One Ugly Domain = 1 million dollars?
Remember Kyle Macdonald and his One Red Paper Clip? The quirky story where he got a large paperclip, and set out to barter it for other stuff, planning to keep exchanging till he got a house?
Here comes another barter blog. Starting with One Ugly Domain, Andres Kello’s trying to barter domain names to get something better - and in the process, hopefully to get a domain worth a million dollars.
It might work - if, similar to One Red Clip, there’s significant media attention, the domains being bartered elicit a lot of interest and traffic, they’d get valued higher and higher. It’s opportunistic, but so far has already pulled in two trades - and with domains that are probably worth more than the registration fee he paid.
The funny thing is, he started off bartering www.oneuglydomain.net, keeping www.oneuglydomain.com for himself (that points to his blogspot blog). I’d have thought starting with the .com would’ve been better for his traders.
In any case - one .net, one .com - shouldn’t it have been twouglydomains rather than one?
Written by 2cworth on November 9th, 2006 with
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#1. November 10th, 2006, at 11:34 PM.
Very interesting. I’m definitely going to follow this one. This could be a “Why didn’t I think of that???” type of deal.