing it out btw!
One-Word Domains
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been moving domains from Namecheap to Porkbun due to ever increasing renewal prices, it's something like $5 cheaper per domain with Porkbun. I didn't see the 15x increase you saw though.
Hmmm...I'm debating between Porkbun, Iwantmyname and Domain.com - which one do you guys think I should add next?
I can vouch for iwantmyname. Great customer support that went above and beyond what they had to. They even worked with Protonmail to get my custom domain functioning.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
You bring up a good point, and I've been pondering about this for a while now - do you think I should remove all the hyphens from the domains before querying them? Like, instead of "extra-small.com", should I be querying "extrasmall.com" instead?
Are you the author? If you're new to marketing: domains with a dash in them are considered seconds rate to domains that don't have a dash.
Unless it's a term like hip-hop. Then I think the hyphen is appropriate and even sought after.
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#134Hi Steven! Nice work here and I'm really inspired by the design, especially because this is your first web-app from scratch. I've always wanted to learn frontend programming/ design but am intimidated by CSS/ Bootstrap since there are too many screen sizes to take account of. Could you recommend resources/ links to learn more about frontend design/ programming? Thank you!
Hey Adam! Thanks a lot for your kind words! And I totally get where you're coming from - I've always been intimidated by responsive designs as well, but then I learned about percentages and screen-size specific designs and though the process is a little tedious, I was able to finally make my designs responsive and conducive on different screen sizes.
As for resources, I usually refer a lot to CSS Tricks, Codepen.io, W3 Schools, GeeksforGeeks, and good old StackOverflow when I'm building my websites. Hope this helps! Also, feel free to reach out to me via Twitter - I would love to keep in touch with you there!
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#135I bought one for an app... that I haven't even started building. I feel like a straight up squatter now :( but seriously who is going to visit your site when the domain is name is myawesomeapp2020.com might as well purchase the domain in advance right?
Hahaha yeah, I used to buy a bunch of domains thinking that I was gonna do something with them only to end up letting them expire in a year :'(
But don't worry, you'll find a viable business idea/business model for it soon, I believe in you!
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#136Thanks OP. Just picked up impartial.app - might try a just-for-fun side project and hook it into some sort a decision making algo and/or crowd-sourced vote. Premise: User can't decide something and must enter N possible options, then have the app pick the winner. Twist: The user doesn't ever define the problem, just potential choices. a) $20,000 b) Snowball it c) Propose d) Cupertino Impartial.app says: __________
Oooh, I love this idea! Can totally see how this could replace random number generators and make the whole user experience - however brief it might be - 10 times as amazing! Great choice!
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#137I have quite a few in this category that would probably sell. Are you considering allowing listings?
Yes! I'm actually considering adding a "Featured Listings" section where you can list your domains - feel free to sign up on the newsletter and I'll let you know when it's ready! :D
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Decent ones become available as dropped domains from time to time. The whole dropping domain process is convoluted, gross and benefits big players, but I have seen some decent ones fall through the cracks.
I lost quixote.com to a missed renewal e-mail and my being too cheap to pay the $20 fee for the expired domain thinking I could pick it up when it was released (in hindsight, ridiculously dumb). To make things worse, it was picked up by a Los Angeles film equipment company and for a while when I was taking grad math classes at CSULB, I would drive past a parking lot filled with trucks with quixote.com emblazoned on t…
God, that sounds awful! I'm so sorry that happened to you :(
This also goes to show how big the domain aftermarket is - perhaps next time you could list your domains on sites like Dan.com, where they'll renew it for you automatically and help you find buyers who are willing to pay for your domain?
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting! I didn't know that Namecheap was into domain name squatting but I guess the cat's out of the bag now! As for the note, I'll have to figure out how to do that because right now, all I can do is filter out the premium domains - which I suppose are the ones that are being scalped, right? Also, thank you for your kind words! And wow, I didn't know that people would actually sell lists like this - I was just…
How do you know that it’s the registrar (namecheap) that owns it and not one of their customers?
Great question! I'm not so sure myself - anybody knows anything about this?
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Be careful with namecheap. I used to use them for everything (and still have several domains registered with them), but one of my domains was a short word on an obscure TLD. This year they increased the price by 15x, and support tried to pass the blame by claiming "the registry decided it's a premium domain." The registry may decide whether a domain is "premium" or not, but I had no issues transferring it to Google D…
I had the same thing happen! I bought a domain a long while back, it auto-renewed and charged me more than $500 for 1 year. I've never used the domain properly and would have just let it lapse, they did warn me of the pending auto-renewal but I ignored it thinking it would cost $30 or something. This was for a `.club` TLD.
That's crazy! Tbh it's kind of a jerk move on the domain registrar's side - by labeling a certain TLD as "Premium" they get to charge extra on the renewal/registration fees. Pretty unethical I'd say :(