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Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
While thinking of ever more imaginative ways to punish domain squatters following yet another abandoned hunt for a domain-cum-product name, I finally became aware of the irony that I am sitting on a few decent domain names that I'm not using.
Then, I wondered, if one of the parked domains I've come across recently is held just by someone like me, not maliciously or out for profit, but just as a by-product of a non-startup startup, an abandoned weekend hackery project or whatever really.
So, rather than set up www.domainnameswap.com (partly because the name is parked ;o) ), how about a thread where we have a rummage down the back of the sofa and throw in any parked domains we'd be willing to give/swap away. If there's a match up, the relevant poster is contactable via their HN profile.
[Note: this idea may tank, but it's got to be worth a try. My fingers are being worn shorter with each fruitless domain search]
- acgourley 17y agomeetyu.com tastycomics.com scenapse.com flipmojo.com
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- dthakur 17y agohogornot.com
- run4yourlives 17y agoWhy are you sitting on that? That website would take about 15 hours to build and will most likely earn you more than a few bucks for doing nothing.
- dthakur 17y agoHmm -- all right, I'm on it.
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- EGF 17y agoany suggestions on the best scripts to set something like this up? I have a similar "ornot" site that I would love to get off the ground but not sure which platform to choose
- run4yourlives 17y agoScripts? It's a database table with images with scores that are randomly accessed and presented to the user. When the user clicks on a photo, + to score, and reload the page with new photos. All the rest is just candy, really. Point being either it is trival to create this yourself, or you could google it. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hot+or+not+scripts http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hot+or+not+scripts
- jimmyjim 17y agoIn the face of the current economic conditions (i.e., US is at a terrible consuming/producing imbalance, and, well.. the only future in light of this is grim), these quick-buck strategies that seem to appeal only to the lowest common denominator start to seem alluring, indeed, only for the quick bucks. Wouldn't it be a better idea to allocate your time and resources elsewhere? Perhaps at something that may prove to be fruitful in the long term?
- dthakur 17y agoIt's a good skills refresher for someone like me who hasn't done any web programming for a few years.
- run4yourlives 17y agoWell no, I don't think it's worth spending all that much time on either. But if you could do it in a weekend, and bring in a few thousand dollars a year because of it, so be it.
- dave_au 17y agoI assumed it was an identify-the-cute-pig-picture captcha service.
- dthakur 17y agoIf someone finds their way back to this thread, I did end up writing the site. Granted it took me a more than the 15 hours (more like a part-time week) but the result is up: http://hogornot.com http://hogornot.com Is was good to pick up django, jquery etc. It has little content right now but anyway -- it's up!
- karanbhangui 17y agoHah, nice job :) Keep us updated on the ad revenue numbers :P
- ca98am79 17y agoI have coldornot.com - was thinking of doing a parody of hotornot.com, but haven't had the time.
- twism 17y agonerdsdoitrarely.com
- stevejalim 17y agoI'll go first, hoping that karma is more than an int next to my name: lancelist.com / lancelist.net / lancelist.co.uk bookafreelance.com / bookafreelance.co.uk flatplan.net zeditorial.com / zeditorial.co.uk
- synnik 17y agoGood idea. Although I've also had luck just emailing the contact for a domain, and finding they were willing to give it up. Worst case scenario is some squatter overvalues it and won't sell for a reasonable price. But it is always worth asking. I even had one person randomly email me offering $500 for one of my domains. I didn't reply right away, and two hours later, he upped the offer to $1000. I had the cash in hand by the end of the day. Easiest money ever.
- stevejalim 17y agoYeah, I bought lancelist.com from a very nice vendor after approaching him out of the blue. Shame I never got to use it. Shakes fist at UK employment laws (but that's a different story)
- jwesley 17y agoYea, I've had the same thing happen to me with a name that I posted on Sedo :) For what it's worth, owning a domain and not developing it is not "domain squatting" which is defined by law as "registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting There is nothing wrong with owning a domain and not developing it. It's the same as making a speculative investment, just like in real estate or any other asset. We all wish we were there in 1990 to scoop up the best names, but just because we weren't doesn't make the smart people who did unethical.
- stevejalim 17y agoYes, you're right. It's just a bit frustrating as we approach a time when it seems like there'll be nowt left to register unless we cough up six figures for a .mycompany TLD Clearly, I'm not in the my most forgiving of moods, tho
- graemep 17y agoI do not think real estate, or other investments are a good example. They require paying market value, which means that only those who can genuinely find mis-pricing can make a consistent profit, and by doing that they improve market efficiency. Getting a domain through registrations does not do this, because it requires only registration not payment. For a better analogy, compare how easy it is with the requirements of the (US) <a href="http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/homestead-act/>Homestead http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/homestead-act/>... Act of 1863</a>. It required improving the land over a five year period and imposed a size limit. It is easy to imagine what would have happened without that requirement: a few people would have made vast claims, far beyond what they could develop.
