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Namebox - sell your unwanted or unused domains
- billpg 13y ago$24,999.00 for freepopemail.com? Somehow I can't see a business based around free mail from the Pope ever earning that much revenue.
- whacker 13y agofree-pop-email.com in case you were being facetious.
- thejosh 13y agoNext you're going to tell me expertsexchange.com isn't about gender realignment.
- hmottestad 13y agoOnce they linked me to penisland.net
- solistice 13y agoTheir pen selection really lacks something. It's sorely missing in high end pens.
- manojlds 13y agoFrom what I understand facetious to mean, should you be saying "in case you weren't being facetious" ?
- bsullivan01 13y agostill, at $25K??? I guess people reserve to price their own stuff, but it seems delusional to me.
- mrmagooey 13y agoIsn't the ass going to fall out of this market once ICANN starts issuing an increasing number of TLDs? Seems like "sell" would be the dominant intent amongst squatters
- dsl 13y agoNothing really changed when .info, .biz, .pro, .xxx, etc. hit the market. There are trillions of dollars in marketing behind .com, and we will likely see no change in the standard user mentality (type brandname.com) for generations.
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- madoublet 13y agoLets hope. In my opinion, it seems crazy to me how hard it is to get a good .com and how few are actually being used.
- goatsecx 13y agoBeing able to sort/search by the price domain sellers have set is not terribly useful. There are too many people out there who think their reg price only domain is worth $1 million.
- hackerboos 13y ago>There are too many people out there who think their reg price only domain is worth $1 million. That's a problem in every domain market-place. People soon learn that unique != priceless.
- orik 13y agoA lot of these seem super overpriced. Not that that's a fault in the platform. I hope people don't squat on domains to try to sell them on this.
- jhome 13y agoI wouldn't hold out much hope.
- ramykhuffash 13y agoI think a lot of people like me buy domains planning to do something with them. Eventually we realize that time is limited, but we still hang onto the hope of eventually finding the time to do something with the domains. I'm guessing they are overpriced because people don't actually want to sell their domains, but they would happily do so if someone was to offer a good chunk of cash for them. That's my logic anyway. I never bought any domains with plans to sell them, but this site was so easy to use, I threw them up there and put big prices on them, just in case :-)
- reustle 13y agoThere are already plenty of services for domain squatters out there.
- abcd_f 13y agoDoes this offer an escrow service for transferring domain ownership? Being able to list and browse available domains is nice, bootstrapping negotiations is nice too, but the purchase closing is the most tricky part and the ownership transfer via a third party is an absolute must. GoDaddy offers a service like this and it costs few hundred $ per transfer.
- reustle 13y agoWhy not just use escrow? https://www.escrow.com/services/domain-and-website-escrow.aspx https://www.escrow.com/services/domain-and-website-escrow.as...
- benatkin 13y agoIt's "escrow.com", not "escrow". They try to do a funky thing with their logo to separate the escrow part of it from .com, but they aren't brash enough to leave off the suffix. If they did, I don't think it would fly. I searched for "escrow.com" reviews and found some negative ones. So there's one reason why someone might not use it. Another reason would be that as a general escrow service they may not understand the domain escrow process as well as a company that only does DNS escrow.
- opendomain 13y agoI have used escrow.com several times (to buy domains - I have never sold one, so I do not know the other side) - they understand domains very well. Very small fee and they only transfer the money when the domain is transferred. Highly recommend them.
- dsl 13y agoEscrow.com has been the gold standard in the domain industry for years. I've personally seen hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales take place with them with no problems,
- geargrinder 13y agoescrow.com specializes in domain transfers. I have used it several times and found the process easy, transparent and secure.
- colept 13y agoI think it would be valuable to see other potential bids, in case you wish to "raise your maximum" and discourage unnecessary competitive pricing. Browsing a list of domains that are overpriced would be very inconvenient after the first page.
- mapleoin 13y agoDomain squatting made easy?
- rll 13y agoYeah, that was my reaction as well. Why legitimize and enable domain squatting?
- jmathai 13y agoI don't think this makes squatting any easier than the existing tools to sell domains. I'm giving the creator the benefit of the doubt and assume they did this because, like me, they probably have tens of domains they don't plan on ever using.
- lsc 13y ago>because, like me, they probably have tens of domains they don't plan on ever using. So, you mean, small-scale squatters are okay; large-scale squatters are not?
- nly 13y agoIt's not squatting. Squatting is registering a domain for its own sake. Sometimes you register domains for projects and then those projects never get off the ground. I have a dozen domains (I defensively registered all the top TLDs) expiring in 4 days for just that reason.
- 67726e 13y agoSquatting is squatting is squatting. You may have registered with the intent to use it but now that you are not using it you think you deserve money for the ability to rent it?
- jtheory 13y agoI disagree; I have a handful of domains without active sites on them as well, for projects that I still want to do but haven't gotten to yet. I've had experiences in the past of letting a domain expire and then being "ready" to use it a few years down the line. Of course, it was invariably squatted, and had been since I'd let it go, and would cost more than I was able to justify paying to get it back. On the other hand, I actually had a working project running on wishmash.com that wasn't getting enough traffic to make it worthwhile, so I sold the domain when I got a reasonable offer. If I hadn't sold it, though, would that have have been "squatting is squatting is squatting" as well? I could put up forums and/or tiny sites on all domains I have -- then it wouldn't be squatting either? There's a whole range of possible levels of domain usage. I don't have any domain that I haven't spend at least a few hours researching the space & competitors, documenting implementation (and sometimes starting it), and so on. I'm sure I won't actually build some of these projects. But I don't know which. Of course from the outside this can look the same as a simple squatter hoping for a big payout; but that doesn't mean it is the same.
