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

[domaindigger]

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?

 

[lzy]

Restarting the project wouldn't generate that much interest imho..

 

[danielj314]

Hey Everyone,

OUD is not dead!

I just completed a trade with Andres making him and OUD the new ower of DeluxeBurger.com. Check out the details at his blog site:

http://oneuglydomain.blogspot.com/

What this means is that Andres now has a truly "juicy" .com domain that he can go on to trade for bigger and better things.

As a US resident, I'm happy to be the new owner of NQT.us, and have a feeling it will go on to signify NotQuittingTime for OUD as the once center of attention site takes on new life and interest.

As only the talented and eloquent Andres can put things:

"So there you have it, DeluxeBurger.com is the 16th domain to feel the OUD magic. And for those of you saying OUD is dead, I'm going to make you eat your words right after my DeluxeBurger.com!"

Amen.

 

[Pred]

ROFL

Nice to see you back LOL

 

[GeoOwners]

Good luck with the project Andres! Glad to see you didnt give up...many happy returns.



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[Spade]

Unfortunately I think the apathy may have had a larger effect then realized. Less people interested, and clearly some uncertainty as to whether or not the project will be consistent. I had some interest in the site prior to the lapse but frankly at this time, have lost interest.

 

[danielj314]

Certainly apathy has taken hold, but I'm optimistic that Andres can turn things around and regain our collective interest again. He's built a solid foundation and has learned many lessons. If he can build on that, maybe people will come around again to watch and even participate. I was surprised to see that two offers have already come in on the new domain. I didn't expect that and will be watching to see if this new spark can be fanned into a flame. If it ever turns into a roaring fire again, won't that be something?

 

[Andres Kello]

Back on track!

Hey folks, I've traded domains with Tom so I'm now accepting offers for MotorizedHome.com. I want to build on the momentum of the previous round to get OUD rocking and rolling again, so send in those offers!

Cheers!
Andres

 

[Archangel]

Unfortunately I think the apathy may have had a larger effect then realized. Less people interested, and clearly some uncertainty as to whether or not the project will be consistent. I had some interest in the site prior to the lapse but frankly at this time, have lost interest.

I have to agree but I hope Andres the best. He has a helluva lot of work to do; letting the site lapse for as long as it had only dug the hole deeper. One can only wonder if another LLL comes along.

 

[Untitled]

So is this project still alive by any chance??

 

[Coopey]

...even it's not been forgotten, interest seems to have been lost- I was surprised to see this thread re-appear as I'd forgotten all about it.
330+ days until the end of this round according to the timer on the site.

 

[PowerUp]

I really like his concept, and I predict him becoming rich very soon if this continues to be very popular for some reason. This idea reminds me of that milliondollarhomepage too.

I own "a million dollar homepage dot com" and I don't know what to do with it. Any ideas?

 

[Name Trader]

I own "a million dollar homepage dot com" and I don't know what to do with it. Any ideas?

Put pixels on it?

 

[Untitled]

Put pixels on it?

lol! But i don't think it will work anyway! People have to think out of the box rather than repeating the same idea!! It works only once!!

So come up with your own ideas!

 

[G Status]

The dude had 354.net.... dam he's a good trader.

 

[Alan Glennon]

He had 354.net. Now the site is basically defunct.

The dude had 354.net.... dam he's a good trader.

 

[Mr. Deleted]

On Sept. 29, 06 I traded my one ugly domain for ReleaseParty.com with Geoffrey McGill
On Oct. 23, 06 I traded ReleaseParty.com for CelebrityAffairs.com with Brian Raymond
On Nov. 14, 06 I traded CelebrityAffairs.com for VoiceTone.mobi with Ross Alden
On Dec. 8, 06 I traded VoiceTone.mobi for RealitySeries.tv with Tom Rice
On Jan. 1, 07 I traded RealitySeries.tv for YoG.mobi with Ross Alden
On Feb. 8, 07 I traded YoG.mobi for F9Y.com (.net, .org, .biz, .info) with Randy Pendleton
On Feb. 23, 07 I traded F9Y.com for the TriGuard.com set with Dan Mortensen
On Mar. 5, 07 I traded the TriGuard.com set for Consolidate.biz with Andy Kelly
On Apr. 13, 07 I traded Consolidate.biz for 354.net with Simon Moxon
On Apr. 25, 07 I traded 354.net for Casino.rw with Alex Simon
On May 7, 07 I traded Casino.rw for OnlineCasino.im set with Brian Raymond
On July 04, 07 I traded the OnlineCasino.im Set for the Months.us set with Rom
On July 17, 07 I traded the Months.us Set for LBAB.com with Tristan Perry
On July 30, 07 I traded LBAB.com for NQT.us with Brian Raymond
On October 31, 07 I traded NQT.us for DeluxeBurger.com with Dan Mortensen
On November 14, 07 I traded DeluxeBurger.com for MotorizedHome.com with Tom Rice

this guy has traded wierd names for better ones, and then traded them for crazy names.

 

[AussieDomainer]

Yep, there's been some good trades but also some terrible ones. It definitely hasn't moved up everytime. How could you have a NNN.net and then a few trades later end up with a LLL.us

If each trade was carefully considered and made sure that it moved upwards only this may well have worked ok.

 

[likepeas]

Yep, there's been some good trades but also some terrible ones. It definitely hasn't moved up everytime. How could you have a NNN.net and then a few trades later end up with a LLL.us

If each trade was carefully considered and made sure that it moved upwards only this may well have worked ok.

that NNN.net should had really been traded for a far of better domain.

 

[Coopey]

Oh, c'mon it's dead.
Let it rest in peace.

 

[Alex]

Looking back at OUD, there were once some nice names up for trade like Yusu.com that was sold for more than $3k recently. And other very good ones.

 

[Spade]

Yah, no doubt. Looking back some nice domains were traded through OUD, however the site doesnt appear to have been updated in closing in on 3 months.... As predicted, it just started going nowhere.

Justin

 

[RogueWriter]

I like the current name up there, AboutFarms.com.... that could be a nice adsense page, a blog about farm life, or an equipment directory page, that sort of thing.

 

[lzy]

:lol:

I had no idea it was still around.

 

[danielj314]

I have had some e-mail communication with Andres lately and I asked him if he intended to resurrect OUD and he says he does.

Apparently he's had a lot going on....but he promises that it will live again.

So stay tuned.

Dan

 

[Coopey]

Apparently he's had a lot going on....but he promises that it will live again.

Sounds familiar...?

I'm unsubscribing from this thread now, I've gone from mildly entertained, to mildly disinterested to couldn't-care-less. If it comes back, a few weeks later Andres will be back on a project that's going to actually make hime money (and rightly so).