What's the best thing to do with unused domains?
I have a bunch of unused domain names, with nothing on it. The classic "I have an idea > a name > a domain name... and that's all folks"
I always wondered what to do with it - for some weird reason I want to keep them.
Park them?
Try to resell them?
Install a wordpress with a bit of content, because it's easier/helps make a few more bucks in case I can sell it?
For instance, I own "illdo.it" - I could just not renew it, but I feel I would be missing something here.
What should I do? Any thoughts?
Thank you!
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I, too, have a bunch of domains. One of mine just sold on Sedo for $1900.00. It doesn't happen too often, but when it does, it's really nice!
Good luck to you!
Thank you for sharing!
I sold one on godaddy last year. I listed and forgot about it, then got a notification that it sold for $1,000. A nice surprise!
I didn't know godaddy had a marketplace... Do you recommend?
My experience with GoDaddy auctions is that it tough to get attention for your domains unless they are really high quality. I tried listing several of my domains which were catching cyberdust. As of now, none of them have sold.
I also think it might be interesting to see whether you could use the domains to host a free tool relevant to the target audience of your main product. I remember reading somewhere that HubSpot has used this strategy to attract users to their app.
Free tools launched by HubSpot:
https://www.hubspot.com/resources/tool
Congrats!
Yeah, it's worth a shot. Took a while for me but it was like USD $5 for the year. Here's a link: https://www.godaddy.com/auctions/domain-auctions
Develop an idea and use that domain, our just list on the marketplace
I bought www.shit.oh
Any idea which site I should create?
I'd say create some content, but not on WordPress. WordPress requires quite some attention on updating, and every now and then it gets hacked nevertheless. I know of popsy (website from notion content), softr and odoo websites where your can host a website on your custom domain for free (with a little bit of non intrusive link/footer linking to popsy, softr or odoo).
And offer it on sedo for 100$ buy now. If somebody wants to buy, you can start an auction and others can bid higher. If nobody else bids, you have to sell it for 100$.
You can also put it on flippa and try to sell it
I started applying this new policy a few months ago:
No renewals for domains I didn't end up using.
Already let a few domains go, and it feels good.
Couldn't resist and broke my rule with one domain I liked too much.
One piece of advice specifically about .com domains:
If it's a decent one, keep it. I let one go a couple years ago and later someone who happens to be another indie hacker, had to buy it from a domain squatter, probably for a couple thousand bucks.
I normally let them expire and joke around in the WBE Space with the fact that I bought a new domain XD