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Comment by Bostwick | Hacker News Reader

I was going to post a domain, but when it made me authorize with Twitter, I stopped.

I don't understand why you need identity for this project and why that identity is limited to Twitter. I think participation would increase if anonymous entries were allowed.

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The idea really is to allow you sharing your stories with people you can have access to. I think the fun part of it is to see who owns what. And Twitter allows you to eventually get in touch with the person if you have any interest in the domain name or just want to randomly comment on it.

So why not make the twitter handle an optional field for each entry? People could still use twitter to get in touch, and those who don't use twitter would not be excluded.

That's something we have been thinking about. We are just afraid it would open a door for spammers and trolls if we didn't require an oauth signup to post.

Ges, people don't need you to do that. They can just tweet 'anyone interested in buying hotdomain.com from me?' What you're doing here is trying to insert yourself as a domain marketing service, and while your intentions are surely decent your presentation comes off as crooked.

We are not a domain marketing service. We are a social game that lets people get a little more insight into their friends and colleagues from the internet community by seeing which domains they've registered.

+1 for shapiro, we are just here to allow people socially / casually discuss around their domain names. No crook intentions. :)

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