- knightinblue 17y agowhy not try portmanteus like tradomains.com? (trade + domains) its available EDIT: I could have bought it, but I figured steve could use it, so what say everyone give it at least an hour for steve to buy it before someone snaps it up?
- stevejalim 17y agoI was being a bit tongue in cheek re registering domainnameswap.com. But as for the domain/name I do need, I've been trying all kinds of mashing together, while being constrained by the agreed critera (number of syllables, etc). No joy. Yet. [EDIT: thanks for the thought, tho, knightinblue]
- there 17y ago8t.org lowerca.se
- ivankirigin 17y agoYou should sell the second one to http://lowercasellc.com/ http://lowercasellc.com/ - which is Chris Sacca's new firm.
- jncraton 17y agoHow long have you been holding on to that first one?
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- mikecuesta 17y agoawesomeopossum.com
- sant0sk1 17y agothat is awesome. For sale?
- forgotmypasswd 17y agoi bet people would forget that middle o all the time.
- htsh 17y agoobamanutpunch.com poofilter.com lawgician.com
- oldgregg 17y agoi would love to hear your monetization strategy. :)
- htsh 17y agomostly shits and giggles. the combinations of domains <$10 & alcohol has led to unintentional squatting of some sort for me the better part of 10 years.. lawgician was going to be a digg/reddit type of thing for legal news -- i don't think its gonna happen soon as doing this right would involve more time than I can give right now. poofilter originally was intended to filter political news and somehow assess the bias level of the source from left to right, blue to red. someone else did this recently but I forget the name. obamanutpunch was going to be a simple lolcat-type site of photoshopped photos of president obama punching people in the nuts (see chuck norris here http://www.flickr.com/photos/hitesh/3254005822/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/hitesh/3254005822/). Later, I found out that there were actually 2 definitions in urban dictionary for the term (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Obama%20Nut%20Punch http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Obama%20Nut%2...)
- adrianwaj 17y agoYou could have an automated site extracting whitehouse photos from here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse and allow users to customize. edit: "The photograph may not be manipulated in any way or used in materials, advertisements, products, or promotions that in any way suggest approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House." maybe not.
- randallsquared 17y agoThat's what hosting in The Netherlands is for.
- eli 17y agogovevents.org mobpoint.com & mobpt.com
- karanbhangui 17y agoHey, I'd be interested in both of these for a little project of mine. Please email me at karan.bhangui@gmail.com if you're interested in selling :)
- kyro 17y agogroopvine.com phreshy.com
- jonursenbach 17y agobaddeveloper.org coderepo.net manphp.com tweetbkp.com - was going to be a twitter backup mechanism, but then i started working with the twitter api and quickly gave up that idea.
- jwb119 17y agofalsifi.com mktpost.com lidly.com ride-radar.com
- Brushfire 17y agoI know what you mean. I have dozens and dozens of these names, all really good names that I like for startup or related projects. I dont want to give them up becuase, like you, I HATE trying to find new names. I also hate domain squatters, so they arent filled with BS Ad's either, just a brief message saying "this was for a project I was or will be working on... if you are interested, let me know. My list is too long to post, but you can check it out at http://btlventures.com/domains/ http://btlventures.com/domains/ . I'm happy to lease/loan these domains to someone on the cheap who wants to use them for a good project.
- mrtron 17y agoI have to ask what thegreatmustachechallenge was.
- Brushfire 17y agoWe were going to grow mustaches and have people bet on who would keep them the longest in public (between my friends its not very sociable to have a stash). All the proceeds were going to go to some charity. I might still do it someday...
- imp 17y agoquicklibs.com datafeel.com
- k0mplex 17y agoadstreet.net alwayscontact.com ballerscholar.com bccmark.com betterword.net cardcurrent.com mbawall.com picturethenews.com/.net/.org recofriend.com
- lleger 17y agoI'd be interested in ballerscholar.com if it's available.
- forgotmypasswd 17y agobetterword.com, was that going to be a thesaurus site, or a word-fight site?
- k0mplex 17y agoajax thesaurus!
- huwshimi 17y agoHi, I may be interested in recofriend.com I have emailed the address in the whois, but let me know if you don't get it.
- k0mplex 17y agoI didn't get it. What's your email address? I will send you a note.
- karanbhangui 17y agowould you be willing to sell adstreet.net? My email is karan.bhangui@gmail.com if you want to shoot me a message :P
- baseonmars 17y agowhat3va.co.uk (i don't know what i was thinking, but someone might have a use).
- Keyframe 17y agodcrowd.com - I had the idea to make a portal type of site for D programming language, maybe even expand it from the start to Development Crowd - hence d crowd being ambiguous. I even made a logo that I am satisfied with http://www.dcrowd.com/t_logo/dcrowd_logo_table.png http://www.dcrowd.com/t_logo/dcrowd_logo_table.png hmm maybe I'll make it, who knows. I have another project going on right now that takes a lot of time, so maybe after that.
- abrown28 17y agoI have xpcom.org I can't remember what I was going to do with it.
