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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>[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.<p>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*<p>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 <i>am</i> "squatting", in a sense, in order to prevent competitors infringing on my brand.<p><i>Sorry for the formatting.. too lazy to fix it, but actually realized it doesn't look too bad as a horizontal list anyways..</i>
Has anyone considered changing their parked domains to say:<p>"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."
Good idea.<p>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.<p>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.
I'll go first, hoping that karma is more than an int next to my name:<p>lancelist.com / lancelist.net / lancelist.co.uk<p>bookafreelance.com / bookafreelance.co.uk<p>flatplan.net<p>zeditorial.com / zeditorial.co.uk
buyitwhen.com<p>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.<p>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.
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.<p>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 <i>don't</i> really think it is a good idea, but it's something to consider.
0spy.com<p>american-idol-online.com ( has gone through multiple ideas, but none have taken )<p>cheaptightwad.com ( was a product sales site based on the pronto.com api )<p>everythingmicrosoft.com<p>gconq.com ( was going to be an online game )<p>hddvdtech.com ( ha ha - gonna let that one expire. )<p>hotwaterinteractive.com ( meant for steam game development )<p>imvote.com ( never did anything with it )<p>rssgoogle.com<p>txt2sms.com<p>wiidynamics.com<p>wiiphysics.com<p>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...<p>AndyApp.cm
AndyApps.com
AndyDev.com
AhayStack.com (think mahalo)
AGoodProblem.com<p><pre><code> (like having too many sales, not enough inventory)
</code></pre>
FastRapid.com (dev company?)
HelpStopJunkmail.com (info site)
LogicRandom.com ( a little logic + random = genius?)
MobRally.com - (mobile social networking)
SEOdeft.com<p>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.<p><pre><code> gowiki.net
swound.com
thumbnote.com
thumbwiki.com
</code></pre>
(edit: one gone, removed. the four above are still up for grabs. Will trade for a donation to EFF or Wikipedia)
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.<p>My list is too long to post, but you can check it out at <a href="http://btlventures.com/domains/" rel="nofollow">http://btlventures.com/domains/</a> . I'm happy to lease/loan these domains to someone on the cheap who wants to use them for a good project.
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.<p>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<p><a href="https://auctions.godaddy.com/trpHome.aspx?t=16" rel="nofollow">https://auctions.godaddy.com/trpHome.aspx?t=16</a>
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 had two domain names reserved for some projects<p>nukanon.com
extrophos.com<p>and now they are available for free. I'll tell you their story if you register them :D<p>currently I'm reserving only 'local' domain names which are mine forever. unused are<p>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:<p><pre><code> meetthedress.com
hackmyjob.com
fragtweet.com / tweetfrag.com (Has an app on it, needs more work though.)</code></pre>
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.
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: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480858" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480858</a>
linux-inside.com.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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:<p><a href="http://tinyarro.ws/info/custom/" rel="nofollow">http://tinyarro.ws/info/custom/</a>
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...<p>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<p>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:<p>ListLocal.com<p>CheapSwap.com<p>WildOnCampus.com<p>SaleMetrics.com
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 <a href="http://www.dcrowd.com/t_logo/dcrowd_logo_table.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.dcrowd.com/t_logo/dcrowd_logo_table.png</a><p>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.
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!<p>Currently, the only domain I'm really sitting on is:<p>www.hackershabitat.com<p>Currently infested by 4789 bots, and hasn't been touched in over a year. I just don't know what to do with it.
Very awesome idea. It's super cool seeing so many folks trading, selling, and even <i>giving away</i> domains to other hackers looking to start a project.<p>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)<p>its available<p>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?
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:<p><a href="http://pastebin.com/m1742e685" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/m1742e685</a><p>Hit me up if you're interested.
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:<p>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.<p>topictwits.com
The idea was basically wefollow.com, but then that got released and so I forgot about it.<p>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.
baddeveloper.org<p>coderepo.net<p>manphp.com<p>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.
I recently abandoned a gift registry related app that accommodated custom subdomains ala basecamp:<p>giftofile.com<p>presentsfor.us<p>knotlist.com<p>giftquake.com<p>registrylist.info<p>showerlist.com<p>wishalistic.com<p>myregistryspace.com
aggregatedesign.com<p>buyjives.com<p>campusai.com<p>djangobits.com<p>everyday(desi|arab|latino).com<p>gamefav.com<p>gradschoolrejects.com<p>instantgolfclap.com<p>joblike.com<p>linktard.com<p>nfektus.com<p>ngamr.com<p>sofound.com<p>startmyself.com<p>startupyours.com<p>Believe it or not, I had ideas for all of these domains. May resurrect a couple when I get some free time..
flagsfororphans.com/org<p>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.)
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.<p>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.<p>foos-hack.com (currently just a placeholder, never had any great ideas for this one.)<p>authentipede.com
menfacingdivorce.com<p>menseekingdivorce.com<p>womenfacingdivorce.com<p>womenseekingdivorce.com<p>(We were going to call our cheesy 90's cover band "men facing divorce" I got a little register-happy.)
tweatir.com<p>tweetcore.com/net/org/mobi/info (have a half developed twitter app to go with it if someone wants to buy and take over)<p>dormvoice.com<p>hub9.com/org/net/mobi/info<p>bsgfan.com<p>unusuallysized.com
tumblelogs.com<p>debatist.com<p>influencetree.com<p>listlearn.com<p>skatetrends.com<p>vacationite.com<p>weshould.com<p>I also have tumblelog.com which could definitely be put to better 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.
idoh.net<p>idoh.org<p>andperse.com<p>ballerinc.com<p>openappled.com<p>vimpressive.com<p>wikkey.com<p>They all have some idea for a site behind them, just haven't gotten around to it.
lifetagg.com<p>evrware.com<p>merberati.com<p>nerderat.us<p>yasurl.com<p>I must confess that I registered all of these domains while intoxicated.<p>[edit: spacing]
Good idea, I've been letting domains expire all year long.<p>amateurhour.org just expired, but I could renew it if someone wanted it.<p>trrd.org, trrrd.com/org, nichekitsch.com, enoughnow.org and w9gfo/0.org are the only ones left, I think.
karmr.com (and karmr.net)<p>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.
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".<p>That this is the best start-up idea I've ever had would explain my current day job...
Idork.com<p>YourGodIsDead.com<p>BinaryShit.com<p>Reordertone.com<p>Worldwideshit.com<p>NSATT.net<p>ShiTv.com<p>You can probably tell that my weekend projects may involve alcohol.
adz4.com<p>realityinvasion.com<p>rentacal.com (had an idea I never finished)<p>iwearyourtshirt.com (blatent cybersquatting)<p>stolenfocus.com (ex photoblog)<p>weightmonkey.com (half arsed attempt)<p>swearalot.com (stupid site)<p>fuelsaving-guide.com (ebook?)<p>droitwich.me (my local town)