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Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
107 points by stevejalim on June 11, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 298 comments
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]




I'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..


Big thumbs up to the starter of this thread, by the way. I've already given away three domains in the last two hours..


Will they get used though? You'd hope so.


I've adopted a sort of honor-driven set of conditions with the people I've given them to - a "domain traders' code," if you will:

1) If you don't use the domain, I get first refusal to have it back. 2) If you do use the domain, and if I request, you'll give me a link on the site someplace. (More a speculative thing than anything..) 3) If you go on to sell the domain/site for big bucks, you'll remember me and get me something from my Amazon wishlist ;-)

It's all honor-bound and ridiculously hard to enforce, but I'm a big believer in honor, so who knows.. :)


superyay.com is possibly the most amazing domain I've ever seen. I can't even look at it without chuckling.


i'd be interested in obtaining topichub from you...


It'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.


I tried emailing you but got a bounce. [petercooper]@[petercooper].co.uk, right? (obviously without braces, ha)


It's funny he seemed to try so hard to avoid writing the email directly, and you did just that.


Weird.. I thought I allowed all e-mail addresses through. Try [my first name] @ [my user name].co.uk instead ;-) As in peter@petercooper :) That should work for sure.


I'd like to know the availability for cocoainside.com. I sent you email yesterday.


space pit sounds like a name for a pinball table, I like it :)


I bought it to set up a PopUrls/Alltop style site for space/astronomy related news. Actually, I might well end up doing that, especially since I could now throw Twitter feeds on to it too..


you do that, I will be first one to subscribe!


Has 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."


I bought a domain name (actually, the big three) for a phrase that would be instantly recognizable on HN, with the intention of using it for a weekend project. Halfway through the weekend, before it was publicly accessible, I got an email from a chap in Italy saying it was his heart's desire to use that name for his software company, and could I please give him the domain name.

I'll mention to you what I mentioned to him : if you have hearts desire, you can afford $10 for a reg fee the SECOND you think of that domain name. (This is why I routinely buy them for weekend projects.)

But I am a softie for small software companies, so I made him a deal: I'd keep the domain pointed at his DNS servers for a year, meaning he gets 100% practical use out of the domain. If, at the end of the year, he had a software company active on the site, I'd transfer it to him gratis. If not, I'd keep it.

I think that everyone wins for that, except my weekend project. (Sure, I could technically screw him over, but I value my reputation far more than my domain names, even a pretty nice one.)


Its a bad deal for him... What if his company takes off and you don't transfer the domain at the end of the year.. huge risk for him..


Once 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?


Would 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


I 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.


You'd need a central provider.


Hmm, a domain leasing agent...paying rent for a domain name, kinda like renting office space. Has this been done already?


Good 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.


Yea, 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

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.


I 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/>... 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.


Probably the best analogy you could make


I don't think the real estate analogy fits. You have to pay significant property taxes each year to own real estate(not just $6).

I think a better analogy is registering a corporate name or trademark. If you don't use it, you lose it. You can't just register it and then prevent other people from using that name indefinitely unless they pay you off.


Yes, 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


Yeah, 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)


I'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


buyitwhen.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.


You 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.


Ooo... I actually started something "just" like this, and this domain name is perfect. Would you part with it?


I'm at [dylans]at[gmail.com]


I 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.


0spy.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. :)


Here 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.


Great 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)


Or use www.twitter.com/domaintrade. I'll set up a "bot" for it.


Let me know if you whip up something - it's a nice idea you've put forward


I 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/ . I'm happy to lease/loan these domains to someone on the cheap who wants to use them for a good project.


I have to ask what thegreatmustachechallenge was.


We 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...


I'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


I'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).


I have bringbacktheblinktag.com

If anyone wants to mount a campaign to bring back the much maligned html tag then let me know!


I was hoping for a pro-blink-tag essay that all blinked using javascript.


I 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


I 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.


There 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.)


I 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.


I have "wow! A looks like B, haha" problem alot. Thankfully I dont ever buy domain names though.


Now 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


linux-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.


If 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/


I'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.


Heres 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 :(


Funny 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


I have something I could use for ListLocal.com. If you're willing to part with it, I'm at: [dylans]at[gmail.com]


interested in salemetrics and listlocal.com.


I have xpcom.org I can't remember what I was going to do with it.


I also have FREDHEADSUSA.COM FREDHEADSUSA.ORG

but Fred dropped out of the primaries :)


redirect it to forgetfirefox.com http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=653203


dcrowd.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

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.


Kill30.com Freetvee.com iPhonization.com LaughYouLose.com IfMomAsks.com 140date.com 140me.com


I 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.


ElkHider.com (say that out loud) MoreInterviews.com BlueTu.be BlogTu.be BitsOfHope.com MessageRecord.com ModernError.com Overclass.org AreaMates.com


hogornot.com


Why 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.


