Domains you don't know what to do with?

[Arantor]

I have collected domains over the years, and some of them I have some weird sentimentality for because despite not using them, and the original project with the name it was bought for long since evaporating for various reasons... I still have domains I don't know what to do with.

Firstly, is it just me that has this problem?

Secondly, if I said the following domains, what would you imagine they contain? (They all currently contain nothing. Some of these I own more than just the TLD listed here.)
enchantedtofu.com
unexpected.ly
questforstory.org
monolithforever.com
adventuresinthought.com
wordowl.com
penfolio.net

I don't need to get rid of them but I'm thinking it's about time I had a clean out of things that I'm not ever actually going to use. For example, I currently still own workmonth.com but the service that was going to be has lost the one user I knew I'd have had for it (because they've moved jobs in their company and there's no point building out the full scale service beyond the little silly prototype they were using)

(I suppose part of the problem is that I'm in the middle of a multi-month funk and trying to let go of baggage might unlock whatever it is that's been giving me trouble. I am doing this not only for my domains but subscriptions, products in the house I no longer need/want etc. as part of a general clear-out)

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I have collected domains over the years, and some of them I have some weird sentimentality for because despite not using them, and the original project with the name it was bought for long since evaporating for various reasons... I still have domains I don't know what to do with.

Firstly, is it just me that has this problem?

Secondly, if I said the following domains, what would you imagine they contain? (They all currently contain nothing. Some of these I own more than just the TLD listed here.)
enchantedtofu.com
unexpected.ly
questforstory.org
monolithforever.com
adventuresinthought.com
wordowl.com
penfolio.net

I don't need to get rid of them but I'm thinking it's about time I had a clean out of things that I'm not ever actually going to use. For example, I currently still own workmonth.com but the service that was going to be has lost the one user I knew I'd have had for it (because they've moved jobs in their company and there's no point building out the full scale service beyond the little silly prototype they were using)

(I suppose part of the problem is that I'm in the middle of a multi-month funk and trying to let go of baggage might unlock whatever it is that's been giving me trouble. I am doing this not only for my domains but subscriptions, products in the house I no longer need/want etc. as part of a general clear-out)

If you had asked me this back during AAF 1.0, I would have given you quite the list, LOL, and I think there were a few posts about that.

unexpected.ly is a good one! Maybe make that into a "The Onion" type satire news

My list:
artbyshawn.com
bluffage.com (a word I made up in my hiking gig)
disastertopics.com
hikefortrash.com
inboxbuilders.com
listupgrade.com
membershipboost.com
onlinecommunitymakers.com
openthreatreport.com
paidcommunity.guide
paidcommunuityguide.com (me being old and hesitant about these new fancy domains LOL)
propopsintel.com
somethinghorrifying.com
wildernessfeast.com
xenadmins.com

That's my whacky list!

 

[Arantor]

If you had asked me this back during AAF 1.0, I would have given you quite the list, LOL, and I think there were a few posts about that.

During that era I owned over 200 domains. Now it's less than 40... I may be kicking the habit!

Maybe make that into a "The Onion" type satire news

You're actually the second person to suggest this to me but honestly I don't think I can do the concept justice because partially we're living in a world now where it's increasingly hard to tell satire from serious (because we've passed the point of unserious), and partially because that's not really my writing style.

Some interesting domains in the list, hope to see some of them turn into real sites one day!

 

[Shawn Gossman]

During that era I owned over 200 domains. Now it's less than 40... I may be kicking the habit!


You're actually the second person to suggest this to me but honestly I don't think I can do the concept justice because partially we're living in a world now where it's increasingly hard to tell satire from serious (because we've passed the point of unserious), and partially because that's not really my writing style.

Some interesting domains in the list, hope to see some of them turn into real sites one day!

Yeah, back then I had hundreds of domains as well.

I try to keep the list down as much as I can, mainly because I give myself too many web projects and never get the other ones done LOL

 

[Arantor]

I try to keep the list down as much as I can, mainly because I give myself too many web projects and never get the other ones done LOL

I am in this post and I do not like it much

 

[Cedric]

I tend not to renew it once a year has passed and nothing is done with it. It’s like at home, we sometimes lose certain objects and randomly find them again after a year or so. Because we didn’t miss them or need them, we throw them in the bin, as part of cleaning.

I apply the same to domains. I tried selling them and occasionally you can sell some, but most of the times they’re worthless to anyone else.

enchantedtofu.com - sounds like a witchcraft rpg.
unexpected.ly - cool domain, but no idea.
questforstory.org - again, rpg.
monolithforever.com - monolith was/is a game developer, so a fan based community.
adventuresinthought.com - a website to browse and book adventures.
wordowl.com - some mind games related to words.
penfolio.net - a writers portfolio.

 

[Arantor]

Interestingly, questforstory.org wasn’t for an RPG but a blog about Sierra (and other) adventure games, in particular it’s a play on Quest for Glory, a series from Sierra, and I wanted to focus on the storytelling etc.

Monolith Forever started out as a semi-joke on a forum I used to visit until they turned an uncomfortable level of political I don’t want to deal with (you can ignore an amount of it when it’s not everywhere on the forum), where a lot of movement recently has been about going serverless and microservices, rather than building a single master app (a monolith) which I’m firmly in favour of. Since I’m not in favour of microservices for most apps, I remain #monolithforever. I’ve thought about whether it might be some kind of blog talking about app design and engineering but I think I’d run out of content since most of what’s actually interesting that I’ve built over the years is under NDA.

wordowl.com used to be a search engine for online comics (e.g. xkcd)

I don’t even remember how I ended up buying Enchanted Tofu any more, but I loved the name so I’ve kept it in case I ever have another idea for it.

 

[Cloaked]

There was a time I hoarded domains too. Have paired them down over the years. These are the ones I own but don't use. Yet.

forumdirectory.site
forumdirectory.xyz
forumlinks.directory
forumadmins.org
msnn.online
msnn.tech
adminszone.com
sucksbbs.net
freepchelp.co.uk

 

[CTS]

Seems like all the goats keep a catalog lol.

I do too. Still trying to decide which domain/genre to apply to my next forum. I have some good ones, and back in the day I would have had many of them hosting a forum at once.

 

[frm]

During that era I owned over 200 domains. Now it's less than 40... I may be kicking the habit!

I almost broke 10,000 domains (com, net, org, no cheap or freebies 99 cent xyzs) quite a few years ago, but I'm sitting under 1000 now, trimming the fat and selling way below asking to break even, as renewals were getting to me even with $1000~ sales.

I still have domains I don't know what to do with.

First park them. I would suggest Bodis. This can reveal if they make enough in the year to renew them. If they can make renewal fees, no reason to get rid of them when you can slap a $5000 price tag on them.

If they don't get renewal, but still traffic, forward them to a project that you want traffic to go to with ?utm_source=thedomain.com affixed to it so that you can see if they convert on the project. Then, evaluate the conversion cost to see if $10/yr is worth it to renew as you could get 3 members a year from one domain, which could arguably be worth the $3.33 you "paid" for it.