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There's certainly artificial scarcity caused by people buying up domains and then sitting on them and doing nothing. I have a side project I've been working on

There's certainly artificial scarcity caused by people buying up domains and then sitting on them and doing nothing. I have a side project I've been working on where I'm blocked in deploying it because I haven't been able to find a good domain name that isn't taken. Now, none of the domains I've thought of are actually being used, but they've mostly been registered for ~10 years by people who apparently have no intention of actually developing them. In a couple cases, they are listed as for-sale, but people are asking tens of thousands of dollars, which I simply can't afford for a side-project in a very niche market.

ohashi 16y ago
You're not launching because you can't find a good domain name? Sounds more like an excuse than anything else. I see about a post every month on HN about how someone creatively found a good domain name, but you're here complaining everyone wants 10's of thousands of dollars for them. Hate to say it but average sale price on Sedo (one of largest domain markets) is only around 2000$. Plenty of names to be had at reasonable prices, and plenty of creative ways to find ones available to register.
- kscaldef 16y ago
  Yes. I have a full time job which I have no intention of leaving. This is a personal-itch side project that I spend a couple hours a week on, at max, with a really limited potential market. If you want to be constructive, I'd love to have links to some of the posts you're thinking of or suggestions of "creative" ways to find available domain names. That said, even $2000 is more than I want to spend on this.
  - ohashi 16y ago
    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=114920 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=114920 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075953 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075953 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1606333 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1606333 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1244824 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1244824
  - jtheory 16y ago
    Hey, if you aren't too paranoid about it, send me an email with some details of what kind of name you need, what niche you're targeting, etc.. I've been pretty good at brainstorming up good domain names for friends' projects over the years that aren't registered yet. No promise I'd come up with something for you, but if I have a few minutes to procrastinate I can give it a shot. It's getting harder, certainly, but sometimes you luck out.

ohashi 16y ago

You're not launching because you can't find a good domain name? Sounds more like an excuse than anything else. I see about a post every month on HN about how someone creatively found a good domain name, but you're here complaining everyone wants 10's of thousands of dollars for them. Hate to say it but average sale price on Sedo (one of largest domain markets) is only around 2000$. Plenty of names to be had at reasonable prices, and plenty of creative ways to find ones available to register.

kscaldef 16y ago
Yes. I have a full time job which I have no intention of leaving. This is a personal-itch side project that I spend a couple hours a week on, at max, with a really limited potential market. If you want to be constructive, I'd love to have links to some of the posts you're thinking of or suggestions of "creative" ways to find available domain names. That said, even $2000 is more than I want to spend on this.
- ohashi 16y ago
  http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=114920 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=114920 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075953 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075953 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1606333 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1606333 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1244824 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1244824
- jtheory 16y ago
  Hey, if you aren't too paranoid about it, send me an email with some details of what kind of name you need, what niche you're targeting, etc.. I've been pretty good at brainstorming up good domain names for friends' projects over the years that aren't registered yet. No promise I'd come up with something for you, but if I have a few minutes to procrastinate I can give it a shot. It's getting harder, certainly, but sometimes you luck out.