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Web Domain White Elephant Exchange
- pan69 13y agoSo I can exchange a domain I don't want for a domain I don't want, correct?
- danielzarick 13y agoYes, that's exactly the point. Have some fun & do stupid things. (With that said... there are some really, really great domains in this list. So you might get lucky.)
- zch 13y agoWas going to ask how you saw the list before noticing that you created it.
- danielzarick 13y ago:) Yep!
- Casseres 13y agoI signed up. Will you share the list of domains after they've been exchanged? Thanks for doing this, it should be fun!
- danielzarick 13y agoThat's the plan! Going to post a list of all domains and who sent/received them at webdomainwhiteelephantexchange.com
- larrys 13y agoYou really need to shorten that to wdwee.com which is available.
- danielzarick 13y agoActually, I really don't need to do that. The absurd length is part of the humor. Plus, WDWEE.com is 10x more difficult to type.
- larrys 13y agoWell you know about humor (from your profile) and I know about domains and naming. It's (part of) what I do. And I make plenty of money doing it (both buying and selling) as well as consulting for people who you have heard of and who you trust and that pay me for my opinion. So given that we are talking about +-$12 or so for wdwee.com while you may not feel you need it there really isn't much in going with the expert opinion on the subject. I mean if I decided to do standup comedy and you told me to "drink 3 glasses of water and piss before going on stage" I'd probably take your word for it and not tell you "I really don't think I need to do that". And I'm guessing I'm probably better at domains than you are at comedy. Agree that wdwee is hard to type. But so is a long domain name (chance of typos is greater with more letters, in general). Not saying you should use it instead of the ironic name but as an additional short acronym.
- danielzarick 13y agoFeel free to buy it and donate it to the cause. I'm already investing hundreds of dollars in opportunity cost for a dumb way to give people a few laughs, so I don't feel like throwing down another $10. :)
- cpeterso 13y agoIs webdomainwhiteelephantexchange.com one of the domains in the exchange? :)
- andrewgjohnson 13y agoMade me smile for a minute but really unpractical. I'll probably register aksjfgkahgiowetiuwj.info from Godaddy for 99cents just to get involved
- danielzarick 13y agoWhy would this be practical? Do you know what a white elephant gift is? Wikipedia: "A white elephant is an idiom for a valuable but burdensome possession of which its owner cannot dispose and whose cost (particularly cost of upkeep) is out of proportion to its usefulness or worth." Get with it.
- Xeroday 13y agoI believe there's a 60 or 90 day period before you can transfer a domain after you've registered it anyways.
- danielzarick 13y agoYou can usually transfer it to another user on the same registrar. They just don't want to lose it to another company. (At least, that's my super rough understanding of it.)
- t0 13y agoYou should match people that have submitted domains from the same registrar so fees are avoided in most cases.
- danielzarick 13y agoThat sounds like a wonderful idea... but far too much work for it to be worth it. Maybe next year...
- bushido 13y agoYou could make the source available and let some of us help contribute to make this possible.
- jrochkind1 13y agothis is hilarious
- bcbrown 13y agoWhat do you do if you don't have a twitter account? It's required in the form.
- johns 13y agoSign up?
- danielzarick 13y agoJust put "N/A" or something. It doesn't matter that much. I just wanted 2 ways to reach out to people.
- qwerty_asdf 13y agoMaybe, create an account using the name of the domain? (if possible) It's a domain name that no one wants, ergo one might presume that the twitter handle is equally undesirable?
- lowglow 13y agoI'm building www.nametagup.com for this type of trade/exchange year round.
- danielzarick 13y agoI really hope you don't get stuck with these domains then... because most of them would never be purchased willingly. :)
- srhngpr 13y agoInteresting idea, but if you are seeing the full list, what's stopping you from just assigning yourself to the domains that you want?
- danielzarick 13y agoBecause I'm not an asshole?
- srhngpr 13y agoI'm sold.
- danielzarick 13y agoMy persuasion skills are impeccable.
- danielzarick 13y agoP.S. I showed this to a friend and her response was: "Little does that guy know, you're totally an asshole." So there's that...
- pontifier 13y agoI'm sold.
- callmeed 13y agoOk, just added one ... this actually kinda fun
- patmcc 13y agoI like it, I've signed up with one of my hey-this-could-work-but-oh-i-got-lazy ideas.
- danielzarick 13y agoThere's a handful of those in the list: interesting old names for apps. Then there are a lot of "Wouldn't it be funny if I bought ____?" domains. Those are pretty great too.
- szidev 13y agothis is great. i have a strange compulsion to buy awful domain names, regardless of their usefulness. is there any rule against multiple entries (aside from the possibility of exchanging with yourself?)
- danielzarick 13y agoNope! Right now I'm allowing multiple domains, up to a point. (Maximum is 3) Enjoy!
- Casseres 13y agoCool, added two more.
- thom 13y agoAw, I let a lot of my unwanted domains expire this year instead of hoarding them. But given that they were all rubbish, it does mean that heapt.com (you know, like 'heaped', piles of things!) and f6ing.com (a gaming thing...) are free and unencumbered.
- tracker1 13y agoIf you had them for a while, not necessarily likely... the squatting companies tend to do a grab of recently expired domains... most that I've let go over the years (tend to get 2-3 new ones, and let 2-3 go a year) are in that group.
- wtracy 13y agoI let streamingcrack.com expire a while back after sitting on it a couple years, and it's still free. YMMV.
- pgrote 13y agoDo any registrars charge to transfer domains between account on their system? I would want to ensure I didn't get one of those.
- danielzarick 13y agoEh, if you don't want it and it costs money to transfer, then you don't have to take it. It's not like there will be a grim reaper debt collector coming after you.......
