Strange domain names that developers bought
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Strange domain names that developers bought
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Re: Strange domain names that developers bought
#2Slightly 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?
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#3One 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:
Re: Strange domain names that developers bought
#4Slightly 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?
You could try Flippa or Dan.com, or set up your own parked page.
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#5One of my favorite domain purchases was them.us
But I got an offer I didn’t want to refuse and sold it…
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#6I held on to rubygetsrailed.com for well over a decade without ever doing anything useful on it.
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#7Re: Strange domain names that developers bought
#8Tem 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 presentation with awful marketing buzzwords and tried to appear as clueless as possible. We would ask people to quiet down and say things like "Listen, we paid a lot of money for this sponsorship..."
Omitting vowels was all the rage. We called our company:
Sqkwzr.com
(Can you believe that domain was free?)
The company took the concept of Twitter to a whole new level, where you could "tweet" out your farts and things like that automatically. We had a slide with each egress point labeled with hex addresses like 0xa55.
The tagline in the slides was: "every orifice has a story to tell."
Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu founder) was at OSCON that year and I approached him to see if he would attend and pretend he was an investor. I still have the email where he declined.
Re: Strange domain names that developers bought
#9I think I have 7-8 domain names on Namecheap for projects I want to do but never finished?
Re: Strange domain names that developers bought
#10One 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/
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