u/Just_Wondering34

I had a little bit of a laundry list of domain names, still got it. Not too long ago I sliced the price down where I thought someone might buy them with intention to make a little bit of money on their purchase or something. I wanted to start shaking some domain names loose because I'm tired of looking at them and paying that yearly fee on them. I got a few hundred for the domain.

I guess I had that one for about just under 3 years.

Seems like I did this right, you know? I had dropped the price to entice a buyer to maybe buy it for resale or something.

Now's the tricky part... How do I watch and see where it went? Do I just search for it next week and see? Any good ideas?

Thanks!! Super excited to see that one gone!!!

Oh yeah, one more thing. Most of these are on Afternic and I had selected that Fast Transfer stuff. They are registrared at NameCheap and I put them on Afternic. Well, I deleted them from Afternic hoping to get rid of the FastTransfer thing and then I put them back on Afternic.... now somehow its like the Fast Transfer is still on them and I don't know why.

USA

Its pretty much evident to a lot of people/small businesses that the current US administration has made numerous decisions/plans that are inhibiting small business new growth and development. Tariffs last year, fuel prices this year... Who's already speculating what's next year?

The question here is, has the govt started implementing any incentives for small business creation and growth since they tore up the landscape? My own project has basically been suppressed and I'm already trying to think of something to do to float my interesting project by while this administration headache and destruction takes place against small business.

I thought about calling the sba or the sbdc to see but they usually act surprised to have such smart questions and usually shut the question down when you have identified such a hard thing for them to answer it seems. It's like they take it offensive or something if you ask them such a good question like that.

Maybe this is a weird question for us. I got involved with domain names buying and selling(haven't really sold one). I'm quite certain that one of these domain names are currently relevant and useful from 1-2 yrs ago to the next 3-5 years and forward. I put it on some of the marketplaces for sale but obviously there were no buyers. So then I reasoned I would just build a reason for someone to consider buying the domain.

As I studied/considered I reasoned that I would make some designs for shirts and so I put them on redbubble with not really a goal of making a lot of money on them but rather to simply spreading awareness of the idea/concept. ( I dont think many people even heard of that shirt site even though they have more than shirts ).

I also reasoned that I might create some basic website that has a use for something for people(haven't quite honed in which idea I want to go with) would need or could use. Games may be popular but not likely on a repetitive basis in enough quantity.

Well, now I have an actual image/logo and I guess its mine. Its literally a basic looking switch button that is red in color because the idea is literally - Emergency Stop Switch. ( I have that .com domain, can't believe I was still able to get it )

So now I have this logo/name I guess and there's not a real business around it. Remember, one of the main ideas was to stoke the domain name and get a buyer for it eventually.

I also went to a few of the social medias and snagged the name/handle or whatever you call it.

I'll take any thoughts you have but maybe one of the bigger questions here is about what audio I can actually use with it. I probably wouldn't mind if someone else created a simple audio and just gave me free use of it. Apparently, maybe I'm not supposed to use some movie theme songs/audio on those social media outlets. It's kind of odd because this is not really a business and has no active revenue and no reasonable expectation of such. Literally, I was trying to sell the domain name and it wasn't sparking any creative thoughts right now in people because it does not seem that they realize the potential and relevancy to the current times.

I pulled down some social media stuff until I could figure out this audio/music stuff.

Maybe this forum doesn't allow l n ks or something, idk. I wanted to show you all the image or something so you could understand. Probably just search for emergency stop switch on the ut ube I guess. (the actual domain for the name was emergency stop switch dot com... for some reason, buyers don't seem to understand or link the relevance to current times)

Is it even a thing where someone just creates a theme song or piece of media for a name like this. The thing is, I don't think the emphasis of this concept here is on a piece of media as the main focal point. I got on this website and social media track to gain the exposure to the domain name and kind of show its potential. Is there someone of a place where someone designs a piece of media/audio sound for something like this where I can just use it? I really don't need to be limited to one and this is not really that big of a deal I don't think. I have no intentions of stopping and creating a piece of audio/sound just to go with my main theme title/word when there's just plenty of stuff out there already.

