It costs anywhere from $8-15/year to renew a domain depending on the tld, so it's pretty expensive to sit on them. I thought this would be a good way to put them to use within the hn community before I set them free to the crazies of the domain registrant world.
I apologize if this is not the right forum for this request, but Hackers are desperately needed. The domain industry sucks and remix.com should be a cool web app.
I’m in a position to engage in a joint venture, sell or lease this domain. The term remix receives more than 100 million monthly searches (35MM U.S.), and the domain is adequately backlinked that it displays on the first page of google results. I wanted to develop this, but my life is going in a different direction. I’d prefer a hands-off equity stake position with the right team because I think the name has exceptional potential.
This really is a phenomenal way to monetize generic domains. The best part is that the leases are so short so that I could still sell my domains if the right end-user happened to come along (a rare thing these days).
"Root Orange is a game-changer for domainers. At Root Orange, we agree the best way to monetize a generic domain name is often to sell it to an end-user. Businesses that offer the product or service described by the generic domain name can almost always get more value from the domain than the owner of a parked or developed website that depends on direct navigation traffic and PPC revenue.
Sales to strategic end-users have long been the dream of domain owners and investors, but there have always been two catches:
1) Once your name is sold, the recurring revenue stream is gone.
2) If your name does not describe a product or service offered by a major, national company the potential sale price is not very attractive.
Root Orange solves both problems. We lease every domain to multiple end-users, each in unique metropolitan markets. Instead of one sale, we can generate over 200 leases for each name in the U.S. alone."
Don't see any reason to switch from google.
"You need a SharePoint server and license in order to collaborate, and either: You need to pay license fees for an on-premise version of Office 2010 or You need to pay an as-yet-unspecified subscription fee."
http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10002712/the-hidden-cost...
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The Web Apps hosted on Microsoft's servers are free (or rather ad-supported). If you want to host them on your own servers, you need to buy various things. I thought Google Docs was the same way?
Sharepoint 3.0 was free to anyone with a Windows Server 2003 license. Once you build out that infrastructure a bit the marginal costs to upgrade into MOSS (SharePoint 2007/2010) start to look ok.
I personally prefer more socially focused solutions (e.g. Jive) but SharePoint is making huge strides as both a collaboration backbone and as a document management platform.
Some Fortune 500 companies are now building new intranet apps around SharePoint rather than standalone. There are a number of off the shelf solutions available as SharePoint "web parts".
Tyler, thanks for reaching out. I'll email soon. I'm wondering how intensive the location-based functionality would be to incorporate, because beyond that, I'm finding As RX'd to be really useful.
