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Re:Good idea or not: freecycle for domain names by cschneid on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @12:44AM (#433245)
I do that myself. I buy a domain name on a whim (alcohol sometimes present...), and then later the project never materializes.

I've let a few expire, and a few I've "given" to charity by hosting something for them.

Question: how do you handle multiple people wanting it?

* First come first serve

* "Bid" => money to charities

* Fight to the death

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Re:Good idea or not: freecycle for domain names by pbrown on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @01:32AM (#433304)
Rock, paper, scissors.

Seriously though, the bid (to charity) idea makes sense, but I foresee original owners getting greedy when they see what they could've gotten. Then they may pull it and "sell" it instead. You'd have to somehow set it up so they "give" a middle man the site, and then the middle man transfers it. Interesting idea though, I'm in. I've got about 15 domains I don't need.

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Re:Good idea or not: freecycle for domain names by petervandijck on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @01:24AM (#433296)
Fight!
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