Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?
As mentioned in the "What I'd tell myself about startups..." post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9333330), everyone has a set of unused domain names. What are yours, and what did you plan to do with them?
Here are mine.
translateteam.com - javascript based copy/translation editor
forhipsters.com - news site for trendy things
bootstrapcms.com - drag n drop cms based on bootstrap
10printhello.com - for my programming blog
globaldrugwar.com - Stringer Bell simulator
apinest.com - programmable http proxy a la cloudflare
questiondash.com / surveydash.com - a surveymokeylike
dropify.net - a dropbox PAAS
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seenitbefore.com - variant above
> was my last startup idea
Those two are totally contradictory.
just thought it was a funny combination of words. no intended idea here except maybe a trolly site for my close friends.
articlefeedback.com — wanted to build a system for getting feedback about your writing, sort of crowdsourced editing
cureta.com — no idea
logicist.com — logic, or something
townless.com — for nomads, or some such
Used to have way more, but I've been culling them down the past few years.
http://precisiongood.com
Not sure what I will do with either, if anything.
http://gohomecnnyouaredrunk.com — This one actually does point somewhere but I never got around to doing much. Just screenshots of the news networks being stupid.
http://kennedycolectivo.com
http://pointabulator.com — This was supposed to be a tool to figuring out all the possible uses of your airline/hotel points. At its most extreme this is essentially like trying to solve a sudoku puzzle where the numbers can move out from under you.
- bootstraphub.com - free bootstrap themes
- qrcode.io - probably front page for qrunched.com
- webrop.com - drag and drop web builder
- qareeb.pk - location based services
- 9gag-clonescript.com - front page for mememakerscript.com
- mahadazad.com - for blogging
- pincript.com - frontend for pinscriptpro.com
Made many scripts but never focused:
- killmyboredom.com
- mememakerscript.com
- pinscriptpro.com
- qrunched.com
http://www.truesta.com - Possibly a replacement for spreadsheets with built in workflow and auditing. Good for companies that are over reliant on spreadsheets and need to share that data and most importantly keep it accurate.
http://www.expirify.com - domain/ssl cert expiry reminder service
http://www.inhumanely.com - no idea
http://www.signalizing.com - a communication platform
http://www.overawes.com - no idea
http://www.statesideproperty.com - it was supposed to be a Right Move for the US but never got around to it
http://www.swishapps.com - no idea
Mostly rubbish but I quite like things click. I need to stop buying shitty domain names :-/
Edit: Added more info about some of the domains.
There are already a great many companies out there who monitor expiry dates of domains and SSLs; their “slant” is that they send you renewal emails based on renewing the service with them at their inflated fee. Or even reasonable fee, but the idea being that they are capturing business. Whilst they might defend that it is clear who they are and you should know who you bought your domains/SSL through, the fact is that by sending someone an official looking email there are plenty of “oh shit don’t want to lose that, best renew…”
I'd be nervous about getting a name as a bit of a scammy company. I also think that I'd rather people opted in to a service that they derive value from. We could of course still sell domain name renewal and SSL certs most likely by partnering with a domain registrar.
All food for thought...
Back when it was the cool thing to do, I was going to create a multiplayer (2^n player) 2048 using websockets.
- read.io
- tit.io
- fix.io
- foodcopter.com (for when drones deliver your dinner of course)
- burgercopter.com (same reason)
- pizzacopter.com (same reason)
I've developed a simple tool for parking unused domains. Just set your nameservers and the whole inquiry process is automated. Would love feedback! http://parktap.com/
I'm a little confused as to which it is :)
http://30mars.ca - This was an old gift from 2 years ago to a special someone who's birthday's on march 30th.
http://sfew.co - Was supposed to be a shortlink address for Selective Few. Still not using it.
http://branlettedenoel.com/ - This was a xmas card for a card contest. It's conveniently called "The great xmas jerk off"
- beltway.wtf
- startups.wtf
- recy.(link|co|in|info|io) as I had grand plans to do a link curation app
- saltmaster.net
- hostedsalt.com
warning: this post contains sarcasm
- http://subwaytim.es - subway tracking service
- http://thankyouforriding.com - game for coders to optimize operation of a subway system. Thought of this during Boston's terrible public transit struggles this winter
- http://gitforgovernment.org - wanted to encourage city/state govts to put their legislation on GitHub and accept pull requests. THAT would have gone well
- http://enginomicon.com - planned to put my course notes from my mechanical engineering degree online; make a Wikipedia for all types of engineering
- http://everyref.com - created before I discovered devdocs.io and wanted to make a quick ref for coders. Right now you can search HTTP statuses, but the project is pretty much dead; I'm not sure if I even still have the code for it
- http://stupidprogrammertricks.com - place to put little projects and small demos. So far the only demo is a properly-installed nginx server :-P
- http://uwherever.com - wanted to create a place where people applying to college could organize their efforts, see when deadlines fell across colleges, publish their acceptance/rejection for other students to see, etc. As you can see I spent a lot of time picking a name for this
- http://spinner.graphics - planned to spend a quick weekend making a few AJAX loading animations and presenting it with ads, because who doesn't have at least one site that they're only doing for the money?
- http://beer-n-code.com - planned to make a public directory of bars with wifi suitable for meetups. So far only has a mesmerizing ASCII beer mug on it
- beatin.gs
- feloni.es
- comrad.es
- aftershav.es
I'll probably never find real uses for these, but they're amusing to own
getque.com - something like pocket but with a focus on organizing/sharing
- ridiculous.website
- ideafora.website
evernote.com - registered in January 2000. Nope, not mine. But it was funny to see so many of the same ideas (no, they didn't steal them from me), including the elephant "never forgets" logo!