Ask HN: How many domain names do you own?

4 points by dub-io ↗ HN
I'm a sucker for domain names - sigh. How many domain names do you own? How often do you buy them? What is the 'best' domain name that you own?

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Probably around 20.

My best one: Legal18s.com

I totally want to create a portal for "young professionals who want to study the intricacies of law and legal issues that we face today as a nation" just as a joke. I have no real plans for the domain.

Cool! What have you done with the other 19 domain names? Do you use them? (I think I have around 20 too...)
I usually have them for other projects I am working on - rarely do I purchase a domain just to let it sit there, but that's just me.

Not in the market to domain squat... gotta put them to use somehow.

So you're running 20 sites? Nice!
Own about 10. Using half and sitting on the other half hoping I'll have time in the future to build something. My best would be scholars.io
Well, I own about 600 domain names. I'm trying to get into domaining because it can give you a lot of leverage for a future startup. Most of them are single-word domain names in Spanish.

About my best domain... It's a close call between strawball.com, ip.do or leslor.com.

Is the cost justified to just keep these around? What is it costing you per year?
about a couple thousand. thing is when you buy high-quality domain names the appreciation of the asset pays for its registration cost. you can learn to buy and sell domains at namepros.com for free just by reading the forums.
My favorite domain that I own was inspired by the macklemore song "Thrift Shop" [1]: http://SwindledAndPimped.org/. Originally someone had registered the .com, but they let it expire after Macklemore's song was no longer trending, so now my .com just redirects to the .org.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes&feature=youtu.be...

The lines go, "... They be like, 'oh that gucci is hella-tight'. I'm like, yo, that's $50 for a t-shirt. Limited edition, lets do some simple addition, $50 for a t-shirt that's just some ignorant bitch shit. I call that getting swindled and pimped, I call that getting tricked by a business..."

I think the Swindle is the food industry's substitution of bleached & deodorized seed oils for humanity's evolutionarily-approriate fats & oils. (Before the 1950's, soybean oil was used to make paint.)

The pimping is putting women on fake hormones to suppress their menstrual cycles. My ex-wife didn't like birth control because it took her libido away. After we had gone our separate ways, she called to complain that she was still losing 1/2 her month to PMS, and did I have any ideas? I found something for her to try, which she has found remarkably effective.

All the women I've talked to dislike the status quo for women's health. Though some do think that anything is better than getting knocked up...

I try to not buy new domains. I've let a few expire, but there are others that I keep renewing, with the intention to get to them some day.