I’m curious. Is anybody willing to share what domain names they own? If you’re anything like me, you’ve acquired a small “portfolio” of names over the years that you haven’t done a thing with . . . Below, you’ll see a few of the ones I bought for myself or for clients. Anybody else want to share? Blake? Connor? Chris? Phil? Richard? Josh? Scott? Jordy? Phil? Jason? Janet? Jeremy?
The best one I missed by two days? www.framd.com I really wanted that one, and it just sold at the beginning of the month? If you’re willing to share, let us also know what great domain you almost snagged.
BESTINSTATE.ORG - Endless opportunities. Name speaks for itself.
FISHR.COM - Eh, who knows? I think I bought after flickr came out.
FISHR.NET
HOGNEST.COM - I’d love to own my own food joint and call it the Hog Nest. I took a page out of the Dukes of Hazzard, which has the Boar’s Nest. A $10 domain was a small price to pay for taking a step toward a dream.
INTERBIKETIMES.COM - Client. Still up today as the blog of Interbike, a company that puts on the trade show for the cycling industry.
LUXOTICS.COM - Who knows. It’s a pun on Luxury and Exotic. Cars?
MADJOLT.COM - Web company … started. Did some business. Got interested in something else. It still exists, but there’s no real web page there.
MADJOLTMEDIA.COM
MYZVUE.COM - User site for consumer electronics company.
RUSSELLPAGE.ORG
RUSSPAGE.NET
RYANDAW.COM - This guy is running for city council in Draper (my town). So, I snagged it before someone else (a competitor or something) snagged it. If he wants it, I’ll only charge him between $1 and $1 million.
SHEEPWALKING.COM - Again, some idiot would probably take the Godin-coined term and run with it as a site playing off his wisdom. I hate that crap, so I bought it and redirected it to his blog post on sheepwalking, which I think is one of the coolest made up words I’ve heard in some time.
SNEKRS.COM - Flickr days back at ya.
SNEKRS.NET
SNIKR.COM - A site with Jokes? Hah. Don’t know.
SNIKR.NET
SOARCOMM.COM
SOARCOMMUNICATIONS.COM
SPINJAS.COM - Blog on PR.
UTAHMONEYWATCH.COM - MadJolt owned.
UTAHTECHWATCH.COM - MadJolt owned.
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Fun post!
Some of my favs that I own:
automatedbooks.com
basementtwins.com
contentdj.com
optimizedcms.com
postandpermalink.com
promptwise.com
smoothharold.com
sponsorized.com
griffio.com
infendo.com
richandgoodlooking.com (kidding)
I’m not really into gather domains… all the good ones are taken (like Google.com, Amazon.com, Yahoo.com …darnit! Why didn’t I think of those first???). Since I started my business I’ve hung onto:
JasonAlba.com (net, etc.)
JibberJobber.com (net, etc.)
TransitioningHome.com (for military that are deployed, and have issues transitioning back home (specifically related to career transitions)
I let these go:
ShouldIHomeSchool.com
ThirdPartyOffshore.com (was going to be a site to help people figure out offshoring programming, with resources and other cool stuff)
and a few others that I can’t remember.
It was becoming too distracting to me… like mental clutter, and my mind was too simple to handle it all :p.
Jason Alba
CEO - JibberJobber.com
:: career management ::
I own all the Chris Knudsen domains except for the dotcom, which is owned by a Chris Knudsen in Seattle who won’t sell it to me. I also recently bought all my kids dotcom domain names. Here’s some other cool ones:
asseenonweb.tv
famousontheweb.com (I’d really like to do something with this one)
mountainworx.com
utahbizcast.com
utahtechcast.com
utahbusinessradio.com
Like Jason, I’ve never been too hip on hoarding domain names… I own connorboyack.com and .net, webvidpro.com (my portfolio), and up until recently owned sustaind.org (but sold Sustain’d to the More Good Foundation).
UTAHICECREAM.COM
utah-concerts.com
utahbloglist.com
ourboard.net
…
Used to own the801.com - but I sold it. Wish I wouldn’t have.
I own several. The only one I’ve sold was one I bought for a startup which was never used: ascendant.biz.
themulti^^ediagroup.com - (replace the dual ^^ with a single M, just to throw off those google search engines and the prospective buyer’s searches) - just got offered $2550.00 for this. i used to be involved with a company which operated under the name, but it hasn’t been active for some time. could use others opinions on this one. is $2550.00 a good deal for it?
Wen
I owned freemacware.com, freemacblog.com, and a few other freemac* sites but we sold them in May. I own and have owned a few others.
I bought rssgrep.com (a geeky name, admittedly) and envisioned a way to filter RSS feeds. Then Yahoo Pipes came along.
I also bought hellularphone.com, envisioning a forum for cell phone complaints and gripes, e.g. usability, billing, coverage, etc. I think I was particularly upset with my cell phone company that month.
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