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How on earth did you get readme.com? I'm assuming someone else owned it, whenever I see that and all the "make an offer" links I move on and ignore it. Was the process easy?
Someone has to be the first one. I once registered web.site. I had it for a week or two before I tried pointing it at a server at which time someone noticed and took it off me.
This... isn't how domain registration works.
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Someone has to be the first one. I once registered web.site. I had it for a week or two before I tried pointing it at a server at which time someone noticed and took it off me.
> at which time someone noticed and took it off me. This... isn't how domain registration works.
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It wasn't called ReadMe originally... I happened to be browsing HN, and came across a post with someone offering readme.io for free, and I was like "oh that's a great name!" (I ultimately paid $3k as a thank you) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6397526 For the first few years, we used readme.io as our domain. When we did our Series A, I finally bought the .com for $170k. By that point I knew we were successful,…
Wow I can't fathom the .com being worth that much. Did you manage to do any sort of math on whether the .com has helped bring in $170k of sales? Or how many years it would take to break even.
Did you have any conclusions?
I had a look at the page, couldnt see anything you'd written up :-)
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> at which time someone noticed and took it off me. This... isn't how domain registration works.
I mean it absolutely could be. For a lot of these weird TLDs, it's a single company that makes its own rules as to who owns a domain. Not saying the person you're replying to is right or wrong, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
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Wow I can't fathom the .com being worth that much. Did you manage to do any sort of math on whether the .com has helped bring in $170k of sales? Or how many years it would take to break even.
It’s an asset they can resell, and he validated the $170k price himself by paying that much.
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It’s an asset they can resell, and he validated the $170k price himself by paying that much.
It's only worth that much to a company named Readme. If no such company exists, and no company is willing to rename itself to that, then it's not worth that much. It's worth $170k times the probability that there is or will be a company that wants to buy it for that much.
It's worth that much to any business that wants readme.com and believes it to be worth 170k. You don't need to be called Readme to want that domain. There are plenty of tech companies that want vanity domains to point to parts of their offering. I can easily imagine Microsoft, Jetbrains, Atlassian, or Replit making an offer for it.
That said, by far the most likely way any company would acquire it would be as part of acquiring Readme as a whole. If you want to exit by selling (rather than IPOing) the value of your assets still plays a small part.
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> at which time someone noticed and took it off me. This... isn't how domain registration works.
I mean it absolutely could be. For a lot of these weird TLDs, it's a single company that makes its own rules as to who owns a domain. Not saying the person you're replying to is right or wrong, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
I'm happy to say that the reports of my death here are greatly exaggerated :) I'm the owner of both #4 and #140 on the Top-scoring Show HN Stories that Didn’t Survive... but both are very much alive! #4 StackSort was a Github.com page, but on 2021 they made it so only Github.io wroks. If dang sees this, I'd really appreciate if you could change the URL for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5395463 to use github.io…
If we're going by vote count, my "show HN" should be #30, but it's not on the list at all.