Any thoughts/ideas? Thanks

Maybe this is a weird question for us. I got involved with domain names buying and selling(haven't really sold one). I'm quite certain that one of these domain names are currently relevant and useful from 1-2 yrs ago to the next 3-5 years and forward. I put it on some of the marketplaces for sale but obviously there were no buyers. So then I reasoned I would just build a reason for someone to consider buying the domain.

As I studied/considered I reasoned that I would make some designs for shirts and so I put them on redbubble with not really a goal of making a lot of money on them but rather to simply spreading awareness of the idea/concept. ( I dont think many people even heard of that shirt site even though they have more than shirts ).

I also reasoned that I might create some basic website that has a use for something for people(haven't quite honed in which idea I want to go with) would need or could use. Games may be popular but not likely on a repetitive basis in enough quantity.

Well, now I have an actual image/logo and I guess its mine. Its literally a basic looking switch button that is red in color because the idea is literally - Emergency Stop Switch. ( I have that .com domain, can't believe I was still able to get it )

So now I have this logo/name I guess and there's not a real business around it. Remember, one of the main ideas was to stoke the domain name and get a buyer for it eventually.

I also went to a few of the social medias and snagged the name/handle or whatever you call it.

I'll take any thoughts you have but maybe one of the bigger questions here is about what audio I can actually use with it. I probably wouldn't mind if someone else created a simple audio and just gave me free use of it. Apparently, maybe I'm not supposed to use some movie theme songs/audio on those social media outlets. It's kind of odd because this is not really a business and has no active revenue and no reasonable expectation of such. Literally, I was trying to sell the domain name and it wasn't sparking any creative thoughts right now in people because it does not seem that they realize the potential and relevancy to the current times.

I pulled down some social media stuff until I could figure out this audio/music stuff.

Maybe this forum doesn't allow l n ks or something, idk. I wanted to show you all the image or something so you could understand. Probably just search for emergency stop switch on the ut ube I guess. (the actual domain for the name was emergency stop switch dot com... for some reason, buyers don't seem to understand or link the relevance to current times)

Is it even a thing where someone just creates a theme song or piece of media for a name like this. The thing is, I don't think the emphasis of this concept here is on a piece of media as the main focal point. I got on this website and social media track to gain the exposure to the domain name and kind of show its potential. Is there someone of a place where someone designs a piece of media/audio sound for something like this where I can just use it? I really don't need to be limited to one and this is not really that big of a deal I don't think. I have no intentions of stopping and creating a piece of audio/sound just to go with my main theme title/word when there's just plenty of stuff out there already.

Any thoughts/ideas? Thanks

Got involved with TT and it's neat to create a video. I am wondering about the audio they let you use. They have audio on there that is directly from a movie them song or TV show. It does not seem to block you out from using that type of audio even if you tell it you are using the video for promotion or brand awareness.

To me, it would seem that the TT platform has gained their own approval from a music/song artist to allow the artists music/media to be used on the platform along with a video.... This does not actually seem to be the case.

Am I able to use a movie/theme song along with a short video on TT... My video would clearly not have people in it but show a direct representation/reference of the brand. The brand may be attached to other monetary ventures elsewhere so it's kind of like spreading brand awareness. It does not seem that a poster should use certain media if doing this. Does anyone know?

(I find it very odd that TT would openly allow this from an unrestricted angle, especially when a poster tells TT that the video is promoting brand awareness or such.)

Thanks

Probably I'm just trying to make a website that has only one type of themed games on it. The website is emergency stop switch . com..... I'm thinking there are likely some free games already out there that I can just plop onto the website. The theme is really geared around machinery and robots allowing an emergency stop switch to disable them as part of the game or something.

