HACKER Q&A
📣 codingclaws

How many domain names do you own?


How many domain names do you own?


  👤 LinuxBender Accepted Answer ✓
A have a few dozen just for email, hobbies, etc... In full disclosure I don't really own them, I rent them from assorted registrars. I read up on how to become an accredited registrar and quickly gave up on the idea.

👤 jdrmar
About 40, of which I only use a few. It actually got me started on a project: how can I minimize the cost of keeping all of those domains. After a lot of tinkering I could cut costs with a healthy amount, not sure if it was worth all the time I put into it though, haha ;)

Maybe it will help someone out: https://www.dot.bs/registrar-combinations -> copy-paste a list of your domains, and it will find the cheapest combination of registrars for you


👤 nikolay
Over 5,000. To this date, there's no good service for managing and marketing large portfolios. If somebody is interested, we can team up - I have some great ideas, extensive experience, and good branding.

👤 davidsojevic
About 50. A fair number of them are "defensive" registrations for my sites that are prone to bad actors trying to fool my users, though, eg. primary site is "example.com", and I get "example.com.au", "example.net", "example.org", etc. to prevent others abusing them.

👤 JohnFen
Currently, about a dozen. That's down from a high of two dozen.

All of them resolve to somewhere, but I only really use 6 of them.


👤 simantel
Five that I intend to keep renewing, and then maybe another five that I impulse bought in the last year and will let expire.

👤 daemonologist
Half a dozen - personal site, some projects, and some alternate TLDs for those projects which just redirect.

👤 spikey_sanju
~65 domains. used only 8

👤 collingreen
>50, <100

👤 magikstm
260

👤 pestatije
own, literally own? 0