Ben Halpern

Posted on May 5, 2020

What domain names are you holding on to?

#watercooler #discuss

Top comments (74)

I have a few with my name in that're just parked :)

Recently purchased thisisweerd.co.uk , and thisisweird.co.uk ... to make use of my awesome Dutch name! Haha. Will be using it as my portfolio moving forward - just need to rebuild it :)

David Quintero 📿 • May 5 '20

You're Weerd! 😝

𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐝 • May 6 '20

Ben Halpern • May 5 '20

😂

𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐝 • May 5 '20

It's great isn't it?! Husband demands full credit for it XD

JayDeeeee • May 5 '20

It definitely is! :D

Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • May 5 '20

There is only sleepy cat.

Corey McCarty • May 7 '20

I really hope that you use Weerd as your primary and use weird as a redirect to it.

Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • May 5 '20

bathbombsformoms.com

Ben Halpern • May 5 '20

😄

Bobby Iliev • May 5 '20

bobbyiliev.com -> my personal blog
quizapi.io -> new project that I've just finished working on
serverenthusiast.com -> this project is still in my backlog
iskam.website -> a small web dev agency that I own

Thomas Bnt ☕ • May 5 '20

Quizapi is very nice !

Bobby Iliev • May 5 '20

Thanks Thomas!

It is still in beta, a lot more features are coming along!

Glenn Carremans • May 5 '20

It took me 3 months to acquire it, owner didn't want to sell and then let it expire, but I am now the proud owner of "isphpdead.com".
I haven't done anything with it yet but I was thinking to make something like Is Ruby Dead?

𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐝 • May 5 '20

Definitely should!

Ben Sinclair • May 5 '20

Still got the.littlest.website.

Still don't know what I'll do with it.

Aleksandr Hovhannisyan • May 5 '20

Make it smaller.

Nathan Englert • May 6 '20

😂

Madza • May 6 '20 • Edited

make it simpler than x.com
check the source, it's amazing

Christian Wolf • May 7 '20

pure poetry in code.

Corey McCarty • May 7 '20

smallest fonts ever, lorem ipsem is fine

Matt Studdert • May 5 '20

Haha, good question! I actually let a couple expire recently, which felt good. However, I'm still holding onto healthier.dev.

I've got some vague notion of an open-source project where developers help each other to get healthier. Doubt anything will come of it but it's an idea that interests me!

Alex Lab • May 6 '20

alexlab.me => My personal site
javascript-quiz.com/ => A PWA site with quiz about JS, great to learn and train for a job on culture

Unfinished projects:
itsfermenting.com => Should be a blog about fermentation and cooking
instruos.com/ => A website for online courses with part of a price that goes to charities

David Quintero 📿 • May 5 '20

17Style.com
wavefunction.xyz

The first one I've owned since I was 17. Still under a 10 year registration until 2023. That's how long I have to come up with an idea for it. 😋

I used to have the .io of the second one, but those are expensive. It was just cool from a quantum theory perspective: input/output. Collapse wavefunction. Thought it'd be cool for some sort of startup incubator. Something about creativity finding success. ⚛️

Charanjit Chana • May 6 '20

Haha, I feel your pain. I just let a 13 year old domain expire: beunequaled.com

With the best will in the world, I just couldn't come up with a good purpose for it. It's a shame because originally it had pretty good traffic when it first launched but for about 10 years it was effectively dead. Decided to give up on it and focus on more realistic projects...

Charanjit Chana • Jun 16 '20

And I finally shipped one! \o/

sitejoy.dev

On to the next domain now :D

auguscurtis • Dec 11 '20

Inte r e s t i n g ! Good Post

Garrett Green • May 5 '20

thisplaylistfucks.com [redirects to a spotify playlist]
tori-garrett.com | garrett-tori.com [future home(s) of my fiancée && my's wedding website]
garrettgreen.me [personal portfolio]
yournextgreatemployee.com [been sitting on it for a few years, kind of hoped I'd sell it or put it to better use by now - still waiting for the right idea or chance to sell]

Andrew Reese • May 5 '20

Playlist fucks isn't working for me :3

Garrett Green • May 6 '20

thanks for the heads up!

Alex Lakatos 🥑 • May 5 '20

I've got puns.dev and put it to good use :D

avocados.dev is coming to a browser near you soon I hope :D

Harsh Shandilya • May 7 '20

I have fantastic indecision when it comes to domains so I keep hopping across the TLD spectrum. I first bought msfjarvis.me, got tired of it and then let it expire. Then moved on to msfjarvis.website for a brief period, finally settling on msfjarvis.dev. I still own msfjarvis.website to redirect people to the new domain, and it still gets about ~10% of the hits my .dev domain does so clearly the renewal was a smart choice...

Lev Lazinskiy • May 7 '20

Too many. 😭

I had this horrible habit of buying a domain name every time I had an idea for something at 2am. Now I am waiting for them all to expire.

I am happy I stopped doing this, now I put things as a subdomain and don't buy a proper domain until I have some sort of MVP and at least 1 user that I don't personally know. :)