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Ask HN: What is your best domain name?

16 points by orenlindsey 2y ago

What is your best/coolest/rarest/most valuable/most unique domain name? I only have one domain right now, lindsey.studio, but I think its pretty cool.

ldjkfkdsjnv 2y ago
I bought a few .ai domains in 2017 for 70 bucks each. Very basic ones, single word 5 letters or less. Most are worth north of 25k now. Funny thing is I almost let them expire
ipaddr 2y ago
.studio? Not worth the registration cost.
romanhn 2y ago
I really like the one I found for the job tracking platform I'm building: https://rolepad.com https://rolepad.com. Short, memorable and descriptive. In the past I owned the domain name matching my last name, but never ended up setting up email hosting with it and let it go. Also at one point I bought the domain name that in the mid-90s hosted an online multiplayer trivia game I was addicted to (cosmoasis.com). Was going to rebuild it since the player community is still around, but never got around to it, and let it go as well.
- altdataseller 2y ago
  How is rolepad doing? I remembered you saying you were scoping out what the paid product was going to be with employers
  - romanhn 2y ago
    Hey, thanks for remembering! It's been slow-going, but I'm getting close to finishing the employer-side pre-MVP (table-stakes functionality that I can build upon later). For now pushing in the direction of improving upon the communications between the hiring team (whether at employer or third-party recruiter) and the candidate. The email-based back-and-forth leaves a lot to be desired, and results in frequent ghosting on all the sides. Tackling that for now. Got tons of ideas and have had a good uptake on the candidate side, now need to show value for the hiring teams.
nad27 2y ago
I thought nad27.net was pretty clever when I was a 27 year old GIS specialist/application developer. My name backwards is nad. https://nad27.net https://nad27.net
shanecleveland 2y ago
I own the dot coms for my name and my kids and most of my nieces and nephews. Tasklater.com and magazinejobs.com are probably my best domains. Defunct side projects on both.
altdataseller 2y ago
I own a couple but the one thats probably the most valuable that im currently building a future product with is bloomberry.com
dhruvkar 2y ago
I had kar.ai for a few years before the AI craze started. It was at the regular price, I bought it from 101domains. I let it expire around April 2019, thinking it was not a cool tld. Couldn't expect my grandma/non-tech friend to remember ".ai". Right!?? Not sure how much it would be worth today, but definitely more than what I paid.
dotcoma 2y ago
dotcoma.it, from the dot-com era.
atsaloli 2y ago
opsbootcamp.com I didn't even buy it, a friend kindly let me have it, for my training business
purple-leafy 2y ago
Maybe mobileview
7hubent 2y ago
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cookiengineer 2y ago
It's not the domain name that's worth something, it's what you do with it. I've had many domains over the years, and lots of ideas and missed opportunities. If your domain stays a blank page or a corporate blog spam, it won't matter much and it's a waste of money. Make the personal space your own, and build it _how you like it_, not how others would like it.
fragmede 2y ago
http://funky.nondeterministic.computer http://funky.nondeterministic.computer
stephenr 2y ago
I bought https://fuky.ooo https://fuky.ooo a few years ago. It was actually offline for ages but your question prompted me to fix it up again. It does one thing, and one thing only: provides quick access to "fuck you" gifs (if your UA requests with an image accept header it'll just give the image, so it works for things like pasting the url into Slack etc) Oh and I managed to grab <my family name>.family a few years ago after the previous owner let it lapse. I've not done anything with it yet (the family curse continues!)
rozenmd 2y ago
https://onlineornot.com https://onlineornot.com - I built a cute widget for it, and eventually that turned into a business
yagami_takayuki 2y ago
timbrematch.com infinityvids.com gymmrfitness.com
11001100 2y ago
https://boardion.com https://boardion.com - I think that's my coolest
cddotdotslash 2y ago
I managed to snag "wut.dev" (a rare 3-letter!) and have mostly been tossing personal side projects on it so far.
sethammons 2y ago
it is a project that I recent decided to do. I needed to test and validate sending email to international domains, so I got pünicode.com. My end goal is to set up a catch-all inbox so you can also test international local part. The idea would be to send él@pünicode.com and then you could go to a temp (public?) inbox that stores the last message (or few messages).
rinvi 2y ago
i managed to get https://rin.dev https://rin.dev very easy to remember
bnchrch 2y ago
Ive got a couple that I'm glad I snagged - https://hidden.so https://hidden.so - https://fantastic.so https://fantastic.so - https://infiniteinterface.com https://infiniteinterface.com (rebrand coming soon) and of course the ones Ive snagged for me, my wife and my daughter - https://ben.church https://ben.church - https://michelle.church https://michelle.church - https://paige.church https://paige.church - https://paigechurch.com https://paigechurch.com
fckgw 2y ago
Probably https://wandows.com https://wandows.com or https://fckgw.net https://fckgw.net I also have a handful of some pronounceable 4-letter .org and .net domains
willmeyers 2y ago
I like mine: willmeye.rs because it’s my name
rpastuszak 2y ago
potato.horse of course!
justhw 2y ago
i have thumbnail.ai , willing to sell at right price.
mmarian 2y ago
https://hextotailwind.com https://hextotailwind.com does what it says on the tin
n2e 2y ago
moonball.org blog.cafe southernindianaissoutherindianasbestkeptsecret.com
hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago
I used to run https://how-to-host-one-html.page https://how-to-host-one-html.page , that one was really good and actually useful to a lot of people. Nowadays I'd say it's https://build-100-websites.fun https://build-100-websites.fun .
perilunar 2y ago
I have: https://bigclock.app/ https://bigclock.app/ https://degreeswhat.com/ https://degreeswhat.com/ https://sunclock.net/ https://sunclock.net/ https://timepasses.net/ https://timepasses.net/ I also have https://sunmoonstars.app https://sunmoonstars.app , but haven't done anything with it yet.
bhu1st 2y ago
mindfulthings.com Ping me if you want it.
etewiah 2y ago
https://chattymaps.com https://chattymaps.com - happy to sell if anyone interested
joelp 2y ago
Not mine but I know a few people that have these interesting domain names: https://ui.dev https://ui.dev https://earnings.report https://earnings.report https://data.ai https://data.ai https://database.new https://database.new
throwaway211 2y ago
localhost I do all my best work on it.
neom 2y ago
http://420.pizza http://420.pizza and http://myb.ong http://myb.ong for sure
- deleted 2y ago
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JavohirXR 2y ago
not mine, but love these two: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
ra0x3 2y ago
rashad.wiki
wjr 2y ago
https://warunex.pl https://warunex.pl - a play on words for a weather forecasting service for kitesurfers in Poland. A lot of companies in the early 90s in Eastern Europe ended their brand name with "EX", exp: Drutex, Critonex etc.

