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)

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 :D

 

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!

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!

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

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 :P

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.

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.

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

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.

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 [iCODE]?utm_source=thedomain.com[/iCODE] 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.

First park them.

I thought parking was a dead horse nowadays. I remember making decent penny parking, but its been over 10 years lol. I don't miss it.

Then, evaluate the conversion cost to see if $10/yr is worth it to renew

That it a tricky thing to do. You don't want getting caught dropping a domain that only made a quarter a year parked, that someone may want. My last sale was on a domain name that hasn't resolved anywhere for over 10 years. But it finally paid off handsomely. That said, yes, I have dropped many names over the last few years as it is hard to get $5k on any of them. Let alone reg fee. Times have changed. So I just pay the fee on what ones I like and want or want to sell, and I don't pump them on parked pages, sedo, or the likes. My sales have been mostly organic and off of the whois contact info.

 

edit to add: the reason I do not pump them or list them is because you expose your position to other domainers that tend to bug the crap out of you with lowball offers.

Domain investing is really a very different and separate business. Something I don't know much about. But I'd hate to pay renewal for more than 100 domains, let a lone thousands.

 

I know a guy who does this, he has over 500 Flippa listings, but most are very garbage domains. But he once told me, "it only takes one good sale" - which has a good point. However, I wonder if he made that one good sale yet....

I thought parking was a dead horse nowadays. I remember making decent penny parking, but its been over 10 years lol. I don't miss it.

For the most part, it is. I have a couple domains that make $20/month, but it's nowhere near the $100/mo some EMDs could make before.

 

I park to gauge traffic first, then go deeper to analyze the traffic to see how I can best utilize it. Or, I keep it parked because it just makes sense.

 

One domain I recently moved out of parking to a forum isn't doing so great as a forum because it put it in content safe search on Google, and it was making $25-30/mo. I'm pulling a domain from parking that makes $1/mo (if that), but cost 4x ($4000) to own, and putting this one back into parking (it paid off itself and others throughout my ownership) to see if it does better, after I use it for a month 301 redirecting.

edit to add: the reason I do not pump them or list them is because you expose your position to other domainers that tend to bug the crap out of you with lowball offers.

I'll take lowball offers sometimes because it's what I need to break even due to reg fees on the rest. Otherwise, I'd have to contemplate cutting 10 domains that could sell for thousands or I won't profit at all. You gotta do what you gotta do to stay in business with domain name investing, even if that means taking an ego hit on a name or two here and there for the larger payout later.

But I'd hate to pay renewal for more than 100 domains, let a lone thousands.

Renewal on 100 domains = $1000. You could easily have one domain that a business really wants and sell it for $10,000 to cover domain fees for a decade on the other 100 (or reinvest in 10 good ones) . You can easily see how 1000 domains can work out, for as long as you stand firm, and, sometimes teach them that the domain they want will be a value proposition to them no matter the cost. Sometimes you'll get what you ask, and sometimes you'll meet in the middle. Either way, if you manage the profit right, you have a portfolio that will be profitable.

However, I wonder if he made that one good sale yet....

My last "big" sale was $400 to $7000, but I went lower because I saw the potential in what they were doing and asked for a premium-level account, no matter if they made another offering at a higher level, I'd get too, in perpetuity. Checking up on it, it looks like they made an Enterprise account with an API, which I cannot access. So, I'm checking in on that.

 

Good thing I have email records, because this could go to court for the name back with the cash still in my pocket.

 

I had to contact support just now and it looks like they know what they have to do. :p

 

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Edit: Looks like my "trial period" ends in 20 years now. I'm sure they had to do it this way because they use a merchant for subscriptions, which my account does not go through.

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I have a few domains I've been sitting on that I'm not using, but I do plan to eventually get around into developing them. I don't buy domains unless I plan on building sites for them.

I have the following domains, I bought them long ago some had very good DA that time, but DA can reduce over the time if the domain is not active I guess.

 

adgulf.com

googlebard.today

googlebard.guru

googlebard.club

googlebard.biz

aichatgpt.today (This is I am using now :D )

aichatgpt.guru

seolust.com (Its my SEO tools website, pretty much dead)

 

I have so many domains in different accounts, I can’t even keep track of them all. I must have been crazy when I bought so many a long time ago—I probably watched a YouTube video about domain flipping and got carried away that night. Since then, I haven’t sold a single one, hahaha!

 

I tried using Flippa once, but they charged me fees, and in the end, my domain didn’t sell. :(

googlebard.today

googlebard.guru

googlebard.club

googlebard.biz

Drop them, delete them, or uncheck auto-renewal.

 

These are trademark domains and will never sell unless they have traffic and revenue, and someone willing to take the risk. But, a lot of places prohibit the sale of TM domain names, so it's hard to find that buyer... you have to know who is into it and get in touch with them directly,

 

The best you'll probably get for them is $20... the worst is a C&D and possible lawsuit if they're parked.

Drop them, delete them, or uncheck auto-renewal.

 

These are trademark domains and will never sell unless they have traffic and revenue, and someone willing to take the risk. But, a lot of places prohibit the sale of TM domain names, so it's hard to find that buyer... you have to know who is into it and get in touch with them directly,

 

The best you'll probably get for them is $20... the worst is a C&D and possible lawsuit if they're parked.

oh, really. I bought them when the google bard just started and I was hoping it they will be in high and demand and I will get many requests from people or even companies or even google.

But its scary what you just said, Any idea how I can get rid of them quickly even on cheap rates, I do not want to let them go and expire :(

But its scary what you just said, Any idea how I can get rid of them quickly even on cheap rates, I do not want to let them go and expire :(

My advice is to put in a delete request and take the loss, and never register trademark domains again.

My advice is to put in a delete request and take the loss, and never register trademark domains again.

The absolute best advice you can give. Yes you can register those type of domains. No you don't have a legal right to own them. No you don't want to cross over into trademark dilution issues. It can end up badly.

The absolute best advice you can give. Yes you can register those type of domains. No you don't have a legal right to own them. No you don't want to cross over into trademark dilution issues. It can end up badly.

If they pursue it, privacy protection is released in a UDRP. So, your name will forever live on, and be a stain to your reputation.

 

https://www.adrforum.com/DomainDecisions/1964713.htm

Until recently I used to own a lot of domains, some domains I kept for my future projects, some domains I though would be very valuable in the future, and some domains were for sentimental value. However, renewing domains every year started becoming financial constrains for me. Therefore, I tried selling them, and when there were no buyers I started dropping them. Currently I have 6 domains and all domains are being used for websites. Interestingly some of the domains that I let expire are still available for registrations as no one seem to have taken them.