- matrixer 13y ago1.I can not add any domain now. 2.There is a bug. when I clicked the blank area of the box "You haven't added any domains yet. Add one.", an "edit domain" pop up dialog came out ...
- Jhsto 13y agoMillion dollars for unwanted domain? This could work so much better if you could only ask below the registration price.
- slig 13y agoI liked it. Or if the domain is N years old, the max price should be (N + 1) * registration price. Also a simple DNS that I could point the domain to and it would serve a simple page stating the price and linking to namebox.io.
- olssonm 13y agoReally nice and well done. However, there are multiple services like this – it would be cool if there would be a cap on how much you demand for a domain, like $200 or something. That way this really would be the place to load of domains and give them to someone who might have more use of them than me. Those complaining that this makes squatting easy – not true. I myself have collected 30-40 domains over the years for projects that I want/will/should build – but never have built... I keep renewing the domains "just in case", but if I could list them for $50 to $200 each and know that someone else will use them for a good purpose, I would.
- pearjuice 13y agoI think the "Any amount" listing is a bit vague. You should make it required to have at least a minimum amount. For example, video.io sells for "Any amount" but I doubt that can be taken literally.
- stfu 13y agoThere are already very successful domain trading platforms around (http://www.sedo.com http://www.sedo.com). I can't really figure out what namebox's unique value proposition is.
- neilkelty 13y agoProfile Picture next to the domain name?
- dsl 13y agoTwitter integration! Seriously the reason I prefer Sedo and BuyDomains is that I don't have to deal directly with or have my personal info given out to buyers. I used to have my email address listed on some domains I had for sale, and after rejecting a ridiculously low offer ($40 for a 3 letter .com) had some 14 year old kid and all his buddies emailing me and calling me at all hours to try and harass me into accepting it.
- dangelov 13y agoSeems pretty simple to use. I added a few domains to see how it goes > http://namebox.io/dangelov http://namebox.io/dangelov
- array 13y agoThe simplicity of this service and the free listing model could make it a real contender as a Flippa.com alternative. As others have already commented, there is still a lot of room for improvement (payment methods, improved bidding system, etc), but I could definitely see this in future iterations of the service if it were to gain enough traction. As an immediate suggestion to the developer, it'd be nice if the registration, login, and dashboard areas were secured (HTTPS). Everything appears to be transmitted over HTTP at the moment. In any case, kudos on the launch - this could definitely shape up to be a pretty solid service.
- stevewillows 13y agoOf everything listed (mine included), task.io is clearly one of the better domains posted. I don't doubt that everyone has a story behind their ideas, but this was one of the few with a clear purpose.
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- imwhimsical 13y agoPut hackerspot.org up there. Lets see how this works :)
- stevewillows 13y agoThe ideal resource for hackers with glaucoma!
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- aitoehigie 13y agoI have put up hacki.ng. I noticed that I have started getting dud purchase requests from buyers. I.e. the email address gotten from the purchase mail from namebox.io is false I.e. it doesn't exist. What does the owner of this service intend doing to curb this?
- dersebbi 13y agoYou could refine the search, if a search for e.g. coin would also show results containing *co.in. I am thinking of something like https://domai.nr/ https://domai.nr/ Does this sound feasible?
- dsirijus 13y agoFew suggestions. Make "Browse domains" more prominent, not just in the footer. Have domains under that somehow ranked. I'd suggest having price listed on click or on visit, so you can grab on that data. Remove "any amount" - that's psychology 101. (plug & rant pending) I'm firmly believing synthmeat.com will some day be worth much - http://namebox.io/dsirijus http://namebox.io/dsirijus - so I'm squatting. Why is there a negative sentiment about that? It's an investment, like any other.
- josephwachira 13y agoSeems pretty simple to use. Since I have a couple unused domains I decided to list them here for any suitable amount - http://namebox.io/chaz http://namebox.io/chaz
- eksith 13y ago$200 for "urrl.us" ? I wonder how much sh2.us would fetch ( currently hosting my ramblings http://www.sh2.us http://www.sh2.us ) While I like the idea of a simpler domain sales option (since GoDaddy is a spammy nightmare) at present, I think what would really help would be a domain valuation service. It's pretty hard to put an amount on something when you're not sure how much it would really fetch on the market.
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- jaredstenquist 13y agoI tried adding one of my domains (read.io), but having to create DNS records for every domain I own is a huge pain. I'm building a similar service now, which automates everything through WHOIS and DNS resolution. The feedback on this post has actually been really helpful.
- ionwake 13y agoThe domains I added seem to be on my profile but have been removed from the browsing list. Any idea why?
- Splendor 13y agoBeing able to sort by URL length would be nice.
- gscott 13y agoPutting in a plug for the domains i have for sale. I have to renew a bunch today could use to sell one or two http://namebox.io/gscott http://namebox.io/gscott
- EGF 13y agoThis is great and hopefully opens up domain listing from folks here on HN. Demand for domains is only increasing, and as someone that handles private buying/selling for startups I see more and more of this need.
- apa-sl 13y agoPlease allow people to login using their alias OR email address! I have alias only login :-)
- apa-sl 13y agoI cannot verify my domain fashioner.com - TXT record was successfully added to DNS 18 hours ago, I've checked it by char by char using some outside DNS records viewer.