I did sign up to some site called base44 but for the simple game that I made I am thinking there is a cheaper alternative than that base44. I'm not thinking of highly sophisticated games but I am thinking around that them of having a type of button or something that get hit. Think of a game that has like robots or something and they all have emergency stop switches on them and the goal is to hit them all to disable them.

With that being said, there's so many games out there already that it would seem that something like that has already been made. Probably if I knew I could create something that looked halfway decent then I'd be willing to pay the monthly fee. That's the problem, I can't just sign up to all these AI website builders and find out that they don't work and then I'm just on the hook for wash, rinse, repeat predatory billing cycles. Right now I have the domain above through namecheap and also have it hosted through them(hosting fee is low).

Maybe I envision the website being for one or 2 interesting games only. Envision the main character of the game trekking through a course or something and having the goal of hitting each robots emergency stop switch to disable them. Maybe the robots are building an empire or something and the goal of the character is to disable as many robots as they can in order to stop them.

What is it called that I might need to build this, a website app builder or something? What I was mentioning is I can't just pay for each platform and find out is is blockaded by something like a high fee or blah, blah, blah.

(Aside from this, do you all know a basic way to just make a thousand or 2 a month off my website? As in, maybe I don't have to create games at all for this. Like I say, I'm not opposed to paying a subscription to a website builder but I am opposed to the predatory tactic of offering a false blind hope just for an AI builder tool that is not even guaranteed.)

Thanks so much. These AI website builders seem to make you pay for a whole year subscription whether or not you actually want/need the whole year. This is kind of a give-away of the process of preying on hopeful customers, etc etc.

Just wondering folks. I was playing around with that redbubble site(don't necessarily care if I make much/any money there). I can't think of one person that I know who even knows what these tshirt sites are.. I've got something interesting and timed right for the trend...

https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Art-Official-NteluhGents-Gotted-it-Rong-Emergency-Stop-Switch-Official-by-7-Emerg-Stp-Sw/181522507/lrcw.XYZ

(I'm not looking for a review of this link)

The question here is how are people even spreading the word. Do I have to get on some social media sites and spread the word? That would actually be a problem because those media sites are set up predatorily to try and scalp money from users that want views.. They try and make you pay for more views(promoting they call it)

Did I hear someone say gatekeeping? How about the phrase guinea pig?

Well, I gave it a chance. The major signs right now say this kind of AI stuff is just a money grab attempt on the masses. I'm sure it helps someone somewhere but you can kind of tell when something is directed towards the masses as to what the intention is.

I used this base44 for something and it looks like it did reasonable for something basic. Then I put it through another test and it failed miserably. If this stuff is supposed to be AI then they got a long ways to go. Look at the trend, this currently is not much different than the wow factor that the Internet brought in the late 90s..

A business can be run by planning to put the blockades in the most advantageous position and then working from there. I say this to say if there is not a net gain over the same time allotment window then what has really been gained? If I would now have to stop and take a greater amount of time to study other avenues just to help this one do it's job then this is not much gain over previous ways/tactics. I guess those other systems would eventually try to paywall and gatekeep too.

If you all want to know a side topic I can tell you we need a robot mower too... Guess what, they aren't ready to handle anything much besides easy stuff..... We have to forego that one too while they learn off of everyone else.

Do I have to spoon feed all of these AI tools everything? Are they just collecting the data right now and not doing better until a human tells them to not do it that way??? if this is all this AI stuff is then I'm pretty sure society knew this was coming years ago.

To this specific base44 app it would seem that if it's only going to do easy stuff then I might as well go find a cheaper AI tool and make the basic game there instead. Any way I can pull the code from the base44 game/app I already made?

Thanks

Thanks for all your help and thoughts. I have some domain names I guess I might want to start building into actual websites. Nobody really wanted to buy the domain names it seems so obviously there was a spark in my mind for some of them.

