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by acgourley • 19 years ago

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acgourley3• 19 years ago

At some point I was thinking of building a quick site to allow people to list/give/swap domain names with a small community of developers. My rational is that many of us sit on a pile of them we bought for past or never-to-be completed ideas, and we could help each other out by making them available. It would be cool if someone did build that side one day, but for now it probably makes more sense to just piggyback on an existing community.

Of course I just had several names expire before I thought to do this, but I'm willing to part with:

dealray.com mobophile.com mobozen.com

I'm not looking for money, but I will ask that you actually plan on using the domain for something cool somewhat soon. The transfer of a domain off 1and1 is a mild pita after all.

gscott• 19 years ago

This is the most amazing place to get domain names http://www.tdnam.com.

Some of the recent ones I have registered using tdnam are ShareCircle.com, RealtyGoLive.com, SharedList.com, SoftwareOutpost.com, UserLinks.com, and AskShare.com. All of them cost $10+$8 to register. People who say good domains are gone are not totally correct.

acgourley3• 19 years ago

Thanks, that looks nice.

louisadekoya• 19 years ago

I own buzztricks.com; whatilooklike.com; alterpay.com; legitmp3s.com and peerquit.com.

nextmoveone2• 19 years ago

I thought it said queerpit at first glance...lol

SwellJoe• 19 years ago

People always think I'm saying "virtualmen.com"...Quite different, but possibly also valid, business model.

nextmoveone2• 19 years ago

I'm willing to give up:

getretarded.net smsfiend.com safemortgagesource.com strategic-mortgagedata.com

but I want at least one in return.

plusbryan• 19 years ago

DUDE strategic-mortgagedata.com???? I've been waiting for that domain since 1994! Woot!

adrianwaj3• 19 years ago

I like getretarded.net

spking2• 19 years ago

This thread resparked my interest in building a free place to sell and buy domains. I used to frequent Sitepoint's domain marketplace to sell some of my domains or find some good deals, but I hate paying 10 bucks just to list.

I'll be rolling out Version 0.1 tomorrow, and you'll be able to put all of your domains up for free. If you want me to email you with the link when it's live, please email me at:

seantrades@gmail.com

with the subject: Domain Market

acgourley3• 19 years ago

The important point is that its not just a charity to whomever wants them, because there are many sleezy people who will just scoop them up. There needs to be some community element, and the person giving them away should know that either the person taking the name has also given away names, or is planning to put the domain to good use.

spking2• 19 years ago

So I am coding this now in RoR. I think you're right, there needs to be some sort of karma/credit system to keep the sleazeball squatters away and out of the community. It also needs to accomodate all types of users (selling for cash, trading, and giving away free). Hmmm...

adrianwaj3• 19 years ago

There is already a free domain swap marketplace and looks pretty good http://www.zuho.com/. Another one wouldn't hurt.

adrianwaj3• 19 years ago

scottmcnealy.com

groovetip.com

Jd• 19 years ago

godspeaksto.us

Tichy2• 19 years ago

Hm, sure that isn't worth a lot of money? I have no experience with domain trading, but that name sounds fairly good. Not sure how the minds of religious people work, though.

rms2• 19 years ago

The domains that are actually worth money are the ones that generate residual type in traffic. godspeaksto.us could be good for branding some type of religious site that believed itself to be divinely inspired but I doubt many people are buying domains like this to start Web 2.0 religions.

fuelfive• 19 years ago

3by5.net

cloudrocket.com

liquidmarket.org

insum.net / org

momentumapp.com

trackmomentum.com

wikiphi.com

fuel5.com

fuelfive.com

vrabbits.com

feedocracy.com

drytest.com

joefaron• 19 years ago

i own kyd.net..

use to host free web space on it years ago in high school.. then my home dsl went out and its been doing nothing since. sad story i know.

Extra domain names? Offer them to fellow news yc'ers here.

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