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Giving away a few Japan-related domain names
On March 18, 2009 in #The Japan-related Web Debate, Announcements, Blog Improvements, Suggestions Please
I have a few domain names that I’d like to give (yes, free) to anyone who will do good with them.
Going forward it will be important for me to focus my time and resources on the areas where I am already providing value (and can provide future value). And I plan to cut everything that doesn’t.
So, here are the domains available (all registered at godaddy):
Japanopedia.org - A Japan encyclopedia project was the original vision. Maybe you can make it work or come up with a better idea for it. Ganbare!
Japanopedia.com - was registered to protect the japanopedia name (which was probably pointless)
gaijinbook.com - I had so many ideas for this site. The first website I ever made was thegaijinbook.com in 2003 with the help of a friend. It was supposed to be a site where foreigners (mostly foreign exchange students) in Japan could post articles talking about their experiences. We even played with the idea of turning some of the experiences into a book (which could be done easily now with lulu) and giving all the published submitters a percentage of sales. But the idea didn’t take off (my vanity would like to think it was ahead of its time) and I moved on to other website projects. We forgot to renew the name and lost it. I always liked the name though and ended up buying gaijinbook.com (which was better anyway). I didn’t have a clear idea for it at first but finally planned to turn into a social networking site for foreigners. Probably not a great idea. I don’t know.
Anyway, maybe you can take it and do something awesome with it.
I’ve never sold or given away a domain before so I am not sure exactly how it works on godaddy although I know you can do it and supposedly it isn’t hard.
SO, if you are interested, just email me about the domain you want and we can figure out how to make the transfer from there.
eaglelandgrace Att gmail
those are some real high quality domains
I’d love to take gaijinbook.com off your hands but fear I wouldn’t be fully able to make use if it until I finally make it to Japan. If no other better owner applies I’d like to be considered.
You most certainly can have it.
For Jamaipanese anything!
You may not remember (but I definitely do) that your advice and early help were instrumental for launching DailyJ.
So if you really want it, it is already yours.
thanks Tori, it’s been that long already, searching though my emails I realise you first contacted me through my blog 2 years ago!
sending you an email
I used to own gaijincafe.com, which is now parked and full of ads. Sometimes it’s better to hand these domains over to people who can use them productively, rather than just letting them expire like I regrettably did with Gaijin Cafe. Good on you, Chemist.
hmmm, I like that name GaijinCafe.
Yep, I thought it would be better to pass them on to people who will do something with them than let them go to the likes of a domain squatter. I am still sore over the loss of my first j-site thegaijinbook.com to squatters.
hey Tori, did you get my email? No response from you and just giving you the heads up
Thanks for keeping on top of me about it.
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