16 points by orenlindsey 2y ago

What is your best/coolest/rarest/most valuable/most unique domain name? I only have one domain right now, lindsey.studio, but I think its pretty cool.

ldjkfkdsjnv 2y ago

I bought a few .ai domains in 2017 for 70 bucks each. Very basic ones, single word 5 letters or less. Most are worth north of 25k now. Funny thing is I almost let them expire

ipaddr 2y ago

.studio? Not worth the registration cost.

romanhn 2y ago

I really like the one I found for the job tracking platform I'm building: https://rolepad.com https://rolepad.com. Short, memorable and descriptive. In the past I owned the domain name matching my last name, but never ended up setting up email hosting with it and let it go. Also at one point I bought the domain name that in the mid-90s hosted an online multiplayer trivia game I was addicted to (cosmoasis.com). Was going to rebuild it since the player community is still around, but never got around to it, and let it go as well.

altdataseller 2y ago
How is rolepad doing? I remembered you saying you were scoping out what the paid product was going to be with employers
- romanhn 2y ago
  Hey, thanks for remembering! It's been slow-going, but I'm getting close to finishing the employer-side pre-MVP (table-stakes functionality that I can build upon later). For now pushing in the direction of improving upon the communications between the hiring team (whether at employer or third-party recruiter) and the candidate. The email-based back-and-forth leaves a lot to be desired, and results in frequent ghosting on all the sides. Tackling that for now. Got tons of ideas and have had a good uptake on the candidate side, now need to show value for the hiring teams.

nad27 2y ago

I thought nad27.net was pretty clever when I was a 27 year old GIS specialist/application developer. My name backwards is nad. https://nad27.net https://nad27.net

shanecleveland 2y ago

I own the dot coms for my name and my kids and most of my nieces and nephews. Tasklater.com and magazinejobs.com are probably my best domains. Defunct side projects on both.

altdataseller 2y ago

I own a couple but the one thats probably the most valuable that im currently building a future product with is bloomberry.com

dhruvkar 2y ago

I had kar.ai for a few years before the AI craze started. It was at the regular price, I bought it from 101domains. I let it expire around April 2019, thinking it was not a cool tld. Couldn't expect my grandma/non-tech friend to remember ".ai". Right!?? Not sure how much it would be worth today, but definitely more than what I paid.