- nopassrecover 17y agoI've seen some decent ones come up on pool.com actually. For instance "digitalclassroom.com" was listed recently (no idea how much, would have looked more if I wasn't concerned with blackboard suing me if I used it).
- scumola 17y ago0spy.com american-idol-online.com ( has gone through multiple ideas, but none have taken ) cheaptightwad.com ( was a product sales site based on the pronto.com api ) everythingmicrosoft.com gconq.com ( was going to be an online game ) hddvdtech.com ( ha ha - gonna let that one expire. ) hotwaterinteractive.com ( meant for steam game development ) imvote.com ( never did anything with it ) rssgoogle.com txt2sms.com wiidynamics.com wiiphysics.com I have more, but they have some content on them or are partially active. These are basically my abandoned idea websites. :)
- adrianwaj 17y agob a c k s c a m . c o m
- adrianwaj 17y agomy idea was for plugin that redirects ecommerce and affiliate-able purchase/product web page links through a hub-site and inserts the site's affiliate id, tracks any original affiliate for record-keeping, collects a commission through having service accounts at each affiliate site (amazon, ebay, etc) and pays the USER a kick-back for their purchase with the site via collecting the commission on their behalf. Realized they'd be many hurdles and technicalities, but could make a lot of money, perhaps.
- uggedal 17y agoredflavor.com
- flooha 17y agoforeverlist.com nuncatarde.com I have plans for both domains, but they're on the back-burner.
- ivankirigin 17y agoseedsea.com millipaid.com
- agotterer 17y agomixit.fm vidcharts.com kirbygamereview.com newsrotica.com
- jonursenbach 17y agoHow much for mixit.fm?
- sandis 17y agotweetby.com mabify.com nakedfile.com stormset.com
- yummyfajitas 17y agoflagsfororphans.com/org I'll happily give it away to anyone who wants to use it for a transparent government initiative. (For those who don't get the reference, see the "Krusty for Congress" simpsons episode.)
- soult 17y agoHere's the Wikipedia article for that episode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Spritz_Goes_to_Washington http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Spritz_Goes_to_Washington
- poppysan 17y agoHeres mine... atomurl.com kidamigo.com salonsidekick.com mamascuisine.com mydaycarecam.com 360faith.com 3layouts.com addonator.com loftwire.com mobilemixtour.com mytaintedlove.com theadviceshow.com widgeweb.com I want to finish all of my ideas, but I don't have the time :(
- Alex3917 17y agoeskimokissing.com
- jpbutler 17y agoadvertiserblogs.com daddybloggers.com docfu.com friendlywebhelp.com grawgo.com greendevelopmentblog.com informationoperatingsystem.com kill5minutes.com localsearchzone.com misternewhomeowner.com msnewhomeowner.com nooler.com outinpaperback.com papercompanion.com serendipityrow.com thenewsfindsyou.com thewebworksforyou.com workingblogs.com
- jpbutler 17y agoI have this horrible habit of grabbing domains for every idea I think of for longer than two minutes. It adds up after a while.
- adrianwaj 17y agoWhat did you have in mind for serendipityrow.com? Good band name, after Led Zeppelin.
- jpbutler 17y agoIt was going to be an offshoot of my main product (Serendeputy, a personalized news application currently in private beta). Serendepity Row was going to be an extract of interesting, erudite articles that surfaced from the aggregate usage of the site. I'd put out two or three posts a day highlighting really interesting pieces. I was going to model it somewhat on Arts & Letters Daily -- http://www.aldaily.com/ http://www.aldaily.com/ Kill5Minutes was going to be the same idea, but for more low-brow stuff.
- adrianwaj 17y agoSpotplex when it was around tracked and displayed articles by popularity. Blogs and sites had a SP javascript code that sent back page views.
- mdolon 17y agoWould you consider trading/selling kill5minutes.com?
- thejefe711 17y agocleverhub.com crowdhub.com twijj.com
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- brianlash 17y agopixaruniversity.com pittsburghfounders.com snappyresume.com careersauce.com colonytech.com allthebigstuff.com findoozle.com getfounding.com fleetheshame.com newmediamonthly.com webkeynote.com thetippingblog.com
- rokhayakebe 17y agoWould you give away/sell snappyresume?
- brianlash 17y agoSure. I'd sell or negotiate a fair trade. Shoot me an email: brianklash at gmail dot com
- karanbhangui 17y agoWould you be willing to sell off findoozle.com? If so, please email me at karan.bhangui@gmail.com :) Thanks
- icey 17y agobets-for.us bets4.us betsfor.us gambool.net kungfugrep.com linktacular.com linktacular.net phoenixfringe.com sublunaris.com tripgather.com tripgather.net
- BonsaiKitt3n 17y agoomgdrama.com omgsux.com interwebr.com resistr.com schnapr.com basecost.com folkhunt.com some are developed a little some have ideas.
- wmiller 17y agosniggr.com dontgodigital.com
- cmalpeli 17y agomvent.com backtours.com STARALIKE.COM fourpawsclub.com credit-planet.com ereader-review.com netbookreviewsonline.com etc...