I hav studied very very basic coding through the past 3-4 decades. Had a college course in java about 10-12 yrs ago in which the professor wasn't good. So now here we are with this supposed AI stuff in the past few years. Mind you, I have been playing with AI for a few days now like building a page or app or whatever you call them these days. In the past 15-20 yrs or so I had been a machinist for about 5 yrs in which I dealt heavily with code for programming. I say that to say that this AI stuff is not that surprising... I figure we knew this was coming since about the past 5-6 decades. I could tell you even more but whatever.

The question is what website builder or app builder or whatever they call them these days might be reasonable to use? I'm talking basic games like from the 90s... One of the main goals was always always to stoke the domain name and just get some interest in it to sell the domain name. I have been playing around one one site called base44 and then I also had heard about lovable.... I have to wonder if these are just covers that can be done elsewhere. Please do not misunderstand, I am not opposed to paying for one of these, like base44, to help pop out basic games or web views....

Kind of view it like a hobby or something on this question. Sink a little money into your hobby and if it goes nowhere then you still had fun learning/etc. Are you all opposed to signing up to a site like base44 or lovable? This is as opposed to that same ease factor and task able to be produced somewhere else for free like chatgpr or something.... Oh yes, I have the domains through name cheap and they have this tool called WordPress but it looks like I am supposed to create the games elsewhere and drop them into the domain site through WordPress or something...??

Thanks for any thoughts..

I'm not sure why no one talks about this. It seems I have spent a few years training a supplier encountered on Alibaba on a basic custom product. Mind us, I have worked in manufacturing in the US.

Wouldn't we know that it's obvious a lot of them want the most largest order. It seems they think you'll just buy it and they'll send you what they feel like making.

I have had to say things in attempt to get the supplier to stop and think about what they are doing instead of them just going with a knee jerk reaction. It has literally been some of the easiest things that have been skirted... For example, "Let's not tell this buyer that we can't consistently produce the right matching color of material they want. Let's just wait for the next order and let them find out on their own while we take their money."

It literally feels like I have dealt with kids communicating a lot of the time. Worse is that I have a suspicion their bosses are pushing them in this direction in attempt to gatekeep their new prospects. It almost seems like they think it is a game. So while I'm trying to get a valid supplier on board with the program, they are focused on twisting and coercing the ballgame to suit themselves instead of looking to work with a promising recurring buyer.

I'm wondering if anyone else has gotten this vibration or similar dealing with China. I'll also tell us I'm certain at this point I have even dealt with suppliers outside of Alibaba whom display similar characteristics.

Hmmm... I was all excited of course. I feel like a little kid in the 90's with this AI stuff learning computers again. So short of the long is that I have my own domain, let's just say "mydomain . com" or something. I built a game app with a free account on base44. It's trying to make me sign up to a cost plan in order to put this game/app right on my own domain website that I use namecheap to host.

What ways have you found to get around this? Only thing I can think of is put a screenshot picture of the game and then have that picture be a link to the actual app/game on base44. Seems like a little too much work for a user to click through hoops just to get to a game.

Just for testing/learning(which is some of what I'm doing), it would seem like that is ok.

Any thoughts? Thanks

Edit: by the way, can I just take the code or something from base44 and put it into chatgpt and ask it to change some features instead?

Not sure why I haven't seen much on this concept yet with all the browsing around I've done. I was trying to sell a domain name on one of those marketplaces like sedo or afternic. They don't seem to really work for exposure so I opted to get one of them kind of moving with real activity on the actual domain site as well.

I started with actually hosting the website of the domain through namecheap.... Well, now how do I offer it for sale since I'm actually using it as a website in an attempt to spread the exposure of their website. Both sedo and afternic(the ones I have) try to make me direct to their sales lander page on the domain but I can't do that since I am actually using the website.

Are there people that sell websites themselves too instead of using one of those marketplaces/brokers? I mean, I'm feeling like if those domain marketplaces can't help get the sufficient exposure then why should they get 15% of 5 million dollars for just doing cookie cutter work??? It's like they've just done easy cash register work and that's it.

Well... It started to when I was interested in building a domain name website. I got the interesting name for the domain... Then I began to think about how I could spread word about my phrase(domain). I basically concluded I would start by doing this print on demand t-shirt stuff with the phrase on the shirts and other stuff.