If 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

Is was good to pick up django, jquery etc. It has little content right now but anyway -- it's up!


Hah, nice job :)

Keep us updated on the ad revenue numbers :P


Hmm -- all right, I'm on it.


any 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


Scripts?

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


Point well taken. I usually use a simple request to show interest in a new category, and hope someone interested gets involved. My interest is in something slightly more complicated than the turnkey sites that are out there, as well as more of a helpful tool to entrepreneurs and advertisers - the thesis of the idea is best represented by an "ornot script" but it goes beyond another "me too" site that already exists. My thoughts of adding value using something that is fairly widespread may be futile though.


Understood. I was responding to a guy that is sitting on a domain though. That means it's a net loser for him unless he does something with it.

Now, you can approach that by dedicating a lot of time and effort into building something unique, as you would like to do, or you can just realize that the market is pretty bare and launch something that will make some pocket change at worst.

Given that he's considering giving the domain away for free, I simply suggested he do the latter.


I assumed it was an identify-the-cute-pig-picture captcha service.


In 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?


It's a good skills refresher for someone like me who hasn't done any web programming for a few years.


Well 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.


I have coldornot.com - was thinking of doing a parody of hotornot.com, but haven't had the time.


Very 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.


why 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?


I 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]


servingsizes.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.


Have 182 - dropped the list on pastebin:

http://pastebin.com/m1742e685

Hit me up if you're interested.


Renewing that many domain names must suck =(


that's only about 1/2 of what I have, too ;)


genodate.com Send in a DNA sample and we'll match you to a member most unlike yours.


exactly. just like 23date. (23andme, etc)


Most 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.


8t.org

lowerca.se


You should sell the second one to http://lowercasellc.com/ - which is Chris Sacca's new firm.


How long have you been holding on to that first one?


since at least 2003. i ran a site at 1.8t.org for a number of years but now i'm just hanging on to it because it's a 2-letter domain.


you could do a retro 80's (music, memorabilia, whatever) site with that one.


baddeveloper.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.


It appears there may actually be enough interest here if you did set up a site :)


bottomcoder.com


:)


obamanutpunch.com

poofilter.com

lawgician.com


i would love to hear your monetization strategy. :)


mostly 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/). 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%2...)


You could have an automated site extracting whitehouse photos from here: 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.


I think its fine as long is at doesn't in any way suggest approval or endorsement of the President.. Public figures are pretty much fair game. The question is whether the "manipulated in any way" is modified by "that in any way suggest approval." The way this clause is constructed, I would read it as such.


That's what hosting in The Netherlands is for.


Bad idea. Since Obama's not only a Muslim but the second coming of the prophet Abraham, peace be upon him, he'll murder anyone who blasphemes his picture.


actually played this card even further once with billboards of bush http://www.bigredwire.com/images/photos/bush_sign.gif and a quote we put in his mouth. some newspapers balked but nary a word from w. everyone else loved it.


I'm pretty sure any picture that looks like a "nut punch" will not suggest endorsement of the President.


Tito Jackson in the house!

(check the whois)


I 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


aggregatedesign.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..


instantgolfclap! do it now! then when you are done, go here http://instantgolfclap.com


I wanted to but I couldn't find a decent golf clap audio clip and was too lazy to record one myself. http://sadtrombone.com/


flagsfororphans.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.)


Here's the Wikipedia article for that episode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Spritz_Goes_to_Washington


yougottabeshittin.me digdiary.com and for when Firefox jumps the shark

forgetfirefox.com


:D Can you have it point to arora-browser.org?


fuckaneers.com


internetcultureawesome.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


I quite like authentipede for some reason. Not sure why or what you'd do with it though.


Not sure we'd trade these, but here they are:

quippo.com

helpcloud.com


grabkindle.com

An affiliate experiment. I actually sold a Kindle and made $36!


awesomeopossum.com


i bet people would forget that middle o all the time.


that is awesome. For sale?


newe.st boxed.in

Open to selling them or trading them: randrews@geekfu.org


Wirefriend.com

Designtheuniverse.com

Pouqe.com

Xanama.com

Badbeatlounge.com / those of you who play poker will get this one...


Xanama would make a good software code name.. longhorn etc


youapedia.com - with the thought that it would be nice to have a wiki entry on yourself. everyone loves to talk about themself. :)


What's stopping you from just setting up a wiki on it then?


If 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


quicklibs.com

datafeel.com


I like datafeel - it's generic but can be applied to many situations


Yep. Even quicklibs is fantastic.


It also has the merit of sounding vaguely naughty without actually being offensive :-)


advertiserblogs.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


I have this horrible habit of grabbing domains for every idea I think of for longer than two minutes.

It adds up after a while.


Would you consider trading/selling kill5minutes.com?


