Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?

Re:Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? by petercooper on Thursday June 11, 2009 @01:15PM (#653127)

I'm sitting on tons, but I've given plenty away over the years too, so I don't think of myself as malicious. Nearly all are from project ideas I had but then never followed up on.

ajaxday.com* amonad.com* cocoainside.com* detailedlook.com javascriptinside.com jotpack.com* jsinside.com pythonflow.com pythoninside.com railgrinder.com* railsteam.com (currently giving this away) railswebhosting.com rorhosting.com rubyonrailswebhosting.com richlanguage.com rollwall.com roted.org* rotes.org* rubyandhow.com rubypedia.com rubyweekly.com scalainside.com* spacepit.com* startupfreude.com* superyay.com* tipteam.com* topichub.com*

I don't think I'd be willing to unconditionally give/swap away all of these, but I'd say for at least half I would (I've put stars next to those). For example, I consider the Rails Web hosting ones to have value - I just haven't bothered to do anything with them yet. Some of the others I am "squatting", in a sense, in order to prevent competitors infringing on my brand.

Sorry for the formatting.. too lazy to fix it, but actually realized it doesn't look too bad as a horizontal list anyways..

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Re:Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? by petercooper on Thursday June 11, 2009 @04:11PM (#653522)

Big thumbs up to the starter of this thread, by the way. I've already given away three domains in the last two hours..

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Re:Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? by adrianwaj on Thursday June 11, 2009 @04:35PM (#653563)

Will they get used though? You'd hope so.

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Re:Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? by petercooper on Thursday June 11, 2009 @04:43PM (#653588)

I've adopted a sort of honor-driven set of conditions with the people I've given them to - a "domain traders' code," if you will:

1) If you don't use the domain, I get first refusal to have it back. 2) If you do use the domain, and if I request, you'll give me a link on the site someplace. (More a speculative thing than anything..) 3) If you go on to sell the domain/site for big bucks, you'll remember me and get me something from my Amazon wishlist ;-)

It's all honor-bound and ridiculously hard to enforce, but I'm a big believer in honor, so who knows.. :)

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Re:Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? by RandomPersona on Thursday June 11, 2009 @04:52PM (#653599)

superyay.com is possibly the most amazing domain I've ever seen. I can't even look at it without chuckling.

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Re:Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? by endlessvoid94 on Thursday June 11, 2009 @01:21PM (#653141)

i'd be interested in obtaining topichub from you...

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Re:Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? by petercooper on Thursday June 11, 2009 @01:29PM (#653164)

It's yours. E-mail me at [my username]@[my username].co.uk and I'll sort out the auth code and unlock it for you.

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Re:Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? by endlessvoid94 on Thursday June 11, 2009 @03:18PM (#653399)

I tried emailing you but got a bounce. [petercooper]@[petercooper].co.uk, right? (obviously without braces, ha)

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Re:Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? by tomerico on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @11:22AM (#660317)

It's funny he seemed to try so hard to avoid writing the email directly, and you did just that.

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Re:Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? by petercooper on Thursday June 11, 2009 @03:21PM (#653404)

Weird.. I thought I allowed all e-mail addresses through. Try [my first name] @ [my user name].co.uk instead ;-) As in peter@petercooper :) That should work for sure.

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Re:Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? by poshj on Saturday June 13, 2009 @12:43AM (#655827)

I'd like to know the availability for cocoainside.com. I sent you email yesterday.

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Re:Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? by Keyframe on Thursday June 11, 2009 @03:42PM (#653439)

space pit sounds like a name for a pinball table, I like it :)

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Re:Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? by petercooper on Thursday June 11, 2009 @03:56PM (#653489)

I bought it to set up a PopUrls/Alltop style site for space/astronomy related news. Actually, I might well end up doing that, especially since I could now throw Twitter feeds on to it too..

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Re:Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? by Keyframe on Thursday June 11, 2009 @04:40PM (#653576)

you do that, I will be first one to subscribe!

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