From ugly to $1 million, guy wants to trade up his ugly domain name

domaindigger · Sep 8, 2006

I just saw this on digg and wanted some perspective. This guy wants to trade up his oneuglydomain.com for a more "beautiful" one worth $1 million. It's like that oneredpaperclip idea, but with domains.

My question is, does he have a chance or is this just a parody? I have a couple of dead domains I wouldn't mind trading for if I can feed off the publicity this might generate.

Thoughts?

cache · Sep 9, 2006

I bet he will have more traffic to his site because of this "stupid" idea.

domaindigger · Sep 9, 2006

cache, I think that's the idea. If this generates enough publicity, then all domains on offer will benefit from the inflow of traffic since he's clearly posting all of them up.

SpareDomains · Sep 9, 2006

I like this idea, may not work for a million dollars but good luck to him, I just threw 6 domains his way which are not posted yet.

texasgamer · Sep 9, 2006

I jumped on the bandwagon an sent him a name!

NuPagady · Sep 9, 2006

I offered him MillionaireSOON.net - he will be millionaire soon if his plan works :hehe:

ppx · Sep 10, 2006

Don't think it's going work but good luck to him

domaindigger · Sep 10, 2006

Jay said:
I just threw 6 domains his way which are not posted yet.

He posted them up now but there aren't any offers for 6 domains, only for 4. Are you sure you offered them?

texasgamer said:
I jumped on the bandwagon an sent him a name!

What domain did you offer?

NuPagady said:
I offered him MillionaireSOON.net

That's actually a pretty clever domain!

ppx said:
Don't think it's going work

I don't think he's going to get the $1 million either to be honest, but I wonder if he'll end up with one worth 5 or 6 figures...

He's off to a pretty good start, but this could just as easily lose steam rather quickly. If the momentum keeps up, I think he can eventually get one worth at least 5 figures. If he loses momentum, though, he'll probably end up with one worth $1k max, I think. I suppose, again, it'll also depend on whether the media picks up on this and whether it gets linked to by other high PR sites.

CrazyEddie · Sep 10, 2006

I think he might have a chance of pulling this off and here’s why.

Domain names are speculative by nature, as we all know. He's not going to jump from his domain to the million-dollar domain in one or two trades, there might be hundreds until he reaches his goal. Just for thought even if he only ends up with an name in the $XXX,XXX.00 range he still is a winner.

Anyway back to my original thought. There are a lot of domineers that do not agree on value of specific names so as long as he's careful in his choices he can keep flipping and trading names. An example would be that I have a name that I do not feel is worth the name being traded, and make a trade, now another person really likes the name that I traded and trades a name with just a little more value to someone else.

The other thing to be considered is the marketing. This site has the potential, because of this exposure to advertise domains that otherwise other parties might not be aware of their availability. Plus you mix in human emotion, were more then one person likes the same name, and he gets a decent name. Example, a person over paying for names at Snap & Pool, because they get caught up in the moment.

Either way it will be interesting to watch his progress.

FanCube · Sep 10, 2006

CrazyEddie said:
Anyway back to my original thought. There are a lot of domineers that do not agree on value of specific names so as long as he's careful in his choices he can keep flipping and trading names.

He actully does not decide which domain to get, the visitors are going to vote about which domain to choice so it really depends on the people visiting the site and of cause the domains people are offering to trade

SpareDomains · Sep 10, 2006

domaindigger said:
He posted them up now but there aren't any offers for 6 domains, only for 4. Are you sure you offered them?

gave him 6 but one was a .net version of the same name so he said the .com is good enough and the other one was 28 letters so he passed on it. :hehe:

NuPagady · Sep 10, 2006

CrazyEddie said:
Just for thought even if he only ends up with an name in the $XXX,XXX.00 range he still is a winner.

Well he's almost a winner anyway - some domains in the list are much better than oneuglydomain.net, he's about to exchange one less than reg-fee worth of domain to something better.

I have already seen some of domains in the list before. Seems like most of people who sent their domains to him are NP members.

airwav · Sep 10, 2006

I just offered him the US Capitol: 1600PennsylvaniaAvenueWashingtonDC.US
:hehe:
Curious to see if he accepts it.
I have no idea why I regg'd it... :lol:

qO_Op · Sep 10, 2006

OneUglyDomain for OneBeautifulDomain!

OneBeautifulDomain.com is available, if someone wants to offer him that. :hehe:

airwav · Sep 10, 2006

BloGamble said:
OneBeautifulDomain.com is available, if someone wants to offer him that. :hehe:

I saw that, but he says he wants "A beautiful domain"

briman1970 · Sep 10, 2006

Pretty good idea, but waiting almost two months between each trade is absolutely ridiculous. Just thinking about it immediately made me tired of the site.

crazy · Sep 10, 2006

Interesting idea, I doubt that anyone would give him a domain worth one million dollars.

domaindigger · Sep 11, 2006

airwav said:
I saw that, but he says he wants "A beautiful domain"

Someone actually registered that yesterday. Whoever it was, clever guy. :hehe:

One ugly domain guy apparently just got offered to choose a domain from a list of ones worth $2000 each, although I don't know if those domains he gets to pick from are actually worth that much (just cuz the owner says so doesn't mean a buyer would be willing to pay that amount). Not bad though, I guess.

Source · Sep 11, 2006

Far more interesting is the 15K Challenge.

http://www.15kChallenge.com
http://www.15kChallenge.com/blog

airwav · Sep 11, 2006

:sold:
I see he put up my: 1600PennsylvaniaAvenueWashingtonDC.US :hehe:
I didn't think there would be enough space in his column for this...

Ben42 · Sep 11, 2006

domaindigger said:
One ugly domain guy apparently just got offered to choose a domain from a list of ones worth $2000 each, although I don't know if those domains he gets to pick from are actually worth that much (just cuz the owner says so doesn't mean a buyer would be willing to pay that amount). Not bad though, I guess.

I don't think I saw many $20 names on that list besides $2000.

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tengasalud.es

taster-bot.info

clonup.pro

anime-world.to

theillegitimatewhodevours.com

smartstudios.pt

haileyrose.co

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