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Ask HN: How many domains do you personally have registered to you?

5 points by tiernano 15y ago

I lost count at about 65 domains registered to myself, and i am wondering am i "odd" having 65 domains registered to me, and not a company? How many do you have?

larrys 15y ago
Actually, thousands. For people/companies active in domains there are those with hundreds of thousands registered. Buydomains.com has close to a million domains registered. For our company name, we have 108 variations (just checked) which includes typos as well as tacking "www" on to the name and "sucks" and "inc" as only a few examples (the majority are typos though) 65 domains is not odd at all.
- tiernano 15y ago
  but thats for a company name... i am talking for personal stuff? i have my name as a .com, .net and .ie (being irish). I have projects i started years ago and registered domains for. so, im just wondering about domains registered for personal use?
  - larrys 15y ago
    That changes my thoughts. If you are not buying names to try and resell but only registering because of ideas that you have I would say 65 is a high number. Simply because you couldn't possibly develop that many ideas. (One of the problem with owning many good names by the way is not knowing which one to focus on. If you only own 2 good names you can't stray to far.)
thehodge 15y ago
108 and I've cut down a lot this past year
gwillen 15y ago
I have 7: The vanity domain I use for all my email, a domain for hosting puzzlehunts, a .name domain I've done nothing with, a domain with a vaguely puzzley name I am saving for some future use that will never happen, and four unused domains corresponding to sites that sounded like they'd be cool to make at one point or another, of various levels of silliness.
ChrisNorstrom 15y ago
Oh Jeez... 42, all unique. Somehow I plan to use them all at some point in time. I used to have around 60 but I got rid of some over time. It's a bad habit we all have. We get an idea, find a domain name for it, find out it's already taken, we find the person's WHO.IS info, call them up and ask them if we can buy it from them, they say "no I have plans for it", we call em a "domain squatting asshole", then a few weeks later, we get another idea, find available domain names, register them, and sit on them for years and years (preventing others from using them), then when someone calls us asking to buy one of our domains we tell them the same thing that one "domain squatting asshole" told us. "We have plans for it." I can't tell you how many times I've tried to contact people to buy their un-used domain only to have them tell me that they're "very close to launching". A few years later I check back and guess what, it's the same "coming soon" splash screen from last time. Every few years I recheck domains that I wanted, just to see if the person gave up on them. Sometimes they do. That's how I grabbed up vgost.com (video game original sound tracks). I notice more expensive TLDs like .vg .tv and other don't have this problem. So deep down inside I kind of wish the base price for .coms would increase to $50/year. A LOT of good domains would open up then. Guys like us can't afford to keep them all. Naaa, Actually I've been really good about selling my domains. Just sold one a month ago for $500 on the first call.
- mapster 15y ago
  1st step is admitting you have a problem. congratulations! I have 6. Grabbed 2 over the holidays. $10 is a small price to pay for a quick thrill.
tomflack 15y ago
Two.
ericb 15y ago
I have about 6 but I've cut back to avoid dead weight. I'm curious, has anyone tried keeping theirs with a list price in a reseller and occasionally selling one and to pay for keeping their development dreams (unused ones) paid for? Does that strategy work? Realistically, will anyone come calling?
maguay 15y ago
I've got 3, and am trying to convince myself to not renew one of them. But you know, I just might use it someday, and...
ohgodthecat 15y ago
Probably about 20 with half on the do not renew list as things didn't work out.
ThereRNoDumbQs 15y ago
15 or so. About half are held in trust for friends and family. The rest are for me, two sole-prop businesses, and redirects to same.
tomatohs 15y ago
38+ Sometimes I do let names go, but I always end up buying more than I let free. All but 4 are .coms. $10 year is cheap for a centralized namespace.
GFischer 15y ago
Six: * my full name (couldn't get fischer.com as it's a world-famous company :) ) * 3 side project / startup attempts * 1 nonprofit attempt * 1 hopeful startup attempt PD: how do you format lists on HN? (a link to post formatting would be helpful)
ereckers 15y ago
36 and I could probably cut that by a 1/3 and not notice. Well, I'd notice an extra $120.00 bucks in my pocket each year.
stfu 15y ago
a bit over 100, most are just "collectors items" without any projects etc.

