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I sometimes buy domain names on my phone, late at night, in my bed. Usually after hours of laying in bed building out a business in my mind and iterating over a
by hrayr 10y ago
I sometimes buy domain names on my phone, late at night, in my bed. Usually after hours of laying in bed building out a business in my mind and iterating over and over to see where it leads. Buying the domain name seems to be the last step in the processes, it helps me sleep.
I look at the list of my domains every once in a while and pick ideas to work on, but sometimes I have no idea what drove me to buy them, like parttimehuman.tips
- eightturn 10y agoI do the opposite : ) I buy the domain, and then put myself to sleep skipping through biz avenues.. A fun tool to use for hand-reg domains (if you didn't know already) https://instantdomainsearch.com/ https://instantdomainsearch.com/
- mezod 10y agogood trap tool for godaddy to get domains you are interested in
- wavefunction 10y agoI use geektools, they've been around forever and I've never had any domain I've looked through there sniped away from me.
- mezod 10y agosame here with gandi.net, thanks for sharing!
- nickfromseattle 10y agoDo you have personal experience getting sniped with LDS? I've used it a half a dozen times and always had success.
- officialjunk 10y agoI've been sniped a few times with instantdomainsearch.com when actually proceeding through to godaddy, but then not buying it within about a day. Haven't had any issues when not going through to godaddy, though.
- beau 10y agoThat's surprising. Network Solutions was caught doing something like this (http://domainnamewire.com/2008/01/08/network-solutions-faces-pr-nightmare-over-domain-frontrunning/ http://domainnamewire.com/2008/01/08/network-solutions-faces...) but I've never seen any evidence that Go Daddy does anything like this. Blake Irving is a good man.
- SwellJoe 10y agoAs an aside, I first heard about instantdomainsearch.com from Beau at a Y Combinator event. He was working on Snipshot, and considered the domain search as an old side project that wasn't all that interesting anymore. It's interesting to see that the domain search is still up and running and Snipshot is gone. I wonder which one made more money in that decade+.
- beau 10y agoInstant Domain Search did. People visiting the site tend to be ready to buy a domain, and Go Daddy does an amazing job of converting that intent into an actual sale. Most if Snipshot's users tended to use the tool to crop and apply filters to photos they posted to social networks. Whoops.
- SwellJoe 10y agoThat would have been my guess, but I didn't want to make assumptions about the Snipshot acquisition.
- _jdams 10y agoWill be a good domain to have once we make way for our robotic overlords and see our usefulness decline
- dazc 10y agoAlas, for me, developing said domain is the last step in the process. This can be costly unless one values ones time in zeros.
- erikb 10y agoI hope your nick name is never linked to a real life identity, dude. And it reminds me a little of this one: http://xkcd.com/350/ http://xkcd.com/350/
- overcast 10y agoGood lord, my rainy day project domain purchases is a mile long at this point. So many transactions done just before falling asleep in bed.
- macca321 10y agoI made a thread for this a while back, its a fun read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9334927 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9334927