

Tell HN: I'm giving 4 domains away to a good home - andr
http://alek.posterous.com/4-domains-free-to-a-good-home
You could also post your pitch as a comment here.
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petercooper
I gave away a bunch of domains a few months back (I posted about them here).
Of what I gave away, I don't think any has been put to good use, and one of
them has been used to spam my own damn site.. Sorta lost the will to give on
that one anymore.

(Update: Of course, if someone came to me and begged me for a domain I was
just sitting on.. I'd probably be OK with giving it up!)

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stevejalim
hi petercooper - sorry to hear that the great domain giveway I sparked
(referenced elsewhere in these comments) didn't pan out for you.

Failed for me too, as it happens - no one wanted anything I had to give away,
and I had such specific target markets in mind that I just couldn't find one
that I could use -- basically the same issue that meant I couldn't find a good
unregistered domain in the first place

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soult
Your post got me interested: Do you think that HN could pull of another thread
like this: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=652952>

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mortenjorck
massivedebate.com:

One big 72pt bold, binary question at the top (i.e. "Should the US healthcare
reform bill have been passed?)

Two columns.

You can scroll down the page and read the top-rated arguments on both sides,
then choose to type into either the "for" or "against" column field, and once
you've made your argument, you can go back up the column (and into the "new
arguments" view) and vote up and down _only the side that you chose._

After a few days, the question rotates, and it starts all over again.

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leftnode
I developed a site similar to that for a friend of mine: <http://nooges.com>

Basically he posts a daily comment through a backend forum, and then people
can agree or disagree or talk smack or whatever. You don't have to be
registered to post, but if you're registered under the forums and logged in
and post, it'll show your username.

I do like the name massivedebate.com, I'll suggest it to him to see if he's
interested in it.

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andr
If you post your request/pitch as a comment here you'll get bonus points for
courage.

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prawn
I don't need any more domains or side projects, but I've always thought that
large-scale online conversations (Slashdot, Huff Po, etc) are still yet to be
done that well. MassiveDebate.com could be a suitable domain for someone
tackling the problem.

As a reader, one problem is in getting an overall feel for the 'lean' of the
conversation. There must be a way to incorporate this in large discussions, or
to categorise posts by theme ('Thinks murder sentence given was too short',
'Thinks sentence given too long', 'Discussing increased police attention for
bikie gangs', etc).

Or identify key contributors by post volume or karma within a thread.

Or provide ways for a reader to seek out arguments with people they disagree
with, or to mostly see like-minded commentors (confirmation bias).

Another problem for readers is knowing where to start. Oldest topics first or
newest? Randomised order? I've wondered (half-baked idea) about topics along a
horizontal axis with responses hanging down the vertical axis from each parent
topic. Might be something in that, or could just be a usability disaster. Or
maybe the viewport is fixed (no horiz scrollbar) but you hit arrows to each
side to browse top-level topics? Each sub-topic could have a header that
included info about the originator, key contributors within, general lean of
the contents ('Strongly favours those that think the sentence was too
light.').

Another issue is in finding the most worthwhile comments (Slashdot has
moderation and so on that can be helpful but I've only ever used it as a set-
and-forget thing to browse at +2 with Funny discounted heavily). The biggest
news network in Australia doesn't even have this (or threading, or anything
useful) in its commenting system. It's flat, no notifications, no ownership of
an alias, no prevention of people impersonating others, no up/down vote - and
it's been like that for years!

As a contributor, a big problem is the perception and reality that a lot of
comments are drive-bys. Forcing, encouraging or using a default setting of
email notification could help there, but in a way that doesn't leave you
diving for the off-switch once the replies start getting heavy. I think the
PHP BB (or maybe it's a competing forum I'm thinking of) system of sending one
alert only until you return to view the thread has merit. Providing quality
tools/experience for regular contributors could encourage people to hang
around and build up their karma within the system, etc.

How do you tackle a 500+-post conversation? Is it even possible?

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jodrellblank
I dislike the way that massive debates turn into selective replies, and think
it would be good to try a debate of 2 sides, instead of a debate of 500 serial
replies.

When you visit the site, you see the current state, and you can look down the
points and rebuttals on either side and contribute to those bits specifically
and 'push' the center line one way or the other.

Tug-o-war style, not HN comment style.

Not sure how well it would work in reality - I'm guessing a bit tediously.

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ErrantX
This was my thinking too... pick (or have users submit) some option A or
option B news stories and then give then let people post debate
comments/points for either choice.

Upvotes should hopefully drag good comments to the top - then perhaps a "show
of hands" to decide the issue

Fighting trolls would be hard.

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fizz972
I'd like to have coolthingtodo.com and host a site where people could share
cool things to do in different situations.

For example:

* When you're drunk and think you got a cool new domain name on your mind -> Write it down on some note and only buy it the next morning

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mikeyur
I own _wantrepreneur.net_ and I can't think of anything to do with it. If
anyone wants to use it, let me know and I can transfer it over to you (just
need an account at namecheap)

comment if you have any ideas for it, or shoot me an email m[]mikeyur[]com

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axod
Not being funny, but these are pretty terrible domains IMHO Why did you
register them?!

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some1else
I'd like to make an experimental semantic relevance matcher for twitter on
TWANQ. The plan is to analyze and relate tweets using OpenCYC (or even WordNET
at first, but I want to try and drop OpenCYC in the mix). It would enable you
to possibly start meaningful conversations with people in your extended social
graph (the degree of separation would probably be set by a computational
limitation on the server-side).

Edit: If anyone has experience with OpenCYC or is interested in collaborating,
please get in touch via srdjan@filmit.si

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megamark16
If I pick up any more side projects my wife will kill me :-) With that being
said, I bet someone could do something pretty cool and unique with some of
those.

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chime
My domain onyourcell.com is expiring soon and I do not plan on renewing it.
Let me know if anyone wants it before it expires.

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arethuza
Why not try selling it on sedo.com - I purchased a domain there last year and
was fairly happy with the way things worked out.

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chime
Honestly, not worth the time/effort. I highly doubt anyone will give me $100+
for it. Plus I hate domain-squatters. I don't want to do anything remotely
similar to them.

Lots of folks here on HN make phone apps. I've had onyourcell.com for 7+ yrs
now and many of the things I originally wanted to do with it are being done by
Google for free (restaurant listing, directions etc.) So if someone wants to
do anything interesting with it, you are more than welcome to take it off my
hands at no charge.

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carbocation
I'd like to make dateahipster a soft redirect to chatroulette.

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andr
Done! Should kick in after DNS updates.

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carbocation
.Hah! Awesome. If only I could be on the other end when someone first
discovers what it really means to 'dateahipster'.

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paraschopra
Well I can imagine the weirdest thing ever: just because you are giving away
the domains for free, some cool kid will get an idea for a startup.

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axod
As has been said a billion times before, the idea is the easy bit.

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chime
I own slickforms.com. You're welcome to take it for free.

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yan
I'll throw mine in also: sansvowels.com

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clistctrl
I love the concept of dateahipster.com, however its been my experience that
hipsters hate other hipsters.