- timdorr 17y agobowbefore.us blastcapacity.org write2left.com themeupdate.com I'm letting them all expire this year at some point.
- stevejohnson 17y agobowbefore.us sounds really appealing to me, but I'll need to come up with a concept before I offer to take it off your hands.
- run4yourlives 17y agoa 4chan competitor, obviously.
- brm 17y agograwked.com net org smartisan.com goodfromgoods.com creatorial(s).com brokerageview.com finefreight.com letsbreakit.com
- csbartus 17y agoI had two domain names reserved for some projects nukanon.com extrophos.com and now they are available for free. I'll tell you their story if you register them :D currently I'm reserving only 'local' domain names which are mine forever. unused are nucumpar.ro gros.ro
- twoz 17y agocoredumpster.com onebigcatch.com matchisle.com
- ihartley 17y agoanimedubzone.com bitsboltsandvolts.com bitsboltsnvolts.com bitsboltsvolts.com cashnik.com deletetheinternet.com dunbarsdungeon.com finihd.com graphle.net graphle.org hotelfreehd.com maperate.com phinihd.com proclamate.com pussyandguns.com sandiegomarquee.com schrodingershotbox.com sdmarquee.com seekaview.com streamwhat.com
- htsh 17y ago"pussyandguns.com" -- photos of cats and guns?
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- stevejalim 17y agoso we'd be talking lolfrags? apologises
- bockris 17y agoI like sound of the 'bitsboltsandvolts' ones but don't have specific ideas to develop it.
- adrianwaj 17y agodeletetheinternet.com - that's fn' cool edit: maybe pop a message over to Iran
- petercooper 17y agoI'm sitting on tons, but I've given plenty away over the years too, so I don't think of myself as malicious. Nearly all are from project ideas I had but then never followed up on. ajaxday.com* amonad.com* cocoainside.com* detailedlook.com javascriptinside.com jotpack.com* jsinside.com pythonflow.com pythoninside.com railgrinder.com* railsteam.com (currently giving this away) railswebhosting.com rorhosting.com rubyonrailswebhosting.com richlanguage.com rollwall.com roted.org* rotes.org* rubyandhow.com rubypedia.com rubyweekly.com scalainside.com* spacepit.com* startupfreude.com* superyay.com* tipteam.com* topichub.com* I don't think I'd be willing to unconditionally give/swap away all of these, but I'd say for at least half I would (I've put stars next to those). For example, I consider the Rails Web hosting ones to have value - I just haven't bothered to do anything with them yet. Some of the others I am "squatting", in a sense, in order to prevent competitors infringing on my brand. Sorry for the formatting.. too lazy to fix it, but actually realized it doesn't look too bad as a horizontal list anyways..
- endlessvoid94 17y agoi'd be interested in obtaining topichub from you...
- petercooper 17y agoIt's yours. E-mail me at [my username]@[my username].co.uk and I'll sort out the auth code and unlock it for you.
- endlessvoid94 17y agoI tried emailing you but got a bounce. [petercooper]@[petercooper].co.uk, right? (obviously without braces, ha)
- tomerico 17y agoIt's funny he seemed to try so hard to avoid writing the email directly, and you did just that.
- randrews 17y agonewe.st boxed.in Open to selling them or trading them: randrews@geekfu.org
- endlessvoid94 17y agohookahhacking.com
- abyssknight 17y agoThere are a few I am sitting on for lack of motivation: meetthedress.com hackmyjob.com fragtweet.com / tweetfrag.com (Has an app on it, needs more work though.)
- jobenjo 17y agoNot sure we'd trade these, but here they are: quippo.com helpcloud.com
- ajaypopat 17y agograbkindle.com An affiliate experiment. I actually sold a Kindle and made $36!
- profgubler 17y agoexistornot.com beforeyouspit.com spitforhumanity.com
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- utefan001 17y agobottomcoder.com
- stevejalim 17y ago:)
- paulgb 17y agoGreat idea. I've had these since 2006 for some project ideas that quickly became obsolete. I didn't want to let them expire and fall into the hands of squatters, so I kept renewing them. I'm willing to give them up to a good home. gowiki.net swound.com thumbnote.com thumbwiki.com (edit: one gone, removed. the four above are still up for grabs. Will trade for a donation to EFF or Wikipedia)
- mariorz 17y agobuxomwenches.com
- tbeseda 17y agoishillarypresidentyet.com
- thorsview 17y agoFunny you should start this post because I have been on a mission to try to raise some cash for these domains just the last couple days: ListLocal.com CheapSwap.com WildOnCampus.com SaleMetrics.com
- schlichtm 17y agoKill30.com Freetvee.com iPhonization.com LaughYouLose.com IfMomAsks.com 140date.com 140me.com
- lleger 17y agoGreat idea Steve.
- jodrellblank 17y agogreatideasteve.com is available...
