From ugly to $1 million, guy wants to trade up his ugly domain name
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.
From what I get, he's starting with oneuglydomain.com and is going to trade it up until he ends up with a domain someone is willing to buy for $1 million. Anyone can offer any domain they own, and visitors to the site will choose which offer he should accept during each trade. What I was thinking, if this is serious, is that those domains he is trading will become popular from the publicity of this alone (if this even takes off), just like each trader and item that traded with the oneredpaperclip guy got a lot of PR (especially the snowglobe guy). So if one of my domains ended up being voted and I ended up with one of his domains, it would get my new domain a lot of publicity.
He wants to trade his bad domain for a slightly better one, then trade that for a slightly better one, then trade that for a slightly better one, and so on. Eventually he wants to get a million dollar domain.
Interesting idea, but I don't think there's too many domainers who are willing to give into his plan.
Indeed, domains like this will generate much more traffic (due to publicity).
You will also have a surged pagerank as well, mainly because many news sites (with good PR) will have a link to the domain you got saying "blah.com has been traded for blahblah.com".
Why do you think many domainers won't be willing to give into his plan? If the experts won't do it, then why would I? I suppose that's kind of what I was asking with my original post.
rome2ng, I didn't think about the pagerank, I guess that's a plus. Maybe even if my domain is not voted, I could still feed off the pagerank if he links to all offers, not just the winning ones.
Last edited by domaindigger : 09-07-2006 at 11:43 PM.
Yeah, and it wouldn't cost me anything either, it's free PageRank. I just saw that he's already had 2 offers. I've got nothing to lose, so I might just offer one of my domains...or create a new one and offer that. Would be interesting to see where this goes.
whitebark, the milliondollarhomepage also had a PR0 when it started, and now has a PR7 (if I'm not mistaken). Obviously I would be banking on this things PR growing as news sites, blogs, other high pr websites, whatever, link to it. It isn't even 2 days old judging by his first blog post. Either way, I've got nothing to lose by offering a domain I'm not even using. Plus, from the looks of it, it seems he is indeed posting up all offers as links, so that will help the PR even if it's not the winning offer (ekal, yours isn't up there yet...)
I've just offered him my domain SearchMeLawyer.com since I've bought couple days ago another "Lawyer" related domain and I don't need this one anymore.
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.
From ugly to $1 million, guy wants to trade up his ugly domain name 