5 points by tiernano 15y ago

I lost count at about 65 domains registered to myself, and i am wondering am i "odd" having 65 domains registered to me, and not a company? How many do you have?

larrys 15y ago

Actually, thousands. For people/companies active in domains there are those with hundreds of thousands registered. Buydomains.com has close to a million domains registered. For our company name, we have 108 variations (just checked) which includes typos as well as tacking "www" on to the name and "sucks" and "inc" as only a few examples (the majority are typos though) 65 domains is not odd at all.

tiernano 15y ago
but thats for a company name... i am talking for personal stuff? i have my name as a .com, .net and .ie (being irish). I have projects i started years ago and registered domains for. so, im just wondering about domains registered for personal use?
- larrys 15y ago
  That changes my thoughts. If you are not buying names to try and resell but only registering because of ideas that you have I would say 65 is a high number. Simply because you couldn't possibly develop that many ideas. (One of the problem with owning many good names by the way is not knowing which one to focus on. If you only own 2 good names you can't stray to far.)

thehodge 15y ago

108 and I've cut down a lot this past year

gwillen 15y ago

I have 7: The vanity domain I use for all my email, a domain for hosting puzzlehunts, a .name domain I've done nothing with, a domain with a vaguely puzzley name I am saving for some future use that will never happen, and four unused domains corresponding to sites that sounded like they'd be cool to make at one point or another, of various levels of silliness.

ChrisNorstrom 15y ago

Oh Jeez... 42, all unique. Somehow I plan to use them all at some point in time. I used to have around 60 but I got rid of some over time. It's a bad habit we all have. We get an idea, find a domain name for it, find out it's already taken, we find the person's WHO.IS info, call them up and ask them if we can buy it from them, they say "no I have plans for it", we call em a "domain squatting asshole", then a few weeks later, we get another idea, find available domain names, register them, and sit on them for years and years (preventing others from using them), then when someone calls us asking to buy one of our domains we tell them the same thing that one "domain squatting asshole" told us. "We have plans for it." I can't tell you how many times I've tried to contact people to buy their un-used domain only to have them tell me that they're "very close to launching". A few years later I check back and guess what, it's the same "coming soon" splash screen from last time. Every few years I recheck domains that I wanted, just to see if the person gave up on them. Sometimes they do. That's how I grabbed up vgost.com (video game original sound tracks). I notice more expensive TLDs like .vg .tv and other don't have this problem. So deep down inside I kind of wish the base price for .coms would increase to $50/year. A LOT of good domains would open up then. Guys like us can't afford to keep them all. Naaa, Actually I've been really good about selling my domains. Just sold one a month ago for $500 on the first call.

mapster 15y ago
1st step is admitting you have a problem. congratulations! I have 6. Grabbed 2 over the holidays. $10 is a small price to pay for a quick thrill.

tomflack 15y ago

Two.

ericb 15y ago

I have about 6 but I've cut back to avoid dead weight. I'm curious, has anyone tried keeping theirs with a list price in a reseller and occasionally selling one and to pay for keeping their development dreams (unused ones) paid for? Does that strategy work? Realistically, will anyone come calling?

maguay 15y ago

I've got 3, and am trying to convince myself to not renew one of them. But you know, I just might use it someday, and...

ohgodthecat 15y ago

Probably about 20 with half on the do not renew list as things didn't work out.

ThereRNoDumbQs 15y ago

15 or so. About half are held in trust for friends and family. The rest are for me, two sole-prop businesses, and redirects to same.

tomatohs 15y ago

38+ Sometimes I do let names go, but I always end up buying more than I let free. All but 4 are .coms. $10 year is cheap for a centralized namespace.

GFischer 15y ago

Six: * my full name (couldn't get fischer.com as it's a world-famous company :) ) * 3 side project / startup attempts * 1 nonprofit attempt * 1 hopeful startup attempt PD: how do you format lists on HN? (a link to post formatting would be helpful)

ereckers 15y ago

36 and I could probably cut that by a 1/3 and not notice. Well, I'd notice an extra $120.00 bucks in my pocket each year.

stfu 15y ago

a bit over 100, most are just "collectors items" without any projects etc.