So, my t-shirts look interesting... And really so do the other items that would have my artwork on them. I just set up that red bubble thing literally this weekend. People don't usually "just find stuff" on the convoluted internet. There's way too much stuff out there and people just compete for keywords.

How long does that red bubble site take to approve my listings on a new account? I've got to be honest, I don't suppose I even care if the site makes money or not. Usually those paths are just set up to feed off of the participants.

I'm thankful they at least have a way to do this. It is very hard to get suppliers on a product and it would be a lot of work to even get a real supplier to make these items. I'm thankful redbubble even has this path. I basically have an interesting internet domain name and this is one way in which I am spreading the word.

That being said.. I don't think I ever even heard of people really shopping on that website. I've probably seen and heard of more people trying to pump the site and garner views of their supposed explanation of the site. Is there another easy way I can get my name/wording concept out there because most of these online forums and stuff say no advertising or promoting.

Are there any other unique ways that I can use POD to help me with the exposure of my interesting name. I don't even know how redbubble gives exposure to my art when I don't know anybody that shops there and stuff is literally just buried in the depths of search results there...thanks

Wow, where to start... I don't think I've played around with actually building out websites since I was a little kid in the 90s...

I'm kind of wondering where to start? For a simple idea I basically want to have a easy game or something on my webpage. Right now this project is two fold. I am interested in the learning aspect of how to do it and then also interested in making something creative.

I envision a website with a simple button push talley where people anywhere can just go to the site and start clicking away on a single button. Surely with all the convoluted electronics these days some entity has probably just made a cookie cutter template or something. The button push or click simply makes a counter tool increase every time someone clicks it. There's probably no limit on clicks either and I thought about turning it into a type of game or something.

I got involved with something called WordPress and my domain is through namecheap. I speculate if there was a better route but I'm not really worried about it.

The site is emergency stop switch dot com and I just threw some stuff up on it playing around with it right now learning. That WordPress thing makes it look like a blog or something and that is not the look I want. I literally want one kind of view only and no real scrolling down.

Any ideas/hints? Thanks

Is there another forum for this. I am probably about to play around with making a website for fun and experience... I know there is a whole conversation about lawyers out there just looking to sue a website that isn't compliant. Is there a way a website can make sure it is compliant? I'm talking about something really basic of a website...

Thanks for help/guidance

Well I have two domain names that I think I can turn into something. I envision them being like news feed for data center news or robot stuff or something. How about AI slop videos or AI failure videos?

Think about how back during COVID there was a covid counter website.

Do we think somebody is already doing some kind of webSite like this? How would I even go building It? Could I just pay someone to build the other website once I identify a game plan? how do I even find the data, like youtube to post videos. is it just fair game to link videos from YouTube I like a collective..

The goal is to make money with ads I guess or increase the value of the domain by building something so it will make the high price of domain name interesting.

Maybe I'll turn it into a voting website for being against AI or data center stuff.

The 2 domains are:

Emergency stop switch .com

Emergency kill switch .com

Does anybody know any examples of where people may have already done something like this anda made money?

If you don't know what an Emergency Stop Switch is, it is a real switch on a lot of industrial machines that is there to urgently stop the machine when there is trouble or a problem...(Kind of like all this data center, AI and then robot stuff)

Thanks

Well, that's a doozy.... Its all too quick... This thing is literally simply where it was in early May... It's like nothing happened...

If the fundamentals are good(which I think they are) then I think this thing is still poised to climb over the coming months, few years... That was too fast of a climb to be a healthy climb.

AI isn't going anywhere. I'm pretty sure I remember hearing of this super computer stuff way back in the 90s.... This means I'm pretty sure the industries expected this to come... I'm looking for a robot mower for the family but I'm in no rush really.

It's a significant conversation to tackle the cooling of these data center things.... Do you realize once they make significant advancements in the cooling, kind of like battery tech advanced, then these building structures will probably just be another commercial/industrial site and folks will stop complaining about water.

