oneprettydomain.com project!

[Christopher Hunt]

I missed the oneuglydomain project so much that I have decided to take it upon myself to revive it in an altered form!

It has launched as oneprettydomain.com and I have simplified the rules and process to hopefully keep things moving a bit quicker and easier this time.

Basically it will be a one week submission period, with a trade to be chosen (or not) at the end of the week. There will be no voting, as I believe trying to have the subjective process of choosing a domain through a voting process hurt the original project. The trade choices, bad or (hopefully) good, will all be on myself, with hopefully much discussion (as before) on the perceived merits or mistakes.

Only easily transferred domains (no restrictive country codes a la .ca or .us) from members of the forum will be considered.

At the end of 52 weeks, (and hopefully 52 trades), the final domain will either be sold or developed. We'll see how discussion goes on that.

I hope we can get back to having some fun with this, and see where it all ends up at the end of the 52 weeks. This project is all about promoting our industry, and raising awareness of this "unknown" and growing part of our modern economy!

The first domain offered is indeed a pretty one - Plentiful.net (enom - renewal feb 2009 - one word dictionary - 9 million google).

So check out www.oneprettydomain.com, for all of the rules, deadlines and other information.

I will post about this in the uglydomain thread as well.

Cheers!

 

[briman1970]

I should make a trading site and get it over with lol The way to make it succeed is to have it run by a guy with a lotta time on his hands. I'm disabled and can't work so I have the time. But it seems like a worthless thing to try, really. It's only worth it in the end and I'm too impatient to wait a few years for that end to happen.

Maybe if you start with a REALLY kickass domain, it will do a little better than OUD and OPD?

 

[Archangel]

Maybe if you start with a REALLY kickass domain, it will do a little better than OUD and OPD?

I doubt it. You could start with a LLL.com and eventually it'll fizzle away. MAYBE I'm wrong. I could be. But who'd be stupid enough to start a trading site with a LLL.com? If there were more of a promise, I guess....

Swapnames...uh I meant Zuho.com?

I was wrong, ya see? It happens.

But look at eBay and the billion auction sites online. There are a few that made it big and a load that hasn't really taken off. Even if there were 10 popular auction sites, there are thousands that exist but hasn't taken flight. And 10 out of a few thousand? Very disproportional.