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Ben Halpern
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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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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

haha🀣🀣🀣✌πŸ”₯

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Diego (Relatable Code)

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

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rinegade.sol

rinegade.sol

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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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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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Ashwin Hariharan

I have these:

  1. amiable.ai - For future use for a machine learning no-code tool
  2. One for my tech portfolio πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»- ashwinhariharan.tech
  3. One for my personal blog ✍️ - ashwinhariharan.com
  4. Also bough one under my username/handle - booleanhunter.com πŸ˜†
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Bertil Muth • Edited

requirementsascode.org (behavior driven service development)

diagramsascode.org (generating diagrams from source code)

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Stan Kukučka

I do prefer to not stick to the domain name and I'm completely fine with stanislav-kukucka.github.io

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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 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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Thomas Hansen

Hahaha, amazing :D

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

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jzombie

speaker.app - It's an expensive premium domain from Google, but I figure it's a valuable name.

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George WL

An old portfolio page of mine in a .me domain, and also holding onto a joke domain that I was gonna put a dumb YTMND meme onto.

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Joe Mainwaring • Edited

Personally, I’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 I’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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Athif binu

Mern Stack Developer
The Reason In chosing Tha domain are mane becuce This is passion and They will
used highe Scalle large aplication creation

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Pontakorn Paesaeng

pontakorn.dev I just take the entire domain so there will be only one Pontakorn with this domain.

It would be hilarious if someone with the same name was also a developer tried to use this domain name.

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SVGator

how is this such a rampant thing? lol

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Pankaj Tanwar

I wanted to build a tutorial website around system design and low level design.

lowleveldesignacademy.com
systemdesignacademy.com