- thorax 17y agoHas anyone considered changing their parked domains to say: "This domain is free to anyone who will develop it into something. All that is required is that they feature a link to my other project/site %s for the first year."
- adrianwaj 17y agoOnce the deal was done, they could shaft you. The only thing you could do was keep ownership and grant technical administration over to the new domain user for a year. Would they want that?
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- stevejalim 17y agoWould they want that? Well, if I knew the domain holder personally, fine for them to keep the reins, but if I didn't, I prob wouldn't/couldn't take the getting-held-to-ransom risk if things took off. I don't have investors, but I bet people who do would say the same thing, only more emphatically
- Brushfire 17y agoI agree with you, but the amusing thing is that all of these problems could be solved with a simple contract. Lease with option to buy at set price, or guarantee to sell unless breached, etc. Its probably a 1 page contract, even. The real issue is trying to enforce it if someone defaults on that contract - it could get impossible/expensive if they are out of the country.
- bint 17y agohttp://bit.ly/kOEwx http://bit.ly/kOEwx
- adrianwaj 17y agoV good URL shortener domain for Google. edit: why remove gu.gl?
- zackattack 17y agogroupdraw.com halfmeet.com newofferz.com urlcomments.com
- fizx 17y agog.iraffe.com launchingthefuture.com mailmetext.com understands.me
- tialys 17y agoI've been holding on to 'isby.us' for a rainy day. Back when I bought it I had aspirations of a sort of hybrid Video/Audio/Blog news center of average people. I never really got far with it though, and now I'm not sure what to do with it.
- patf 17y agoyougottabeshittin.me digdiary.com and for when Firefox jumps the shark forgetfirefox.com
- icefox 17y ago:D Can you have it point to arora-browser.org?
- cmos 17y agopornrequest.com
- justinchen 17y agowould that be like cha cha where you ask the website to find you something in particular? ;)
- sundeep 17y agoletsdrive.us -> for a carpool solution neighbourly.org -> for a craigslist+maps mashup.
- dylanz 17y agoInterested in neighbourly.org: [dylans]at[gmail.com]
- jperras 17y agolifetagg.com evrware.com merberati.com nerderat.us yasurl.com I must confess that I registered all of these domains while intoxicated. [edit: spacing]
- sundeep 17y agoI'd be interested in lifetagg.com if you dont see a use for it anymore ... [sundeep@ymail.com]
- btwelch 17y agoblogwalking.com
- EGF 17y agoSearchBuzz.com
- antirez 17y agofaqbotic.com
- Jangus 17y agoblendify.com roundscore.com
- Jangus 17y agoOh yeah. Textada.com (Auto-reply business text messaging service - never started)
- rrival 17y agoHave 182 - dropped the list on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/m1742e685 http://pastebin.com/m1742e685 Hit me up if you're interested.
- mdolon 17y agoRenewing that many domain names must suck =(
- rrival 17y agothat's only about 1/2 of what I have, too ;)
- muddylemon 17y agogenodate.com Send in a DNA sample and we'll match you to a member most unlike yours.
- rrival 17y agoexactly. just like 23date. (23andme, etc)
- mdolon 17y agoaggregatedesign.com buyjives.com campusai.com djangobits.com everyday(desi|arab|latino).com gamefav.com gradschoolrejects.com instantgolfclap.com joblike.com linktard.com nfektus.com ngamr.com sofound.com startmyself.com startupyours.com Believe it or not, I had ideas for all of these domains. May resurrect a couple when I get some free time..
- forgotmypasswd 17y agoinstantgolfclap! do it now! then when you are done, go here http://instantgolfclap.com http://instantgolfclap.com
- mdolon 17y agoI wanted to but I couldn't find a decent golf clap audio clip and was too lazy to record one myself. http://sadtrombone.com/ http://sadtrombone.com/
- ComputerGuru 17y agotheconundrum.com
- tripngroove 17y agofuckaneers.com
- sil3ntmac 17y agoI've had good luck with godaddy's auctions. They have a good, powerful search (you can specify tld's and set a max length and blacklist characters), and their buy-it-now feature allows you to instantly separate inexpensive domains from domains owned by, er, less rational holders. For example, the auction for eventjunky.com is ending in 10 minutes, and the price is $10. not bad. I also saw asdense.com on there the other day for $5 buy it now... I thought that would be a domain squatter's dream, but decided to pass it up :P https://auctions.godaddy.com/trpHome.aspx?t=16 https://auctions.godaddy.com/trpHome.aspx?t=16
- christonog 17y agofortunecookienotes.com w-note.com addresstree.com & addresstree.net Would be will to trade for some of these.
- christonog 17y agoBleh, just read my comment from before. It's "would be _willing_ to trade." Love typos.
- andrewljohnson 17y agodarnnews.com, greathive.com, thegreathive.com
- johns 17y agoservingsizes.com - I'd like to sell it, but I'd give it away under the right circumstances. I always imagined being able to go to that site and compare the nutrition facts of consumer products.
