Have you ever registered a domain and later asked yourself why? (1.Viewing)

Have you ever registered a domain and later asked yourself why?

I moved a few domains to another company and a newly minted domain sits at the top of the list and every time I see it I ask myself
" why on gods green earth did I register that? "

Has anyone else done that?

In my case I own a few bicycle domains like cycle, bike, etc and for some silly reason I registered bykr.ca

It looks wrong any which way I look at it and I know it's in use elsewhere as well but trying to keep my catalog in step with my personal tastes this domain seems to be taunting me somehow. I see it at the top whenever I log in, whenever I change screens, it does not matter where I look in my control panels that domain winks at me, smiles and says.... hey there buddy, look at me!

Anyone else have something similar?

The only other time I had that is when I had a sex domain 4sex.ca and it really was not my style, it bothered me to even have it in my catalog.

MapleDots said:

" why on gods green earth did I register that? " Has anyone else done that?

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Ironically, I did that just today.. funny you would start a topic on that.. LOL..

there was always a reason, sometimes you just forget.

• backlinks or traffic that has since tapered off
• you were taking it off the market because you own a better variant, i.e. brand protection
• was a trendy term once upon a time
• you heard a new term watching the news and you jumped on it only for it to never take off
• you saw a sale under another tld and reg’d the CA
• you noticed all the other similar keyword variations were reg’d
• you were drunk/high and thought it sounded like a good brandable at the time

I’m guessing the latter on Bykr

rlm said:

I’m guessing the latter on Bykr

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Made sense at the time bykr.shop

I remember there was a domain someone used to own and suddenly a buyer had emerged looking for it. The previous owner posted a buy request on here and I as I now owned the domain, I responded back. But it turned out to be a mis-spell (he probably got the inquiry on the phone and just phonetically heard the domain - think Biker and Byker) and the potential buyer couldn't reach the mystery owner of this non-word/phonetic domain.

Then a year or so later that same domain drops - I watched it expire and decided to register it. Who knows, right?

Fast forward maybe 2 years later (with zero interest) and I'm going through my renewals and immediately I see it and think "Why the hell did I register that piece of crap" before immediately remembering the story above.

MapleDots said:

Made sense at the time bykr.shop

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Ah yes. See? There's always a reason at the time!

at an old domain conference, they were playing a game with the audience of "is it registered or not?" and they would bark out absurd domain names and the audience would vote on if it was reg'd or not. Just so I could be right, I registered on of those domains on the spot with my laptop, lol. I wish I could remember what the domain was now. Basically a $10 joke.

rlm said:

Ah yes. See? There's always a reason at the time!

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Especially because I'm an avid rider (motorcycles) so that shop spoke to me even though the other side of my brain said the domain sucks.

I have bikr.ca which is way better

rlm said:

at an old domain conference, they were playing a game with the audience of "is it registered or not?"

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Remember Godaddy having a contest at DomainFest and once I came runner up and the next year I won it Got some cool merch. Great memories.