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What domain names are you holding on to?

Whether or not you are making any use of them...

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Sm0ke β€’ β€’ Edited

app-generator.dev/ -> used to migrate AppSeed.us in the future.
invat.eu - means I learn in Romanian
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Thomas Hansen β€’

Najs one, my company - I assume we're in the same business :)

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Sm0ke β€’

Nice tool. You got a new GH * and folower.
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Thomas Hansen β€’

Thx mate, following back :)

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Sherry Day β€’

If I tell you you'll steal my ideas!

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Sm0ke β€’ β€’ Edited

funny

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Eric O Okiti β€’

very funny

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Nathaniel Rand β€’

so very funny

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Jackson Kasi β€’

haha🀣🀣🀣✌πŸ”₯

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Diego (Relatable Code) β€’

Came in here to comment this. Everyone's watching!

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GrahamTheDev β€’ β€’ Edited

I have 3 that I currently have that are worth mentioning, 2 of which I don't use at the moment πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ:

a2z.dev

I have been building this for a few weeks, it will be my personal blog plus a load of resources. Currently unused a2z.dev

How this was available I have no idea, it seems like a prime domain name for any developer resource!


milliondollarkey.com

I bought this on a whim, still no idea what to do with it lol.

The only reason I bought it is that it is part of the million dollar homepage, a little bit of internet history!

I wrote about it here (for those of you not old enough to know what the million dollar homepage was all about):


πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ‘©β€πŸ’».to

This was a silly one!

I bought it to point to my dev.to profile! It actually works - copy this into your URL bar: πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’».to

πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’».to

And obviously, I wrote about that too:

If you want to see hundreds of random domain names people own

I did a silly post where I asked people to share their random domain names and I would come up with a purpose for them.

It was a really fun thing to do (and I even think I nailed it on a couple of them) and some of the things people bought are hilarious!:

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Shashwat Verma β€’ β€’ Edited

Cool one lol. How do I link my post with markdown like this?

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GrahamTheDev β€’ β€’ Edited

It is {% post then the link of your article and then close it with %}

Search Google for β€œeditor guide dev.to” and it has all of the β€œliquid tags” you can use there πŸ‘

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Thomas Hansen β€’

Hahaha, amazing :D

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Dennis Persson β€’

Recently updated my personal page to a blog. Got .com domain and the Swedish .se domain.

Then I newly released some other domain I kept for future use and for my NAS.

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Eric Bae β€’

I'm a bit of a domain junky... I've purchased ~60 domains over the past few years. I know it's not as big as some serious professional domainers, but I bought them thinking that they will become one day.. you know.. unicorns.. 😎 they are more like... donkeys at the moment.. if at all.

But! I did have an idea about a year ago where I didn't want these domains to go unused and idle. I also didn't have time to develop and maintain them, so I created a little tool called Newsy.

newsy.co

It turns your unused domain names into a content aggregator automatically. It self-updates, self-maintains and self-runs! Over the last few months, I've added quite a few features like membership, voting features, SSL, monetization etc.

If anyone is interested, I'd happy for you to try it out!

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Michael Tharrington β€’

I've got the following:

  • synthusiasts.club
  • synthusiasts.org
  • synthusiasts.us

One of these days I'll get to launching my synthesizer enthusiasts community!

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Daniel Sitnik β€’

I have registered covid.gripe.

I am brazilian and "gripe" is the portuguese word for "flu", so it makes sense when you think about it in portuguese.

I initially planned to host a dashboard with Covid data there, but there were already hundreds of them around the internet and I got lazy. Currently I'm just holding on to the domain with nothing planned for it.

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Dhravya β€’

I was almost gonna buy epic.games

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Isaac Lyman β€’

I've been holding onto qg2.work. The original idea was to let people fill out a small form and then generate a 1-page "quick guide to working with me," which would include a name or nickname, pronouns, preferred communication style, an "ask me about" list of expertise, and any workplace accommodations or collaboration pointers you want to disclose. You could generate one whenever you're working with a new company/team/coworker and hand it out so people know how to work most effectively with you.

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Jakub T. Jankiewicz β€’

The best generic one that I can share is hacking.cafe. I also have cool generic Polish domain just.net.pl and ale.marketing (ale is Polish WoW or But).

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