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Ask HN: What is your best domain name?

by orenlindsey on 6/6/24, 6:11 PM with 38 comments

• by rozenmd on 6/7/24, 8:43 AM

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

• by cookiengineer on 6/7/24, 6:30 AM

  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.

• by dhruvkar on 6/6/24, 11:01 PM

  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.

• by bnchrch on 6/7/24, 3:54 PM

  Ive got a couple that I'm glad I snagged

  - https://hidden.so

  - https://fantastic.so

  - https://infiniteinterface.com (rebrand coming soon)

  and of course the ones Ive snagged for me, my wife and my daughter

  - https://ben.church

  - https://michelle.church

  - https://paige.church

  - https://paigechurch.com

• by fckgw on 6/7/24, 4:31 PM

  Probably https://wandows.com or https://fckgw.net

  I also have a handful of some pronounceable 4-letter .org and .net domains

• by stephenr on 6/7/24, 8:15 AM

  I bought 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!)

• by romanhn on 6/6/24, 8:31 PM

  I really like the one I found for the job tracking platform I'm building: 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.

• by perilunar on 6/8/24, 6:59 AM

  I have:

  https://bigclock.app/

  https://degreeswhat.com/

  https://sunclock.net/

  https://timepasses.net/

  I also have https://sunmoonstars.app , but haven't done anything with it yet.

• by ldjkfkdsjnv on 6/6/24, 8:29 PM

  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

• by joelp on 6/8/24, 1:44 PM

  Not mine but I know a few people that have these interesting domain names:

  https://ui.dev

  https://earnings.report

  https://data.ai

  https://database.new

• by shanecleveland on 6/6/24, 10:24 PM

  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.

• by wjr on 6/9/24, 4:43 PM

  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.

• by hiAndrewQuinn on 6/8/24, 5:53 AM

  I used to run 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 .

• by fragmede on 6/7/24, 6:32 AM

  http://funky.nondeterministic.computer

• by neom on 6/8/24, 5:44 PM

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

• by nad27 on 6/6/24, 9:59 PM

  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

• by sethammons on 6/7/24, 2:59 PM

  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).

• by mmarian on 6/8/24, 12:31 AM

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

• by etewiah on 6/8/24, 8:44 AM

  https://chattymaps.com

  - happy to sell if anyone interested

• by cddotdotslash on 6/7/24, 2:58 PM

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

• by 11001100 on 6/7/24, 11:35 AM

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

• by altdataseller on 6/6/24, 10:28 PM

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

• by willmeyers on 6/7/24, 4:43 PM

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

• by rinvi on 6/7/24, 4:08 PM

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

• by ipaddr on 6/6/24, 8:30 PM

  .studio? Not worth the registration cost.

• by atsaloli on 6/7/24, 3:31 AM

  opsbootcamp.com

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

• by justhw on 6/7/24, 4:46 PM

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

• by purple-leafy on 6/7/24, 3:32 AM

  Maybe mobileview

• by n2e on 6/8/24, 3:24 AM

  moonball.org

  blog.cafe

  southernindianaissoutherindianasbestkeptsecret.com

• by dotcoma on 6/7/24, 2:16 AM

  dotcoma.it, from the dot-com era.

• by rpastuszak on 6/7/24, 4:44 PM

  potato.horse

  of course!

• by bhu1st on 6/8/24, 8:35 AM

  mindfulthings.com

  Ping me if you want it.

• by JavohirXR on 6/9/24, 9:48 AM

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

• by throwaway211 on 6/8/24, 2:17 PM

  localhost

  I do all my best work on it.

• by ra0x3 on 6/9/24, 3:57 PM

  rashad.wiki

• by yagami_takayuki on 6/7/24, 9:07 AM

  timbrematch.com

  infinityvids.com

  gymmrfitness.com