What did you have in mind for serendipityrow.com? Good band name, after Led Zeppelin.


It 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/

Kill5Minutes was going to be the same idea, but for more low-brow stuff.


Spotplex when it was around tracked and displayed articles by popularity. Blogs and sites had a SP javascript code that sent back page views.


menfacingdivorce.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.)


I have tons of video-related and training related domains. If anyone's interested, pop me a line at my.name@g[mail.com


diskoverflow.com fxwsw.com hackedipod.com * hackediphone.com *

* Was planning on developing these into some sort of information portal.


nerdsdoitrarely.com


tweatir.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


ajarr.com eatingmaps.com icanhasrock.com lifeninja.com regfx.com shitonfire.com verymeta.com sudobangbang.com


isolobal.com manwench.com odvious.com twickster.com

I had ideas for all, just hit me up if you want to hear any of it :)


I'd be scared to hear your idea for manwench.com


That was a combination joke/my attempt to bring back the word wench.

What can I say? I like the word itself, we just need to find a new meaning or someone get rid of the implications of the word.


pornrequest.com


would that be like cha cha where you ask the website to find you something in particular? ;)


tumblelogs.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.


weshould.com is a pretty promising name. I'd squat that for decades, considering but never implementing the many possibilities.


HN so needs a +1 funny mod ;)


coredumpster.com onebigcatch.com matchisle.com


coredumpster.com seems like the perfect domain for a parody of stackoverflow.


Or a UNIX-only version of serverfault


Great idea Steve.


greatideasteve.com is available...


what3va.co.uk (i don't know what i was thinking, but someone might have a use).


If 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.


I have betterized.com and relevnt.com ... not sure what type of recommendations you are looking for, but these could work for the right ones


letsdrive.us -> for a carpool solution

neighbourly.org -> for a craigslist+maps mashup.


Interested in neighbourly.org: [dylans]at[gmail.com]


foreverlist.com nuncatarde.com

I have plans for both domains, but they're on the back-burner.


idoh.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.


Are you crazy, man? You've got to keep idoh.org .


I'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?


lifetagg.com

evrware.com

merberati.com

nerderat.us

yasurl.com

I must confess that I registered all of these domains while intoxicated.

[edit: spacing]


I'd be interested in lifetagg.com if you dont see a use for it anymore ...

[sundeep@ymail.com]


bowbefore.us

blastcapacity.org

write2left.com

themeupdate.com

I'm letting them all expire this year at some point.


bowbefore.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.


a 4chan competitor, obviously.


Good 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.


SearchBuzz.com


Oh wow, I'd love to snag this if I could. I've got a project in dev with this written all over it.


replied via your contact form on your blog


climatecancer.* yesweare.org/us question4.org & questionfor.org


I have waypub.com - wish I could think of a project for it.


iPhone/mobile app charting countryside pubs along interesting walking routes?


pixaruniversity.com

pittsburghfounders.com

snappyresume.com

careersauce.com

colonytech.com

allthebigstuff.com

findoozle.com

getfounding.com

fleetheshame.com

newmediamonthly.com

webkeynote.com

thetippingblog.com


Would you give away/sell snappyresume?


Sure. I'd sell or negotiate a fair trade. Shoot me an email:

brianklash at gmail dot com


Would you be willing to sell off findoozle.com? If so, please email me at karan.bhangui@gmail.com :)

Thanks


failfund.com/org/net corrupt.me


karmr.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.


existornot.com beforeyouspit.com spitforhumanity.com


ishillarypresidentyet.com


I imagine this is just a static HTML page with a big "No"...


haha nice. i have isronpaulpresident.com.


buxomwenches.com


govevents.org

mobpoint.com & mobpt.com


Hey, 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 :)


stupidsiteforjerks.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...


I also have: 10000spoons.com autobooked.com itsbeendays.com slantless.com


Idork.com

YourGodIsDead.com

BinaryShit.com

Reordertone.com

Worldwideshit.com

NSATT.net

ShiTv.com

You can probably tell that my weekend projects may involve alcohol.


animedubzone.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


"pussyandguns.com" -- photos of cats and guns?


so we'd be talking lolfrags?

apologises


I like sound of the 'bitsboltsandvolts' ones but don't have specific ideas to develop it.


deletetheinternet.com - that's fn' cool

edit: maybe pop a message over to Iran


tweetby.com

mabify.com

nakedfile.com

stormset.com


adstreet.net

alwayscontact.com

ballerscholar.com

bccmark.com

betterword.net

cardcurrent.com

mbawall.com

picturethenews.com/.net/.org

recofriend.com


I'd be interested in ballerscholar.com if it's available.


Hi, 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.


