Idea: Domain name exchange... trade your unused domains for other ones that might be of more value to you. Like baseball cards... but for domain names
Somebody go develop it now.
Somebody go develop it now.
It seems like there is at least some sort of interest so keep hacking away.
Couple of suggestions for future improvements:
- Put the recently listed domains right on the main page (maybe below the blue instruction box)
- Instead of allowing users to contact the domain name owners via e-mail, make them flag the domains they are interested in and expressing that interest to the domain owner through the site itself. The owner then gets a notice about a user who wants to trade, and is given the ability to see which domains the other party has for trade. Then they can go through the same process of flagging a domain they might be interested in trading, or cancelling the trade if they don't see anything of interest to them. That could be the start of a basic bartering engine.
Great start though!
I envisioned a mobile app with some kind of a simple barter system. I'd love to be part of a project working on it and can share some ideas I had sketched out.
1) Users pay to list their domains.
Pro: Guaranteed revenue from every user
Con: Low motivation for user to pay up as there's no guarantee for reward
Pro: same as 1 but better because of larger free user base who might be more likely to convert to a paying user
Con: Could a user just keep rotating hundreds of domains through their free account? (imposing a limit on how many times a user can list and de-list domains would prevent this)
Pro: more motivation for users to pay up as the reward is imminent. Also both users can split the fee making it more affordable for each of them
Con: Revenue is conditional on successful trades. Could the users use the service to simply list their domains then use outside channels to complete the actual trade/transaction?
5) Maybe the site handles trades as well as cash purchases. Trades are free.. purchases incur a 2% fee.
6) Ads for other internet services. Perhaps the domains could be contextually paired with the ads so that if a user is searching for mma-website.com he/she sees ads for mma training equipment and facilities.
You can actually sell it as a value-add and, from what I understand from professional domain squatters / traders, there's a surprisingly decent amount of money in it. The amount of link juice you could give the main domain probably also isn't insignificant...