- themetalface 17y agoWirefriend.com Designtheuniverse.com Pouqe.com Xanama.com Badbeatlounge.com / those of you who play poker will get this one...
- adrianwaj 17y agoXanama would make a good software code name.. longhorn etc
- ajb 17y agolinux-inside.com. I was looking round for a new computer to run linux on. There are lots of little companies that will sell you a computer with linux preinstalled, but they mainly have short product lines, so you have to check out loads of websites. With windows, there are companies which will put together the computer you want set it up for you. I thought it would be a good idea if there was one place where all the small linux companies could list their product lines so they would be easier to find. Then the experience of buying a computer for linux would be closer to buying one for windows. It became less urgent for me because I bought a computer :-) Anyone wants to execute on the idea, I'll give you the domain. Someone else has linuxinside.com, BTW.
- mutoxen 17y agomutoxen.com
- redorb 17y agoHere are my domains I would let go for any reasonable offer... AndyApp.cm AndyApps.com AndyDev.com AhayStack.com (think mahalo) AGoodProblem.com (like having too many sales, not enough inventory) FastRapid.com (dev company?) HelpStopJunkmail.com (info site) LogicRandom.com ( a little logic + random = genius?) MobRally.com - (mobile social networking) SEOdeft.com I saw some awesome domains listed here, good luck all finding their own little domain in the wild world.
- peterbraden 17y agoI have bringbacktheblinktag.com If anyone wants to mount a campaign to bring back the much maligned html tag then let me know!
- lacker 17y agoI was hoping for a pro-blink-tag essay that all blinked using javascript.
- yeabuddy 17y agocodeshout.com nerdi.us
- covercash 17y agofailfund.com/org/net corrupt.me
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- jfarmer 17y agoI was going to create a site that made fun of the fact that John McCain looked like Saul Tigh, so I have a bunch of domains like: saultigh2008, tigh2008, electsaul, etc.
- forgotmypasswd 17y agoI have "wow! A looks like B, haha" problem alot. Thankfully I dont ever buy domain names though.
- antiismist 17y agoidoh.net idoh.org andperse.com ballerinc.com openappled.com vimpressive.com wikkey.com They all have some idea for a site behind them, just haven't gotten around to it.
- herdrick 17y agoAre you crazy, man? You've got to keep idoh.org .
- antiismist 17y agoI'd consider giving it up / a trade for a worthy cause. I like having the trifecta, but what would I put there that I wouldn't put on idoh.com instead?
- odvious 17y agoisolobal.com manwench.com odvious.com twickster.com I had ideas for all, just hit me up if you want to hear any of it :)
- racerrick 17y agoOr use www.twitter.com/domaintrade. I'll set up a "bot" for it.
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- stevejalim 17y agoLet me know if you whip up something - it's a nice idea you've put forward
- odvious 17y agoIt appears there may actually be enough interest here if you did set up a site :)
- anigbrowl 17y agobuyitwhen.com I've had this idea that when you see things you don't want to pay new price for, you can look them up, enter the price you'd prefer to pay, and get a notification when a merchant hits that price point - best for technology and gadgets where the price tends to fall over a predictable curve. But I've been too lazy to build it out. I'm reconsidering after seeing the other day it gets 400 monthly uniques just for existing.
- tricky 17y agoYou should build that out! I've set up scrapers for my wife to help her stalk sweaters and shoes. she loves that, and i'm guessing there are a lot like her out there who'd use the service.
- dylanz 17y agoOoo... I actually started something "just" like this, and this domain name is perfect. Would you part with it?
- dylanz 17y agoI'm at [dylans]at[gmail.com]
- ScottWhigham 17y agoI have tons of video-related and training related domains. If anyone's interested, pop me a line at my.name@g[mail.com
- reidman 17y agoGot one of those lovely 4-letter domains, though it's a bit gibberish: zwoz.com fwiw, if you rotate 'zwoz' 90 degrees clockwise, it says 'NEON'. It could work pretty well in the hands of an experienced logo designer ;D Incidentally, this is the domain I was originally going to use for my YC startup, whose name I eventually changed to 'Veracify': http://reidesign.us/misc/veracifyWebsite3-5.png http://reidesign.us/misc/veracifyWebsite3-5.png
- tomerico 17y agoYou made me tilt my head!
- trickjarrett 17y agotweatir.com tweetcore.com/net/org/mobi/info (have a half developed twitter app to go with it if someone wants to buy and take over) dormvoice.com hub9.com/org/net/mobi/info bsgfan.com unusuallysized.com
- tonyvt2005 17y agolaterwaiter.com eatseekr.com hollapalooza.com meetastartup.com shoutsignal.com turingcomplete.org waxsoft.com izeezy.com onedollartuition.org
- Ammar 17y agowww.tagademix.com www.shoutreel.com www.shoutreal.com www.salarypond.com www.streetbulletin.com www.h8up.com
- paulbaumgart 17y agoRivetingGames.com DatesFor.Us
- pclark 17y agoI have waypub.com - wish I could think of a project for it.
