Domain Inspiration

I was in the process of transferring MashedJobs.com to its new owner (recently sold on Flippa) and while I was working in my GoDaddy account, I thought it would be fun to go through the list of domain names I own and list them all here with an explanation of why I own them. After participating in the latest meme-craze URL ABC from TVD, I thought this would be a fun way to share my ideas and domain purchase mistakes with all my friends.

So here you go:

• 9creatives.com – I had an idea to put together a small network of designers that posted just ridiculously awesome content and aggregating it all in one place. I even designed a nonapus (well, that’s what Anton called my octopus with nine tentacles, anyway)
• advertwitter.com – In my attempt to piggyback on the insane amount of crazy hype surrounding twitter, I registered a couple domains that I thought could hold high value in the future. This was one of those purchases.
• alienrobots.org – I really like alien robots. Considered switching my main blog over to this one.
• alldevjobs.com – Currently provides rad design and dev jobs to job seekers.
• ampednetwork.com – Was trying to build a blog network. Well, thought about it anyway.
• cannedtweets.com – I wanted to build a database of funny/awesome things to say on twitter, then offer a chance for people to tweet them. Seems like a good idea still, just not sure it really is as awesome as I originally thought.
• chris-wallace.com – Um. That’s the blog you’re reading.
• designerwordpress.com – Pretty obvious domain given my experience with WordPress. Can’t really use it for a business though, since it violates the WordPress trademark. Could use it to redirect traffic though.
• designmoo.com – Awesome source of design links.
• getplucked.com – Was trying to pick some good domains for an application called Pluck.
• kitchenmoderno.com – After building up and selling MyLibros.com, my partner and I were very much into e-commerce and wanted to open a store selling kitchen items.
• liftux.com – Coming soon.
• logocontest.net – Was thinking about offering a way for non-profits to hold crowdsourced competitions for new branding development. If you think you can help me build this, contact me. Still on my list of things to build.
• mashedjobs.com (sold)
• mixcss.com – Crazy awesome design gallery.
• newsnear.me – Planned to build a news aggregator with sub-domains for locations. http://stlouis.newsnear.me for example.
• pluckthat.com – (repeat) Was trying to pick some good domains for an application called Pluck.
• refreshstl.com – Planning to start Refresh St. Louis with this domain.
• refreshstlouis.com – (repeat) Planning to start Refresh St. Louis with this domain.
• simplybase.com – I have no effing clue.
• strayrescue.net – StrayRescue.org let their domain expire on accident and they needed a replacement domain while they worked to get it back.
• tvframestore.com – Another of my e-commerce ideas, I thought TV frames were going to become increasingly popular. I think they still will. But I don’t know anything about them.
• tweetbuy.com – Again, piggybacking on the whole twitter app idea I bought this domain with the intention of selling it or displaying different websites that allow you to “buy” tweets.
• typawegraphy.com – In Awe of Typography. I want to build an awesome blog with this.
• upthemes.com – Coming soon.
• userpile.com – I have no clue why I bought this domain.
• usertrain.com – I was thinking about building a UX blog and this was a domain that I really liked.
• virtualsxsw.com – I was sad about missing out on SXSW so I built a site that aggregated all tweets from it.
• walmedia.com – The parent company of Lift, Designmoo, MixCSS, AllDevJobs.com, etc.
• webify.me – Not sure what I wanted to do with this one, but I knew it was cool. Still is.