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Idea: Domain name exchange... trade your unused domains for other ones that might be of more value to you. Like baseball cards... but for domain names Somebody

Idea: Domain name exchange... trade your unused domains for other ones that might be of more value to you. Like baseball cards... but for domain names Somebody go develop it now.

noinput 14y ago
truth be told thats the exact reason I held on to most of these, but with the birth of my second daughter and moving to the bay area for me it was a case of priorities. I envisioned a mobile app with some kind of a simple barter system. I'd love to be part of a project working on it and can share some ideas I had sketched out.
kdude63 14y ago
This. This is a brilliant idea.
mattwdelong 14y ago
How could someone monetize this?
- xutopia 14y ago
  5$ a pop?
- abstractbill 14y ago
  There are plenty of other services you can easily sell/advertise to an audience of people who are swapping domain names.
- mladenkovacevic 14y ago
  Haven't given it much thought but here are a couple of ideas: 1) Users pay to list their domains. Pro: Guaranteed revenue from every user Con: Low motivation for user to pay up as there's no guarantee for reward 2) List up to 20 domains for free anything over that falls into a tiered annual payment plan Pro: same as 1 but better because of larger free user base who might be more likely to convert to a paying user Con: Could a user just keep rotating hundreds of domains through their free account? (imposing a limit on how many times a user can list and de-list domains would prevent this) 3) Users pay a flat fee only when a successful trade is made Pro: more motivation for users to pay up as the reward is imminent. Also both users can split the fee making it more affordable for each of them Con: Revenue is conditional on successful trades. Could the users use the service to simply list their domains then use outside channels to complete the actual trade/transaction? 4) User pays a fee when they want to take a domain they received through trading off of the trading block. This would require the site to actually assume ownership of all domains being traded then hold them hostage for a small fee when a trader wants to take possession of them (or else they are still up for trade/in limbo) 5) Maybe the site handles trades as well as cash purchases. Trades are free.. purchases incur a 2% fee. 6) Ads for other internet services. Perhaps the domains could be contextually paired with the ads so that if a user is searching for mma-website.com he/she sees ads for mma training equipment and facilities.
  - mtrimpe 14y ago
    7) Make the users redirect the domain to you and put a nice notice on it stating that the name is available for trade / swap / a worthy purpose and place some AdWords on it. You can actually sell it as a value-add and, from what I understand from professional domain squatters / traders, there's a surprisingly decent amount of money in it. The amount of link juice you could give the main domain probably also isn't insignificant...
rk0567 14y ago
What do you think about My MVP : http://domainexchanger.net/ http://domainexchanger.net/ By the way, Thank You :)
- mladenkovacevic 14y ago
  Hey that was quick! Good job. It seems like there is at least some sort of interest so keep hacking away. Couple of suggestions for future improvements: - Put the recently listed domains right on the main page (maybe below the blue instruction box) - Instead of allowing users to contact the domain name owners via e-mail, make them flag the domains they are interested in and expressing that interest to the domain owner through the site itself. The owner then gets a notice about a user who wants to trade, and is given the ability to see which domains the other party has for trade. Then they can go through the same process of flagging a domain they might be interested in trading, or cancelling the trade if they don't see anything of interest to them. That could be the start of a basic bartering engine. Great start though!
  - rk0567 14y ago
    Thank You for the great suggestion. I'm working on it :)

Idea: Domain name exchange... trade your unused domains for other ones that might be of more value to you. Like baseball cards... but for domain names Somebody go develop it now.

noinput 14y ago

truth be told thats the exact reason I held on to most of these, but with the birth of my second daughter and moving to the bay area for me it was a case of priorities. I envisioned a mobile app with some kind of a simple barter system. I'd love to be part of a project working on it and can share some ideas I had sketched out.

kdude63 14y ago

This. This is a brilliant idea.

mattwdelong 14y ago

How could someone monetize this?

xutopia 14y ago
5$ a pop?
abstractbill 14y ago
There are plenty of other services you can easily sell/advertise to an audience of people who are swapping domain names.
mladenkovacevic 14y ago
Haven't given it much thought but here are a couple of ideas: 1) Users pay to list their domains. Pro: Guaranteed revenue from every user Con: Low motivation for user to pay up as there's no guarantee for reward 2) List up to 20 domains for free anything over that falls into a tiered annual payment plan Pro: same as 1 but better because of larger free user base who might be more likely to convert to a paying user Con: Could a user just keep rotating hundreds of domains through their free account? (imposing a limit on how many times a user can list and de-list domains would prevent this) 3) Users pay a flat fee only when a successful trade is made Pro: more motivation for users to pay up as the reward is imminent. Also both users can split the fee making it more affordable for each of them Con: Revenue is conditional on successful trades. Could the users use the service to simply list their domains then use outside channels to complete the actual trade/transaction? 4) User pays a fee when they want to take a domain they received through trading off of the trading block. This would require the site to actually assume ownership of all domains being traded then hold them hostage for a small fee when a trader wants to take possession of them (or else they are still up for trade/in limbo) 5) Maybe the site handles trades as well as cash purchases. Trades are free.. purchases incur a 2% fee. 6) Ads for other internet services. Perhaps the domains could be contextually paired with the ads so that if a user is searching for mma-website.com he/she sees ads for mma training equipment and facilities.
- mtrimpe 14y ago
  7) Make the users redirect the domain to you and put a nice notice on it stating that the name is available for trade / swap / a worthy purpose and place some AdWords on it. You can actually sell it as a value-add and, from what I understand from professional domain squatters / traders, there's a surprisingly decent amount of money in it. The amount of link juice you could give the main domain probably also isn't insignificant...

rk0567 14y ago

What do you think about My MVP : http://domainexchanger.net/ http://domainexchanger.net/ By the way, Thank You :)

mladenkovacevic 14y ago
Hey that was quick! Good job. It seems like there is at least some sort of interest so keep hacking away. Couple of suggestions for future improvements: - Put the recently listed domains right on the main page (maybe below the blue instruction box) - Instead of allowing users to contact the domain name owners via e-mail, make them flag the domains they are interested in and expressing that interest to the domain owner through the site itself. The owner then gets a notice about a user who wants to trade, and is given the ability to see which domains the other party has for trade. Then they can go through the same process of flagging a domain they might be interested in trading, or cancelling the trade if they don't see anything of interest to them. That could be the start of a basic bartering engine. Great start though!
- rk0567 14y ago
  Thank You for the great suggestion. I'm working on it :)