- stevejalim 17y agoiPhone/mobile app charting countryside pubs along interesting walking routes?
- davidw 17y agoI have jeejah.net, and would love to develop it into some kind of site for advanced mobile phone stuff. You'd have had to have read Neil Stephenson's Anathem to get the reference though. Speaking of something that would be anathema to many here, if web sites are going to be 'properties', then why don't they have property taxes based on the last sale value? That might keep people from squatting - they'd be "forced" to either develop the site into something that generates revenue, or sell it. In theory at least... I don't really think it is a good idea, but it's something to consider.
- pjdavis 17y agoI bought alcoholicsunanimo.us awhile back as an idea for a service to prevent drinking problems. You know you have a drinking problem if you drink alone, so you can send a txt to alcoholicsunanimo.us and let everyone know you want to drink, and need someone to drink with, and voilà! drinking problem solved.
- Locke1689 17y agogoogle.com
- Ras_ 17y agoresumelottery.com
- aguynamedben 17y agodiscoengine.com Anybody wanna build a discovery/recommendation engine with me?
- stevejalim 17y agoIf it has a mirrorball, I might be interested :o)
- JustinM 17y agosonecessary.com
- matrix 17y agokarmr.com (and karmr.net) Left over from a project. I have been thinking about selling it, but I'd consider swapping it for another pronounceable 5 or 6 letter name.
- eatenbyagrue 17y agocloudsdk.com
- mildavw 17y agoI recently abandoned a gift registry related app that accommodated custom subdomains ala basecamp: giftofile.com presentsfor.us knotlist.com giftquake.com registrylist.info showerlist.com wishalistic.com myregistryspace.com
- poutine 17y agogeekmail.com linkedlife.com
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- IsaacSchlueter 17y agointernetcultureawesome.com This was intended to be a place where I could share things that are awesome on the internet that my less technical people could follow. But I never got around to doing anything with it, and it's been 8 months now. jsvampires.com Its cousin, jsvampire.com (without the s), is a domain I use as a test site for a few things, but not sure why I bothered to register the plural. foos-hack.com (currently just a placeholder, never had any great ideas for this one.) authentipede.com
- dflock 17y agoI quite like authentipede for some reason. Not sure why or what you'd do with it though.
- tricky 17y agomenfacingdivorce.com menseekingdivorce.com womenfacingdivorce.com womenseekingdivorce.com (We were going to call our cheesy 90's cover band "men facing divorce" I got a little register-happy.)
- adatta02 17y agobeerstobone.com
- thorax 17y agoIf you're really bored with a domain and don't want to squat it, you could turn one of your short domains into a URL shrinker, we just opened up hosting for that yesterday: http://tinyarro.ws/info/custom/ http://tinyarro.ws/info/custom/
- jneal 17y agoI have a had many domains over the years that I decided to just let go of by not renewing, and then watched someone take them and do nothing with it. It's aggravating because now I have the ability to make these sites and can't because someone has had the domain for 6 years and never once updated it! Currently, the only domain I'm really sitting on is: www.hackershabitat.com Currently infested by 4789 bots, and hasn't been touched in over a year. I just don't know what to do with it.
- Harkins 17y agokcombinator.com
- paulgb 17y agoTo save other curious people the inevitable lookup: Kxy → x
- chops 17y agoVery awesome idea. It's super cool seeing so many folks trading, selling, and even giving away domains to other hackers looking to start a project. Myself, I've only ever owned domains for intended projects and when it became clear that a project wasn't getting developed ever, I'd simply let the domain die for someone else to hopefully get it and make a project out of it.
- tarmac 17y agorylor(dot)com tobeg(dot)com dyles(dot)com 5 letter domain names are hard to come by nowadays...
- jorgem 17y agoNow you know why 78 million COM names are taken. A few here, and a few there. Most doing nothing. I posted an analysis with list of available one-word domains that are left recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480858 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480858
- bbsabelli 17y agoshitcode.com
- ericwaller 17y agoseebulletin.com stealyourradio.com stolenradio.com
- sahaj 17y agosavethedot{dot}com
- tonetheman 17y agoyouapedia.com - with the thought that it would be nice to have a wiki entry on yourself. everyone loves to talk about themself. :)
- stevejohnson 17y agoWhat's stopping you from just setting up a wiki on it then?
- stevejohnson 17y agoIf you let me have this one, I'll happily make some sort of egocentric wiki site out of it. steve.johnson.public @ that gmail site
- huwshimi 17y agoIf you have a domain with something to do with giving recommendations (sharing/favourites/popular), even loosely related (or even so far removed it works) then let me know. I've been struggling with this one.
- secos 17y agoI have betterized.com and relevnt.com ... not sure what type of recommendations you are looking for, but these could work for the right ones
- RickFromSA 17y agoElkHider.com (say that out loud) MoreInterviews.com BlueTu.be BlogTu.be BitsOfHope.com MessageRecord.com ModernError.com Overclass.org AreaMates.com
- spencerfry 17y agouncover(dot)com (Yes, there's a website there, but I've recently been trying to sell the domain.)
