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Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by jagger27 »

chrismorgan wrote: post #29
jagger27 wrote: post #20

I’ve been sitting on tabvs.space for a while now.

I was curious about tab.vs.space, and find vs.space is unregistered and a premium domain; pricing is high and seems peculiarly inconsistent. Here are the USD prices various registrars list: • get.space says it’s $5,000 (actually NZD7,102.40 and I can’t find a currency switch) to register, and the same to renew. • Namecheap says it’s $3,250 to register, and makes no comment on renewal. • GoDaddy says it’s $3,300 to re…

Naturally when I got the idea I checked this domain first. It’s probably for the best that they price them this way, at least for short domains.

I think it’s a considerably shittier to charge a premium for .dev however.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by jagger27 »

gbrayut wrote: post #48
chrismorgan wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was curious about tab.vs.space, and find vs.space is unregistered and a premium domain; pricing is high and seems peculiarly inconsistent. Here are the USD prices various registrars list: • get.space says it’s $5,000 (actually NZD7,102.40 and I can’t find a currency switch) to register, and the same to renew. • Namecheap says it’s $3,250 to register, and makes no comment on renewal. • GoDaddy says it’s $3,300 to re…

Many TLDs don't count (letter dash letter) as a premium/reserved domain like they do for other dictionary words or 2-3 character domains. Looks like v-s.space is claimed but for example z-s was just $9.99 a year I used that trick when .dev was launched and snagged a-z.dev for all my future domain name needs

That’s a great pickup.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by kpgraham »

20 years ago I bought CThreePO.com hoping to sell it to a Star Wars fan. Nobody wanted it. I still own it. I used it to host my essays and blog about science fiction. It is now hosted on my home machine and the things that used PHP no longer work. Many pages are orphaned. I count about 8,000 pages, although google no longer spiders most of them.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by Minor49er »

onychomys wrote: post #114
jinseokim wrote: post #100

Recently I purchased 'jinseo.kim'. It's formatted like . . I love it.

Now you just need to set up your email server so you can be jinseo.kim@jinseo.kim. That's pretty cool. Or for a less professional version, you could anagram it to mik.oesnij@jinseo.kim.

I think you mean palindrome it. An anagram suggests that the reformed letters spell out other names/words (though mik oesnij almost sounds Icelandic or something)

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by uberswe »

I used to own cheeseonthemoon.com, it was one of my first websites back in high school and I just goofed off trying to be funny. It's still on archive.org where you can read about my theory (misinformation?) that there is cheese on the moon. There was a forum where me and a few friends would discuss random topics.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by petercooper »

I bought "butterwank dot com" a few years ago (it sounds worse to British ears) because I noticed I kept getting phone calls from the registrar's sales team offering me web design services for domains I'd registered. I wanted to see if they would call up and ask me what line of business "butterwank" was in because it would be worth the $10 of entertainment to yank their chain. They never called!
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