I have a problem with buying domains that just seem fun or cool to me. For example, I bought `sysalt.com` -- why? because it was registered in 1992 and that seemed cool to me.
What have I done with it? Nothing. What do I plan to do with it? Nothing yet either! Do I still want to get a domain that was registered earlier than 1992 just because it's cool? You know it!
It feels like progress, but doesn’t make a project/product better or even make it more likely to work…the only advantage it has is being easier than useful work.
If you get one good domain, subdomains work really well.
It worked for yahoo, it works for me. I have a couple more domains for things where it makes sense, but [descriptive word].[my usual domain] works for most things and [descriptive word].[my old domain] works as a test area when I think my 0 users might be inconvenienced if I test in production.
The downside of this approach is if one of the side-projects takes off, it’s a real pain to disentangle it from the others (for example, if you want to sell it). I spent several hours (and tons of anxiety) migrating a project to its own domain all to save less than $100 in domain registration fees overall. Just bite the bullet and keep your projects clean from the get go.
Yeah, I don't think I really need to worry about that happening. :)
Anyway, if you buy my whatever project, I'll NS or CNAME the subdomain to wherever you want, plus forward email for whatever@thedomain to wherever you want. I recommend you buy a cool domain and do a redirect.
First 10 years included in the purchase price. Each additional year costs $1000/year inflation adjusted. 15 changes per year, $100/change after that. Obligation to follow domain ownership, purchaser has right of first refusal on selling the whole domain or to claim it before it's let expire. I'm willing to use a high value registrar for the domain to help insure continuity, if requested, but the costs + margin will be borne by the purchaser.
Worst case, pay me more, give me mail forwarding for my important email addresses and I'll move the rest of my junk so you can have my whole domain. :P
This is the way - 99% of my stuff is Caddy-proxied through subdomains to a single Debian VPS and works great even when deluged with the occasional HN-levels of traffic.
I have a problem with buying domains that just seem fun or cool to me. For example, I bought `sysalt.com` -- why? because it was registered in 1992 and that seemed cool to me.
What have I done with it? Nothing. What do I plan to do with it? Nothing yet either! Do I still want to get a domain that was registered earlier than 1992 just because it's cool? You know it!
Buying a domain is pretend work.
It feels like progress, but doesn’t make a project/product better or even make it more likely to work…the only advantage it has is being easier than useful work.
I am opposite in that I purchased a domain only when forced to I.e. to apply for AWS free credits you needed one. someshit.vercel.app bridges the gap.
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I bet they're real good domain names too.
No joke, I have porkbun open in another tab.
Are you me? I managed to not buy a domain name today for a project that I didn't actually need to do, so I'm doing alright.
oh tell me about it apnewman.com. I'm nearly up to 100
get a personally branded one and use subdomains
I should heed my own advice, I've been buying up the TLDs for mine
If you get one good domain, subdomains work really well.
It worked for yahoo, it works for me. I have a couple more domains for things where it makes sense, but [descriptive word].[my usual domain] works for most things and [descriptive word].[my old domain] works as a test area when I think my 0 users might be inconvenienced if I test in production.
The downside of this approach is if one of the side-projects takes off, it’s a real pain to disentangle it from the others (for example, if you want to sell it). I spent several hours (and tons of anxiety) migrating a project to its own domain all to save less than $100 in domain registration fees overall. Just bite the bullet and keep your projects clean from the get go.
Yeah, I don't think I really need to worry about that happening. :)
Anyway, if you buy my whatever project, I'll NS or CNAME the subdomain to wherever you want, plus forward email for whatever@thedomain to wherever you want. I recommend you buy a cool domain and do a redirect.
First 10 years included in the purchase price. Each additional year costs $1000/year inflation adjusted. 15 changes per year, $100/change after that. Obligation to follow domain ownership, purchaser has right of first refusal on selling the whole domain or to claim it before it's let expire. I'm willing to use a high value registrar for the domain to help insure continuity, if requested, but the costs + margin will be borne by the purchaser.
Worst case, pay me more, give me mail forwarding for my important email addresses and I'll move the rest of my junk so you can have my whole domain. :P
This is the way - 99% of my stuff is Caddy-proxied through subdomains to a single Debian VPS and works great even when deluged with the occasional HN-levels of traffic.