Would you subscribe to a newsletter sending you available brandable domains?
Hello my name is Andrew and the last 5 years I worked at a branding agency. The time spent here allowed me to have a knack for crafting brandable names, and finding available domains that have the potential to animate great brands. I plan to start a newsletter sending daily curated picks of great brandable names with the .com extension available. Should I pursue this?
Surely within a brief period after sending each email many of the domains will be registered? If that's the case 99.999% of your subscribers will be dissapointed on a daily basis. I wouldn't stick around in a list of sadness for very long.
There's something here, but I don't think a shotgun approach is the right way. Message me if you want to discuss it further. Addresses on my profile page.
Yes that would be one of the issues that I need some ideas with. A newsletter like this would surely attract domain flippers who would abuse the whole freebie model, and would render my ideea of helping the IH community, useless.
You will need to have purchased such domains - and then sell them with something else that provides value.
Maybe $100-200 / domain but it includes initial brand advisory consultation.
This gets your domain paid for with some profit and opens for future consults as your true revenue stream.
Hey @Beamwire
Sounds like a good idea. My points below
1.As Craig suggests, the users will not be happy to find out the domain has already been registered.
2.So you might have to purchase the domain, be transparent to your users that you have purchased the domain to avoid the above point and state the transparent selling price.
3.You could add your branding services as a addon and maybe even help people find great domain names.
4.Maybe a monthly service would do well.
Daily seems like a huge endeavour! I think it'd be interesting to see a weekly/monthly newsletter like this. Daily would put me off very very quickly in my inbox.
That s true, I guess I will let people choose what works for them daily/weekly or monthly.
Maybe.
Hey Andrew : Something to consider - intellectual property (IP). What's the deal when someone uses your idea/name/brand for a business/SAAS/product? Are your subscribers free of any IP claims from you? There are actual agencies who are paid to do this work, so you might be missing out on a revenue stream here. Just a thought. My opinion - don't do it for free... monetize it!
I think I will leave that to subscribers
who should do their own diligence on any existing trademarks tied to any of the name/ domains suggested.This particular niche is already to monetised, from domain catching services, domain flippers and platforms selling names at a premium, I think the indie hackers community needs a simple free service providing value.
Hey Nestor, my assumption is that Andrew already owns the brandable domains in question as well as the logos/creatives for the brands, ala brandbucket.
Andrew, it's a good idea! I've been considering doing something like it myself to augment hotsuto.com! I say go for it!
Any name suggested would be at the regular price - 10/12 dollars. Finding a good name brainstorming is posing to be a challenge especially because of services mentioned by you (brand bucket etc) Those prices are really out of reach for any bootstrapping indie hacker.
Oh damn! That's really cool of you! And I agree, I have no clue how those services are able to move as many domains as they do. I'd totally check if they had an affiliate program in case. Holler at me when you're launching
I would definitely subscribe, I reckon you should persue this idea
Thanks Yuri, I probably will.