Unused Domain Names
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So a post was made today where a guy was asking for peoples thoughts on a good domain name for his RAC'esk site. Many good names were given. Then a topic was brought up about people who have registered domains, and are not using them. In my many projects, I have run into a few situations like this where the perfect domain name for my site was already taken, but was just parked. I too am guilty of this. I have about 15 domains registered to me over the years. Some I use, others I use to bring additional traffic to other sites, and others i have simply pointing to an empty page. Obviously I picked them up for a reason, and don't want to just let them expire so someone else can pick them up and park them. So, what's a guy to do? Lets say the guy looking for a good RAC domain contacts me asking for the WeWriteCode.com domain that I have. Should I just give it up? Since, IMO, it's a good domain that could serve many purposes, should I offer to sell it for a few hundred bucks? Or should I just keep it with the hopes of some day finding the time to build a site around it? thoughts?
Levi Rosol Blog By Levi[^]
It depends on what you think you'll do in the coming few years: ->You might need the domain name? ---> keep it ->You won't need the domain name? ---> Do you like it so much you want to keep it for personal reasons? -----> keep it ---> None of the above -------> sell it
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So a post was made today where a guy was asking for peoples thoughts on a good domain name for his RAC'esk site. Many good names were given. Then a topic was brought up about people who have registered domains, and are not using them. In my many projects, I have run into a few situations like this where the perfect domain name for my site was already taken, but was just parked. I too am guilty of this. I have about 15 domains registered to me over the years. Some I use, others I use to bring additional traffic to other sites, and others i have simply pointing to an empty page. Obviously I picked them up for a reason, and don't want to just let them expire so someone else can pick them up and park them. So, what's a guy to do? Lets say the guy looking for a good RAC domain contacts me asking for the WeWriteCode.com domain that I have. Should I just give it up? Since, IMO, it's a good domain that could serve many purposes, should I offer to sell it for a few hundred bucks? Or should I just keep it with the hopes of some day finding the time to build a site around it? thoughts?
Levi Rosol Blog By Levi[^]
Personally, I think domain name squatters are slime, but then again I think a lot of people are slime (car dealers, real estate agents, insurance people, doctors, lawyers, bankers, vb programmers, .... ). If you have no intention of ever using it, let it expire, so I don't have to spend months wrecking the english language further than it already has been. And we wonder why kids can't spell these days... :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
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So a post was made today where a guy was asking for peoples thoughts on a good domain name for his RAC'esk site. Many good names were given. Then a topic was brought up about people who have registered domains, and are not using them. In my many projects, I have run into a few situations like this where the perfect domain name for my site was already taken, but was just parked. I too am guilty of this. I have about 15 domains registered to me over the years. Some I use, others I use to bring additional traffic to other sites, and others i have simply pointing to an empty page. Obviously I picked them up for a reason, and don't want to just let them expire so someone else can pick them up and park them. So, what's a guy to do? Lets say the guy looking for a good RAC domain contacts me asking for the WeWriteCode.com domain that I have. Should I just give it up? Since, IMO, it's a good domain that could serve many purposes, should I offer to sell it for a few hundred bucks? Or should I just keep it with the hopes of some day finding the time to build a site around it? thoughts?
Levi Rosol Blog By Levi[^]
Better keep it.. Reason ? You already said it : it's a good domain that could serve many purposes
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So a post was made today where a guy was asking for peoples thoughts on a good domain name for his RAC'esk site. Many good names were given. Then a topic was brought up about people who have registered domains, and are not using them. In my many projects, I have run into a few situations like this where the perfect domain name for my site was already taken, but was just parked. I too am guilty of this. I have about 15 domains registered to me over the years. Some I use, others I use to bring additional traffic to other sites, and others i have simply pointing to an empty page. Obviously I picked them up for a reason, and don't want to just let them expire so someone else can pick them up and park them. So, what's a guy to do? Lets say the guy looking for a good RAC domain contacts me asking for the WeWriteCode.com domain that I have. Should I just give it up? Since, IMO, it's a good domain that could serve many purposes, should I offer to sell it for a few hundred bucks? Or should I just keep it with the hopes of some day finding the time to build a site around it? thoughts?
Levi Rosol Blog By Levi[^]
Parasite...:suss: I have no sympathy or respect for domain squatters.
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Hi! In one world i would say u sell it off. :)
Shiva Subramanian wrote:
In one world i would say u sell it off.
I believe that's actually four words. ;) Yes I know, a bit pedantic, but I'm like that :) Steve Jowett
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So a post was made today where a guy was asking for peoples thoughts on a good domain name for his RAC'esk site. Many good names were given. Then a topic was brought up about people who have registered domains, and are not using them. In my many projects, I have run into a few situations like this where the perfect domain name for my site was already taken, but was just parked. I too am guilty of this. I have about 15 domains registered to me over the years. Some I use, others I use to bring additional traffic to other sites, and others i have simply pointing to an empty page. Obviously I picked them up for a reason, and don't want to just let them expire so someone else can pick them up and park them. So, what's a guy to do? Lets say the guy looking for a good RAC domain contacts me asking for the WeWriteCode.com domain that I have. Should I just give it up? Since, IMO, it's a good domain that could serve many purposes, should I offer to sell it for a few hundred bucks? Or should I just keep it with the hopes of some day finding the time to build a site around it? thoughts?
