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Ask HN: How many domain names do you own?

by codingclaws on 8/22/24, 9:59 PM with 22 comments

  • by LinuxBender on 8/22/24, 10:23 PM

    A have a few dozen just for email, hobbies, etc... In full disclosure I don't really own them, I rent them from assorted registrars. I read up on how to become an accredited registrar and quickly gave up on the idea.
  • by jdrmar on 8/23/24, 2:31 PM

    About 40, of which I only use a few. It actually got me started on a project: how can I minimize the cost of keeping all of those domains. After a lot of tinkering I could cut costs with a healthy amount, not sure if it was worth all the time I put into it though, haha ;)

    Maybe it will help someone out: https://www.dot.bs/registrar-combinations -> copy-paste a list of your domains, and it will find the cheapest combination of registrars for you

  • by nikolay on 8/22/24, 10:11 PM

    Over 5,000. To this date, there's no good service for managing and marketing large portfolios. If somebody is interested, we can team up - I have some great ideas, extensive experience, and good branding.
  • by davidsojevic on 8/23/24, 12:12 AM

    About 50. A fair number of them are "defensive" registrations for my sites that are prone to bad actors trying to fool my users, though, eg. primary site is "example.com", and I get "example.com.au", "example.net", "example.org", etc. to prevent others abusing them.
  • by JohnFen on 8/23/24, 3:05 PM

    Currently, about a dozen. That's down from a high of two dozen.

    All of them resolve to somewhere, but I only really use 6 of them.

  • by simantel on 8/22/24, 10:57 PM

    Five that I intend to keep renewing, and then maybe another five that I impulse bought in the last year and will let expire.
  • by daemonologist on 8/23/24, 12:54 AM

    Half a dozen - personal site, some projects, and some alternate TLDs for those projects which just redirect.
  • by spikey_sanju on 8/23/24, 3:44 AM

    ~65 domains. used only 8
  • by collingreen on 8/22/24, 11:41 PM

    >50, <100
  • by rurban on 8/23/24, 7:29 AM

    2
  • by sloaken on 8/22/24, 10:56 PM

    1
  • by magikstm on 8/22/24, 10:03 PM

    260
  • by pestatije on 8/22/24, 11:00 PM

    own, literally own? 0