I didn't get it. What's your email address? I will send you a note.


betterword.com, was that going to be a thesaurus site, or a word-fight site?


ajax thesaurus!


would you be willing to sell adstreet.net? My email is karan.bhangui@gmail.com if you want to shoot me a message :P


groopvine.com

phreshy.com


uncover(dot)com (Yes, there's a website there, but I've recently been trying to sell the domain.)


I may be interested in this domain.


Sure. Email me at email (at) spencerfry (dot) com.


fortunecookienotes.com w-note.com addresstree.com & addresstree.net

Would be will to trade for some of these.


Bleh, just read my comment from before. It's "would be _willing_ to trade." Love typos.


I've been holding on to irtue.com/irtue.net. It's supposed to mean "I refuse to use Evite".


I assumed it was going to be a v.irture.com


hookahhacking.com


eskimokissing.com


what led to that? j/w


It's a common English phrase that means to rub noses.


agribizconsulting.com supplylifeline.com precimark.com predictivewebanalytics.com


1.0e100.com


g.iraffe.com

launchingthefuture.com

mailmetext.com

understands.me


i really like g.iraffe. could i get in touch about maybe trading or buying?


kyle.c.maxwell at mail<->g.com


launching the future sounds like the next pepsi campaign.


mixit.fm

vidcharts.com

kirbygamereview.com

newsrotica.com


How much for mixit.fm?


kcombinator.com


To save other curious people the inevitable lookup:

Kxy → x


blogwalking.com


seedsea.com millipaid.com


redflavor.com


Should start a complimentary dev shop for http://blueflavor.com/


I like that, I don't know why?


very intriguing


like blueflavor.com


b a c k s c a m . c o m


my 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.


discoengine.com

Anybody wanna build a discovery/recommendation engine with me?


If it has a mirrorball, I might be interested :o)


perfectlygoodideas.com


codeshout.com nerdi.us


userlinks.com askshare.com gallery508.com sharedlist.com


mutoxen.com


grawked.com net org

smartisan.com

goodfromgoods.com

creatorial(s).com

brokerageview.com

finefreight.com

letsbreakit.com


biggestjerkever.com


seebulletin.com stealyourradio.com stolenradio.com


eatingwords.com papersubmit.com (never finished it...anyone with drupal experience who wants to finish let me know) weheartthings.com


www.tagademix.com

www.shoutreel.com

www.shoutreal.com

www.salarypond.com

www.streetbulletin.com

www.h8up.com


laterwaiter.com

eatseekr.com

hollapalooza.com

meetastartup.com

shoutsignal.com

turingcomplete.org

waxsoft.com

izeezy.com

onedollartuition.org


meetyu.com

tastycomics.com

scenapse.com

flipmojo.com


mvent.com

backtours.com

STARALIKE.COM

fourpawsclub.com

credit-planet.com

ereader-review.com

netbookreviewsonline.com

etc...


falsifi.com

mktpost.com

lidly.com

ride-radar.com


adz4.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)


whereim.com

Geo-located IM service?


Hey, 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


darnnews.com, greathive.com, thegreathive.com


theconundrum.com


rylor(dot)com

tobeg(dot)com

dyles(dot)com

5 letter domain names are hard to come by nowadays...


  RivetingGames.com
  DatesFor.Us


screwbeingsingle.com - entirely unused

misticflame.com - used occasionally, would be willing to part with.


shitcode.com


faqbotic.com


visualpolls.com

workdout.com

vegancuisines.com

ambyant.com

bustedhype.com

citizensagainstgovernment.com (haha don't ask)


chattero.us


geekmail.com linkedlife.com


basicsofmoney.com

codetutorials.com

fromlastnight.com

rentify.com

thesitemart.com

bfmv.com


cliiq.com

bloggergigs.com

coursebuild.com

tweetask.com

timesharp.net


shreddedtweet.com

middlemaps.com

mynance.com


blendify.com

roundscore.com


Oh yeah.

Textada.com (Auto-reply business text messaging service - never started)


sniggr.com

dontgodigital.com


bets-for.us

bets4.us

betsfor.us

gambool.net

kungfugrep.com

linktacular.com

linktacular.net

phoenixfringe.com

sublunaris.com

tripgather.com

tripgather.net


smoulderinghotgoats.com


shadowgovernment.org


Is this one still available? If so, toss me a mail at my username at gmail?


usermob.com twooty.com carmindr.com fixingstupid.com


savethedot{dot}com


sonecessary.com


simplescoreboard.com cvoy.com 0k1.org


studystud.com


spamlies.com


cloudsdk.com


wetally.com


twitterstores.com


resumelottery.com


beerstobone.com


[dead]


You made me tilt my head!


http://bit.ly/kOEwx


V good URL shortener domain for Google.

edit: why remove gu.gl?


groupdraw.com

halfmeet.com

newofferz.com

urlcomments.com


cleverhub.com

crowdhub.com

twijj.com


shopperfeed.com


google.com




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