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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 • 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

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

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Sm0ke

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

Thx mate, following back :)

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Sherry Day

If I tell you you'll steal my ideas!

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Sm0ke • Edited

funny

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Eric O Okiti

very funny

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Nathaniel Rand

so very funny

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Jackson Kasi

haha๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐ŸคฃโœŒ๐Ÿ”ฅ

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Diego (Relatable Code)

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

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GrahamTheDev • Edited

I have 3 that I currently have that are worth mentioning, 2 of which I don't use at the moment ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ:

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):


๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป.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: ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป.to

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป.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 • Edited

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

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GrahamTheDev • Edited

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

Search Google for โ€œeditor guide dev.toโ€ and it has all of the โ€œliquid tagsโ€ you can use there ๐Ÿ‘

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Thomas Hansen

Hahaha, amazing :D

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Dennis Persson

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

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.. ๐Ÿ˜Ž 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

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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Joe Mainwaring • Edited

Personally, Iโ€™m sitting on about a dozen domains. Most are either variations on my name or pseudonyms, but I also have a couple additional for things like my home and past products Iโ€™ve taken to market.

On the corporate side, I have dozens related to our past and present branding. We only us a small fraction of the total domains, but I purchase the extra domains partly to defend against phishing, and in part to reserve domains should we expand our footprint - say for example, implementing an EU-specific application to meet data residency requirements

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Daniel Sitnik

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

I was almost gonna buy epic.games

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Alexandre Plt

I'm currently holding a few, such as

  • superfola.tech for my portfolio ;
  • arkscript-lang.dev for a language of a the same name ;
  • 12f.pl to do absurd things with DNS (sending custom DNS answers) and hosting personal services

I might or might not buy another one for OnlyCheese, an Instagram/OnlyFans joke