- huwshimi 17y agoI may be interested in this domain.
- spencerfry 17y agoSure. Email me at email (at) spencerfry (dot) com.
- jgilliam 17y agoclimatecancer.* yesweare.org/us question4.org & questionfor.org
- kentf 17y agowetally.com
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- zackola 17y agoajarr.com eatingmaps.com icanhasrock.com lifeninja.com regfx.com shitonfire.com verymeta.com sudobangbang.com
- jbyers 17y agowhereim.com Geo-located IM service?
- karanbhangui 17y agoHey, this is great. I think it'd work for my mobile project. Would you be kind enough to email me your asking price or contact info to karan.bhangui@gmail.com
- Titanous 17y agodiskoverflow.com fxwsw.com hackedipod.com * hackediphone.com * * Was planning on developing these into some sort of information portal.
- timae 17y agoshreddedtweet.com middlemaps.com mynance.com
- aneesh 17y agoperfectlygoodideas.com
- reech 17y agovisualpolls.com workdout.com vegancuisines.com ambyant.com bustedhype.com citizensagainstgovernment.com (haha don't ask)
- joshsharp 17y agocliiq.com bloggergigs.com coursebuild.com tweetask.com timesharp.net
- sanswork 17y agobasicsofmoney.com codetutorials.com fromlastnight.com rentify.com thesitemart.com bfmv.com
- brent 17y ago1.0e100.com
- dazzla 17y agospamlies.com
- zzzmarcus 17y agotumblelogs.com debatist.com influencetree.com listlearn.com skatetrends.com vacationite.com weshould.com I also have tumblelog.com which could definitely be put to better use.
- TTDaVeTT 17y agochattero.us
- robertk 17y agobiggestjerkever.com
- paraschopra 17y agoagribizconsulting.com supplylifeline.com precimark.com predictivewebanalytics.com
- 4ensic 17y agoIdork.com YourGodIsDead.com BinaryShit.com Reordertone.com Worldwideshit.com NSATT.net ShiTv.com You can probably tell that my weekend projects may involve alcohol.
- prawn 17y agoMost of mine are .com.au or .net.au (e.g., body.net.au, industry.net.au, rating.com.au, lends.com.au, knows.com.au, etc), but I have three .coms I have never got around to using: twitcorps.com Plan was for a register of businesses using Twitter, categorised by how they were using it and how well they were using it. It would be a way for newcomers to get ideas on how their businesses could give it a crack. topictwits.com The idea was basically wefollow.com, but then that got released and so I forgot about it. popslide.com First idea was for people to email a bunch of photos and get back a URL pointing to a quick, thumbnailed gallery. Like what Posterous does, but for one-offs. Second idea was for something similar, but you'd email a sequence of statements and you'd get back a URL pointing to an animated Flash presentation (a la Powerpoint) that you could tweak and style later.
- hrabago 17y agoI've been holding on to irtue.com/irtue.net. It's supposed to mean "I refuse to use Evite".
- ironkeith 17y agoI assumed it was going to be a v.irture.com
- willb 17y agoshadowgovernment.org
- kngspook 17y agoIs this one still available? If so, toss me a mail at my username at gmail?
- vitovito 17y agoGood idea, I've been letting domains expire all year long. amateurhour.org just expired, but I could renew it if someone wanted it. trrd.org, trrrd.com/org, nichekitsch.com, enoughnow.org and w9gfo/0.org are the only ones left, I think.
- TeHCrAzY 17y agosmoulderinghotgoats.com
- hellweaver666 17y agoadz4.com realityinvasion.com rentacal.com (had an idea I never finished) iwearyourtshirt.com (blatent cybersquatting) stolenfocus.com (ex photoblog) weightmonkey.com (half arsed attempt) swearalot.com (stupid site) fuelsaving-guide.com (ebook?) droitwich.me (my local town)
- gscott 17y agouserlinks.com askshare.com gallery508.com sharedlist.com
- thejefe711 17y agoshopperfeed.com
- ironkeith 17y agostupidsiteforjerks.com: I thought it would be funny if you could upload pictures of people and let them know you think they're a jerk. It would also be funny (to me...) to sell merchandise from "The Jerk Store". That this is the best start-up idea I've ever had would explain my current day job...
- ironkeith 17y agoI also have: 10000spoons.com autobooked.com itsbeendays.com slantless.com
- phoghawk 17y agostudystud.com
- FreeRadical 17y agotwitterstores.com
- ca98am79 17y agosimplescoreboard.com cvoy.com 0k1.org
- ttrashh 17y agoeatingwords.com papersubmit.com (never finished it...anyone with drupal experience who wants to finish let me know) weheartthings.com
- secos 17y agousermob.com twooty.com carmindr.com fixingstupid.com
- nfriedly 17y agoscrewbeingsingle.com - entirely unused misticflame.com - used occasionally, would be willing to part with.