- pgrote 13y agoThis reassures me since I know you are not asshole. I'm sold.
- danielzarick 13y agoI fully expect something to go very wrong with this, so I'm just preparing to not care when it does. :)
- pgrote 13y agoThe funny thing is someone didn't know the above was sarcasm based on your previous response. I like the idea and I think it'll turn out fine.
- danielzarick 13y agoPeople will always try to put us down.:)
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- morgante 13y agoFun idea! I just signed up with an old domain, hope someone else might have the time to do something hilarious with it.
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- bhartzer 13y agoI hope that no one gives away a domain that has a trademark or trademark "typo" in it.
- SimpleXYZ 13y agoNeat. So tempted...
- asciimo 13y agoI feel like any one of those people on Hoarders when they must choose the first thing to let go of. Not pretty.
- astrong 13y agoFun idea Daniel. I'll throw something in.
- brewdad 13y agoBummer. I have a .de domain that I really don't want/need. The web form won't accept it.
- danielzarick 13y agoTry again... I disabled the URL validation on that field. However, the validation required http:// http:// in front, so that may have been the issue.
- brewdad 13y agoProbably was the missing http:// http:// It works now. This should be fun.
- lbearl 13y agoThanks for organizing this, I added one in.
- reagan83 13y agoThis is a fun idea. If you do this match on the 25th it will actually be like receiving a timely gift. Looking forward to the post-exchange discussion.
- nly 13y agoPresumably when you publish the new owner list you won't make everyones email address public?
- danielzarick 13y agoEmails will definitely stay private. Your name, @username, and personal website will likely be published.
- lenazegher 13y agoTwo domains I'm not using, stretchier.com and loners.org, are expiring this month. Anyone want either? They're regged at namecheap, can either transfer there or give you a code for another registrar Don't want to do this exchange because I really don't want another two domains :P
- unreal37 13y agoI might want to take loners.org from you, and create "facebook, without the ability to add friends". /joke
- lenazegher 13y agohaha, that's actually a pretty funny idea
- mburns 13y agoOne that has been done, fwiw. https://about.me/ https://about.me/
- CreakyParrot 13y agoPeople ask why I'm not on Facebook. I tell them I'm anti-social and thus will only join anti-social networks. They don't usually get it.
- larrys 13y agoDon't drop loners.org It's worth holding on to for sure. Not great that it's a .org but as a general rule a name like that is worth keeping and paying the reg fee on. stretchier.com same thing. I would hold onto it it's worth the gamble.
- sneak 13y agoHe already tried that. You're not helping.
- unreal37 13y agoGood idea. Signed up. The domain I'm offering was actually inspired by a few people at HN. Never had the time to develop it.
- larrys 13y agoDomain guy here. Years in this business. From my experience I've seen plenty of domains over time that have been deleted that end up getting purchased by someone sometimes for a large amount of money. The carrying cost is quite nominal. As a general rule if you own a large amount of wacky domains that you think have little value (that are .com I have to stress that) someone will come along at some point and offer to buy it from you. If you want proof of this go see some of the domains that are listed on buydomains.com and the price for those domains. Ask yourself if you owned any of those domains whether you would have let them go or not (I'm talking about the ones that sell for $750 to $2000 not the obvious hi value ones). Here's a few I just found (random) sourcingintelligence.com $1488 pearline.com $2500 ...etc. Add: One thing I have to stress is this. When someone comes along and wants to buy your wacky domain close the deal. You very well will not have another chance for 5 or 10 years. Get as much as you can and do the deal.
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- cpeterso 13y agoWhat is the usual process for exchanging a domain name? Do you use a domain escrow service? Those buydomains.com numbers are the asking prices. I'm sure most of those are never going to sell or will sell far below asking price.
- Casseres 13y agoI've negotiated a 5 letter .net from BuyDomains.com from $1488 to $488. I didn't buy it, but yeah, never buy a domain name without negotiating first.
- smartician 13y agoGreat idea! Signed up.
- 1986v 13y agoSubmitted, this is pretty sweet!
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- bushido 13y agoAny possibility of adding a counter displaying the number of domains on the list. May help hoarders like me to finally hit submit, peer pressure and all that :)
- danielzarick 13y agoWe just hit 300 people/domains who have signed up. Is that enough for you? ;)
- jabiko 13y agoSomewhat related: Some time ago I wanted to create a dyndns service for Rasperry Pi devices. I registered the domains (my-pi.net, my-py.net, my-pi.de) but never created the actual website. So if anyone wants these domains for free, contact me.
- k3oni 13y agoOk, i'm in :)
- elijahchancey 13y agoI have boip.com but I have no idea what to do with it. Any suggestions?
- 178 13y agoNeat. I'll might throw in koshercloud.net :)
- jasonkester 13y agoAwesome idea. Really makes me regret not holding on to whatswrongwithmypenis.com just so that I could gift it to some poor soul as part of this.
- IanChiles 13y agoTossed one of my domains in. Awesome idea, took a while to figure out what domain to let go though
- SeoxyS 13y agoSo, I suck. I couldn't let go of any of my precious precious hoarded domains, so I bought a new one for the occasion.
- danielzarick 13y agoThat's fine... you're only an asshole who broke the rules. JK – I'll let if fly. :)
- znowi 13y agoThat's a neat idea. But why twitter account is mandatory for this?
- danielzarick 13y agoBecause it's useful to have two ways to contact someone in case the exchange goes awry. It's already come in handy today.
- JustinGarrison 13y agoI just signed up. I feel sorry for whoever gets my throwaway domains when http://1n73r.net http://1n73r.net is my "good" domain.