Honestly, I don't see an immediate use for the AI so far online just helping do a search and collect data and string it together and hopefully get something right. Robots will come but I expect them to still need worked on. All the software program stuff it is helping with is useful... Just imagine taking a stack of papers and shoving it through a scanner and it sorting stuff out in appropriate pots(these will be electronic docs obviously).

I see this as still being a long term stock... All it has to do is beat the 12% a year that the market would have given/etc... That will probably happen in the future I suspect... The dilution is likely just another headwind.. yeah, there probably was somewhere insider knowledge somewhere

This company may not move fast but it'll prob grow. Apparently the market wants to put data centers on the moon... I'm still waiting to see who or what is tackling the industry requirement for any structure there to have the same light reflective characteristics on the roof as the moon already has...

Investors of smci hands are in chains for now as it's like the last 2 months didn't even happen. I suspect I will see a day when this climbs again...

I have a handful of domains for sale. The issue is I don't supposed I have been doing this long and the domain marketplaces seem to have no way to legitimately advertise a domain for sale. This means the registrars just get their yearly domain registration fee continually and some domains may just never sell, even if they're good.

So what's the point? It would almost seem that if you have a good domain name idea then just simply write it down and wait until a better time when you can do something with it or when the market might be ripe to sell it.

I guess I've done Sedo and Afternic now and neither seem to be much in the way of advertising.... They just seem to be like a search tool for domain names.

How do you all do it? So far, on this experiment I've just paid the yearly registration fees and they sit mostly waiting on someone to hopefully buy them of course I guess...

(Edit: Not sure why the system keeps deleting your comments? Please drop it to me in the chat thing also in addition to just commenting here.)

With the fuel prices elevated, that means increased freight cost when importing. If you are then shipping the item to an end consumer then this also means increased shipping cost to them. If you were already selling low cost items then you're profit margin can be almost basically/nearly gone.

So the question is, how many small businesses are basically just extremely reducing their operations or even just sitting kind of idle near low effort nearly doing nothing with the intention to not grow or advance all while this fuel price mess hopefully goes away?

Keep in mind, if you are in the USA then you may have dealt with tariffs last year, then this year is both tariffs and fuel prices... Literally, what's next year? I'm almost expecting at this point that there will be some market variable that the US administration performs which leaves the small businesses almost at an extremely low profit or maybe even a loss? Will the IRS even allow multiple years of losses from a small business on taxes?

It's not looking good and instead of just closing down are you drawing in and reducing instead? Maybe it's like your side business or something.. Maybe there are small business incentives by the US govt to build or something? Maybe there are other programs to build manufacturing in the US too?

Thoughts or opinion? Thanks

Firstly, we are in no rush.

Top of the list:

- we dont want this machine to catch fire nor do we want a model/brand that has any track record whatsoever of such

- like it to get the cut done in one day a week and know the weather....

- needs next to no attention, kind of like those household robot vacuums...

- does not need the boundary wire

- can see/know flowers enough to avoid running over them

- the yard in back for this to cut maybe has a 15-20 deg. slope, it's pretty shallow

I want to kind of think about this as an experiment... A very good and no-fail experiment.... Ideally I wouldn't want to need to change the razor blades but once a season in the south... Hopefully there is a brand that was smart enough to just make a sort of quick-disconnect blade head where you can just have an extra cutting head and make quick work of it.

Hoping to find something used status for lower pricing... The flip side is to just continue to wait a few years till they get better and we can expand the cutting zone reasonably.

If you have an older one that can do this and you're getting rid of it mostly for free then let me know please. Maybe do c.o.d. or something, I don't know.

We're willing to let this pass and we certainly do not like the idea of just having a robot mower out there running at will all day everyday making noise and being an unsightly device/robot.

We don't care too much about these things right now but I figure maybe there is one that is just smart enough to let loose in only the fenced back yard... I expect them to get better through time

Thanks!!!