dotcoma 2y ago

dotcoma.it, from the dot-com era.

atsaloli 2y ago

opsbootcamp.com I didn't even buy it, a friend kindly let me have it, for my training business

purple-leafy 2y ago

Maybe mobileview

7hubent 2y ago

[dead]

cookiengineer 2y ago

It's not the domain name that's worth something, it's what you do with it. I've had many domains over the years, and lots of ideas and missed opportunities. If your domain stays a blank page or a corporate blog spam, it won't matter much and it's a waste of money. Make the personal space your own, and build it _how you like it_, not how others would like it.

fragmede 2y ago

http://funky.nondeterministic.computer http://funky.nondeterministic.computer

stephenr 2y ago

I bought https://fuky.ooo https://fuky.ooo a few years ago. It was actually offline for ages but your question prompted me to fix it up again. It does one thing, and one thing only: provides quick access to "fuck you" gifs (if your UA requests with an image accept header it'll just give the image, so it works for things like pasting the url into Slack etc) Oh and I managed to grab <my family name>.family a few years ago after the previous owner let it lapse. I've not done anything with it yet (the family curse continues!)

rozenmd 2y ago

https://onlineornot.com https://onlineornot.com - I built a cute widget for it, and eventually that turned into a business

yagami_takayuki 2y ago

timbrematch.com infinityvids.com gymmrfitness.com

11001100 2y ago

https://boardion.com https://boardion.com - I think that's my coolest

cddotdotslash 2y ago

I managed to snag "wut.dev" (a rare 3-letter!) and have mostly been tossing personal side projects on it so far.

sethammons 2y ago

it is a project that I recent decided to do. I needed to test and validate sending email to international domains, so I got pünicode.com. My end goal is to set up a catch-all inbox so you can also test international local part. The idea would be to send él@pünicode.com and then you could go to a temp (public?) inbox that stores the last message (or few messages).

rinvi 2y ago

i managed to get https://rin.dev https://rin.dev very easy to remember

bnchrch 2y ago

Ive got a couple that I'm glad I snagged - https://hidden.so https://hidden.so - https://fantastic.so https://fantastic.so - https://infiniteinterface.com https://infiniteinterface.com (rebrand coming soon) and of course the ones Ive snagged for me, my wife and my daughter - https://ben.church https://ben.church - https://michelle.church https://michelle.church - https://paige.church https://paige.church - https://paigechurch.com https://paigechurch.com

fckgw 2y ago

Probably https://wandows.com https://wandows.com or https://fckgw.net https://fckgw.net I also have a handful of some pronounceable 4-letter .org and .net domains

willmeyers 2y ago

I like mine: willmeye.rs because it’s my name

rpastuszak 2y ago

potato.horse of course!

justhw 2y ago

i have thumbnail.ai , willing to sell at right price.

mmarian 2y ago

https://hextotailwind.com https://hextotailwind.com does what it says on the tin

n2e 2y ago

moonball.org blog.cafe southernindianaissoutherindianasbestkeptsecret.com

hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago

I used to run https://how-to-host-one-html.page https://how-to-host-one-html.page , that one was really good and actually useful to a lot of people. Nowadays I'd say it's https://build-100-websites.fun https://build-100-websites.fun .

perilunar 2y ago

I have: https://bigclock.app/ https://bigclock.app/ https://degreeswhat.com/ https://degreeswhat.com/ https://sunclock.net/ https://sunclock.net/ https://timepasses.net/ https://timepasses.net/ I also have https://sunmoonstars.app https://sunmoonstars.app , but haven't done anything with it yet.

bhu1st 2y ago

mindfulthings.com Ping me if you want it.

etewiah 2y ago

https://chattymaps.com https://chattymaps.com - happy to sell if anyone interested

joelp 2y ago

Not mine but I know a few people that have these interesting domain names: https://ui.dev https://ui.dev https://earnings.report https://earnings.report https://data.ai https://data.ai https://database.new https://database.new

throwaway211 2y ago

localhost I do all my best work on it.

neom 2y ago

http://420.pizza http://420.pizza and http://myb.ong http://myb.ong for sure

deleted 2y ago
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JavohirXR 2y ago

not mine, but love these two: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

ra0x3 2y ago

rashad.wiki

wjr 2y ago

https://warunex.pl https://warunex.pl - a play on words for a weather forecasting service for kitesurfers in Poland. A lot of companies in the early 90s in Eastern Europe ended their brand name with "EX", exp: Drutex, Critonex etc.