Web Domain White Elephant Exchange has concluded

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6964548

by jere • 13 years ago

24 29 13 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

I can't repost yet, but here's the URL;

http://webdomainwhiteelephantexchange.com/

jere2• 13 years ago

And it appears I am receiving getwinky.com

I guess I have to make a gay dating site now?

[I'm giving away whereisedward.com, which is more or less working as intended at the moment]

t0• 13 years ago

I'm in the same boat. smellmybacon.com. Let's do this.

bushido• 13 years ago

I'd probably try something like foodgawker but for recipes that contain bacon, its easy enough to build. (hint: I love bacon!! then again who doesn't.)

xauronx4• 13 years ago

When you said "I'm in the same boat" I thought you meant making a gay dating site. I was like "smell my bacon" must be an innuendo for something.

refrigerator• 13 years ago

I think the lucky bastard that got bigbang.com wins this

jere2• 13 years ago

Yea, I couldn't believe that. There's quite a few other decent ones though.

richo4• 13 years ago

I dunno man, fappyholidays.com ?

alaskamiller• 13 years ago

Awesome ones:

likesecret.com, mixtapes.io, mealguru.com, happyhot.com, bigbang.com, homies and roomies.io, lllllllllllll.com

Then there's cultclassic.xxx

hkmurakami• 13 years ago

A certain someone on HN may want the reverse.vc domain haha.

bjeanes• 13 years ago

mealguru was mine. Hopefully new owner will make some use of it. I had a great idea once for it but never acted on it. I've had plenty of offers ($2k+) for the domain so at the very least there's that... :)

xauronx4• 13 years ago

I could see mixtapes.io being huge. I have a coworker who is super into that social music listening stuff, I bet that would be a great application for the name.

richo4• 13 years ago

So how are we organising the transfers? Private message?

jtheory3• 13 years ago

I got two emails, one putting me in touch with the person getting my domain, and another for the person giving me theirs.

I've exchanged edofy.com for lb1.net, btw...seems fair enough, as I don't really want either. :)

richo4• 13 years ago

Yeah, seconds after posting I got the same email :)

bronson2• 13 years ago

Yea, I sent lb1.net and dinr.org and I'm not confident I'll receive any in return... human01d.org was registered too recently, no word on faithfulpixels.com (that one at least could host a touchy feely technology or design blog). Ah well, worst case just dehording is a step in the right direction.

I say keep trading until value is maximized: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/12/25/167976196/episode-...

Would love to see the final tally on successfully transferred domains.

samelawrence• 13 years ago

So, now we know who to contact about buying some of these awesome domains... handy.

richo4• 13 years ago

If only there were some convenient lookup service to tell you who-currently-is the person you'd need to contact.

xauronx4• 13 years ago

Some dude was actually spamming people on twitter asking to buy the domains they received.

bryanthompson• 13 years ago

I'm giving away http://dontgobreakingmyart.com and getting http://kickr.in. No idea what I'm gonna do with this thing. DGBMA was for a friend who made blown glass things. I was giddy when I thought up that name for him :)

jamestomasino• 13 years ago

I'm giving away http://notmedia.com and picking up http://nouncd.com/. I'm really not sure what to do with it, but hey, what a neat exchange!

Casseres• 13 years ago

I put up 3 domain names. So far I've only been contacted by one of the people I'm supposed to exchange with and gave my domain name to that person.

While I will give away the domain names that I committed, I don't think I'm going to accept any of the domains that I've been matched with.

If anyone wants:

- http://fusevox.com

- http://lastsongkillsaudience.com

- http://bumbafly.com

... you can contact the current owner and see if they'll give it to you.

jtheory3• 13 years ago

Transferring domains doesn't need to cost another year's registration -- I haven't checked into this for GoDaddy/others, but for NameCheap I know you can "Push Account to User" instead of making them pay to transfer it.

If you're giving a domain, ask the recipient for their NameCheap username, and the authorization code from their push settings (My Account => Manage Profile => Push Settings).

Then go to My Account => Manage Domains => (click the domain) => Push Domain To User

If you're receiving a domain that's already on NameCheap (in the whois info, it'll show with Registrar "ENOM, INC" but -- further down... -- with Reseller "NAMECHEAP.COM"), you can speed things along by providing your own username and authorization code.

danielzarick4• 13 years ago

Great tip. I was hoping people would figure this out on their own, but I should have made it more explicit in the email. This is exactly what I did with the domains I sent/received.

bronson2• 13 years ago

Overall it was fun. For the future:

- run a script to ensure domains actually are transferrable?

- match tld with tld?

- purge the obvious domain squats?

Web Domain White Elephant Exchange has concluded

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