Levi Rosol Blog By Levi[^]
Will you really use it? I have a few domains I have projects on the backburner for. Some I know I'll never really get done and so I should just sell them off instead of waiting in false hope for me to pull finger.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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Personally, I think domain name squatters are slime, but then again I think a lot of people are slime (car dealers, real estate agents, insurance people, doctors, lawyers, bankers, vb programmers, .... ). If you have no intention of ever using it, let it expire, so I don't have to spend months wrecking the english language further than it already has been. And we wonder why kids can't spell these days... :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Steve Echols wrote:
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So a post was made today where a guy was asking for peoples thoughts on a good domain name for his RAC'esk site. Many good names were given. Then a topic was brought up about people who have registered domains, and are not using them. In my many projects, I have run into a few situations like this where the perfect domain name for my site was already taken, but was just parked. I too am guilty of this. I have about 15 domains registered to me over the years. Some I use, others I use to bring additional traffic to other sites, and others i have simply pointing to an empty page. Obviously I picked them up for a reason, and don't want to just let them expire so someone else can pick them up and park them. So, what's a guy to do? Lets say the guy looking for a good RAC domain contacts me asking for the WeWriteCode.com domain that I have. Should I just give it up? Since, IMO, it's a good domain that could serve many purposes, should I offer to sell it for a few hundred bucks? Or should I just keep it with the hopes of some day finding the time to build a site around it? thoughts?
Levi Rosol Blog By Levi[^]
Being "that guy" who posted earlier, I would suggest you hold on to the name if there is any chance you will use it in the future or run into someone else that can use it. I have been in the domain name game since back in 1995 and have owned many different names. At no time did I purchase them (back then $35 each) just to sit on them so that others could not use them, it is always that I figured in the future I would use them. Of course, as time goes on, you may find that you do not have the time to bring the sites to fruition. As an example, a few years back, I purchased: www.DotNetFiles.com www.DotNetPrograms.com www.DotNetDownloads.com I had planned to build a file download site for strictly .NET files along with profiles for the companies producing them. The revenue was expected to come from a small charge for "featuring" a programs in a category above the rest with an expanded listing. This was a good idea and the timing was just about righ for the site, but not for me to have time to work on it, I was piled under work. The domain names sat there with a coming soon message for about four years. I decided that someone else might be wanting to use them so I let them expire. They are all now parked for ad pages. What a waste for good domains! This is only one example of several domains I let expire for the greater good that are now used for a parked page ad or pointing to another unrelated domain. The last one I let expire was a domain called "www.therewardsclub.com" which was another project I did not have the time to build. The person who purchased it must have really liked it as they paid for ten years registration ;) Another example, but this time positive was my domains: www.HintsAndTips.com www.HintsNTips.com www.HintsAndTips.net www.HintsNTips.net www.HintsAndTips.us www.HintsAndTips.biz I purchased these starting back in 1998 as it was such a popular term in different publications. The domains laid dormat for probably five or six years until I finally took a week and built the current site. While it does not have a great deal of tips (close to 450), it does bring in 800-1,400 new visitors each week. That translates to a several hundred dollars per year in Google adwords revenue and is a vehicle to promote my other sites. Without HintsAndTips.com, I doubt my blog would be getting as much traffic as it does. So the moral of the story is simply to hold on to them if you feel you or others you might run into in the future can use them. If someone really wants
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Shiva Subramanian wrote:
In one world i would say u sell it off.
I believe that's actually four words. ;) Yes I know, a bit pedantic, but I'm like that :) Steve Jowett
Not pedantic enough, he said world! :p
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Being "that guy" who posted earlier, I would suggest you hold on to the name if there is any chance you will use it in the future or run into someone else that can use it. I have been in the domain name game since back in 1995 and have owned many different names. At no time did I purchase them (back then $35 each) just to sit on them so that others could not use them, it is always that I figured in the future I would use them. Of course, as time goes on, you may find that you do not have the time to bring the sites to fruition. As an example, a few years back, I purchased: www.DotNetFiles.com www.DotNetPrograms.com www.DotNetDownloads.com I had planned to build a file download site for strictly .NET files along with profiles for the companies producing them. The revenue was expected to come from a small charge for "featuring" a programs in a category above the rest with an expanded listing. This was a good idea and the timing was just about righ for the site, but not for me to have time to work on it, I was piled under work. The domain names sat there with a coming soon message for about four years. I decided that someone else might be wanting to use them so I let them expire. They are all now parked for ad pages. What a waste for good domains! This is only one example of several domains I let expire for the greater good that are now used for a parked page ad or pointing to another unrelated domain. The last one I let expire was a domain called "www.therewardsclub.com" which was another project I did not have the time to build. The person who purchased it must have really liked it as they paid for ten years registration ;) Another example, but this time positive was my domains: www.HintsAndTips.com www.HintsNTips.com www.HintsAndTips.net www.HintsNTips.net www.HintsAndTips.us www.HintsAndTips.biz I purchased these starting back in 1998 as it was such a popular term in different publications. The domains laid dormat for probably five or six years until I finally took a week and built the current site. While it does not have a great deal of tips (close to 450), it does bring in 800-1,400 new visitors each week. That translates to a several hundred dollars per year in Google adwords revenue and is a vehicle to promote my other sites. Without HintsAndTips.com, I doubt my blog would be getting as much traffic as it does. So the moral of the story is simply to hold on to them if you feel you or others you might run into in the future can use them. If someone really wants
Rocky Moore wrote:
BTW, your domain might also fit good for a consultant group.
Yeah, there are a bunch of different tech related topics that domain could be used for. I agree with you though. They were bought with a purpose (not just to sit there) so why not keep them until time finds me or a friend, and something gets made of them.
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