Domain Names Out Now and Coming Soon

[gothwalk]

Originally published at Now Is A Long Time Too. You can comment here or there.

A couple of weeks ago, I signed up for SnapNames‘ Most Active Live Auctions email. Basically, this service emails me every day around noon, with a list of domain names that are being bid on in SnapNames’ system. It’s fascinating. There are names in there that were plainly grabbed on speculation, names that could only belong to real companies that have gone out of business, and just plain odd stuff.

sniffmagazine.com, for instance, is currently available. These are two English words stuck together; an awful lot of domains are formed that way. You could do a very fine blog about perfume, BPAL, or scratch-and-sniff technology on that domain. Perfume advertising is big business, so you’d have no problem monetising it. A nice modern design, some swirls and patterned backgrounds in the latest web styles, and you’d be off at a run.

Likewise, anglerandarcher.com is available. If I was rich, I’d buy that for my father, because it matches his interests very nicely, and it’s a great domain name. An outdoor sports blog could do very nicely indeed off that, and there are lots of affiliate things you could work in to cover your costs.

And then there’s gangofneon.com. That’s begging to be an EVE Corporation site, or maybe a Shadowrun campaign. Or maybe a flickr/Google Maps mashup concerning neon signs in South-East Asia. I’ve had a notion for years about a blog of photographs of Dublin street ironwork. You know, the covers over sewers and utility maintenance thingmajgits. They say things on them like “Hammond Lane, 1888″, or “Brewster and Major Ironworks”.

s-i-n.net is good to go. Ideas for that one shouldn’t be hard to come by; I’d envision a webcomic about heaven and hell, but maybe that’s the Sinfest influence. Or possibly there are goth cheerleading groups out there who could make use of it. Or maybe we should snag it as a promo site for Graylion.net…

Comments

photos of Dublin street ironwork

[sshi.livejournal.com]

you know, I really should start collecting all my slightly obsessional photos of manhole covers someplace, shouldn't I? I must count them and see how many I have.

Re: photos of Dublin street ironwork

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

::laugh:: A friend of mine's husband actually runs Drainspotting, for just that.

Thanks for the link, Drew. I personally quite like historydeleted.com, which is on the front page. I don't need anymore domains though! I already have them coming out of my ears.