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Ask HN: What's the best place to park my inactive domains?

16 points by brightball 5y ago

Does it matter? Is there a good location?

aclelland 5y ago
Cloudflare only charge you the icann fees for most TLDs and don't make a profit on the same. If you fancy saving a few dollars over another registrar it might be a good place? You can also use their page rules to easily do domain forwarding or just server up some static content from S3 with caching enabled
joezydeco 5y ago
CNAME it to 127.0.0.1 and forget about it. Unless you plan to put them up for sale or something.
- dddw 5y ago
  CNAME is at most registrars only available for subdomains. So you can do do that with www.somedomain.tld but need DNAME permission to do the same for the root.
  - icedchai 5y ago
    Why bother? You can just add an A record for the root, and a CNAME for the subdomain.
code_Whisperer 5y ago
I have been pretty happy with this system https://www.newsy.co?r=newsyco-1000 https://www.newsy.co?r=newsyco-1000 (disclaimer: I am a customer not an owner, and this is an affiliate link. Feel free to remove the querystring if you object to affiliate links)
dddw 5y ago
I used domainholder.io to sell a parked domain, someone here posted it some time ago. Very easy.
terrycody 5y ago
Can you attach this domain to blogger.com for free?
sideproject 5y ago
I created Newsy - it's a different way of parking domains. I'd say it's the "modern" way and it's way better (but I'm biased). https://www.newsy.co https://www.newsy.co Newsy turns your unused domain name into a content aggregator (think of Reddit-clone). But it's completely automated so you set it up once and you can leave it running. It comes with all the features you'd expect from a Reddit-like content site (e.g. membership, newsletters, comments, social sharing). Contents are discovered based on the keywords you specify. Monetization is also built in. You can add your own ads, get paid for sponsored posts or even charge membership fee. Would love for you to try it out.
- brightball 5y ago
  Interesting! I'll definitely take a look.
cpach 5y ago
I would create a static site with Hugo, host the repo on GitHub and then publish it using AWS Amplify. You will probably not go over Amazon’s free tier. If you want to quickly create a barebones Hugo site, feel free to clone this repo: https://github.com/cpach/piper https://github.com/cpach/piper AWS Amplify is very convenient to set up.

16 points by brightball 5y ago

Does it matter? Is there a good location?

Cloudflare only charge you the icann fees for most TLDs and don't make a profit on the same. If you fancy saving a few dollars over another registrar it might be a good place? You can also use their page rules to easily do domain forwarding or just server up some static content from S3 with caching enabled

joezydeco 5y ago

CNAME it to 127.0.0.1 and forget about it. Unless you plan to put them up for sale or something.

dddw 5y ago
CNAME is at most registrars only available for subdomains. So you can do do that with www.somedomain.tld but need DNAME permission to do the same for the root.
- icedchai 5y ago
  Why bother? You can just add an A record for the root, and a CNAME for the subdomain.

code_Whisperer 5y ago

I have been pretty happy with this system https://www.newsy.co?r=newsyco-1000 https://www.newsy.co?r=newsyco-1000 (disclaimer: I am a customer not an owner, and this is an affiliate link. Feel free to remove the querystring if you object to affiliate links)

dddw 5y ago

I used domainholder.io to sell a parked domain, someone here posted it some time ago. Very easy.

terrycody 5y ago

Can you attach this domain to blogger.com for free?

sideproject 5y ago

I created Newsy - it's a different way of parking domains. I'd say it's the "modern" way and it's way better (but I'm biased). https://www.newsy.co https://www.newsy.co Newsy turns your unused domain name into a content aggregator (think of Reddit-clone). But it's completely automated so you set it up once and you can leave it running. It comes with all the features you'd expect from a Reddit-like content site (e.g. membership, newsletters, comments, social sharing). Contents are discovered based on the keywords you specify. Monetization is also built in. You can add your own ads, get paid for sponsored posts or even charge membership fee. Would love for you to try it out.

brightball 5y ago
Interesting! I'll definitely take a look.

cpach 5y ago

I would create a static site with Hugo, host the repo on GitHub and then publish it using AWS Amplify. You will probably not go over Amazon’s free tier. If you want to quickly create a barebones Hugo site, feel free to clone this repo: https://github.com/cpach/piper https://github.com/cpach/piper AWS Amplify is very convenient to set up.