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Bye Bye Domain Names #2

  • Writer: Andrew Kinnear
    Andrew Kinnear
  • Jan 26, 2009
  • 2 min read

In my last post about the liquidation of some domain names I registered, I mentioned that these domains are somewhat valuable, but probably only to a select few people.  If you know someone you think may be interested-- send them the link.  Who knows?

McDPoints.com, ArchPoints.com, ArchRewards.com - A while back when I was running the loyaltybank.com and making pitches for B2B loyalty and rewards programs, I took it upon myself to register many variations and ideas and competitive placeholders for some program domains.  These ones were obviously for McDonalds (either in Canada or somewhere else) but I also have some that would work for Starbucks, CaraFoods, BurgerKing, the Keg, SIRcorp, and Tim Hortons. These could be consumer programs, or more likely, Employee recognition or rewards programs.  I'm confident that all of these domains avoid infringing any trademarks, but they are recognizable enough to be relevant.

Poopipedia.com - This was a bizarre idea I had for creating a series of Bathroom readers based on creative commons licensed content from Wikipedia.  There are many incredibly interesting and wacky articles in Wikipedia, and people always need something to read on the john.  This idea never came to fruition. 

GreenMyWallet.com, GreenMyAuto.com - These two sites came from an idea to create a brand of site "GreenMy" specializing in certain parts of your life.  GreenMyWallet I managed to get off the ground, and it has actually seen some tremendous traffic from StumbleUpon and Digg, because there's some useful info and some great links.  I just don't have the time or desire to maintain this...  

RegistryPoints.com, Registry-Rewards.com, HerPoints.com - The thinking, going back to my consumer loyalty plans from above, focus around creating a site where people 'Register' for their weddings, babies, etc but instead of items, people just buy points for the lucky bride (or mother).  Then they use an Amazon-like interface to

spend

 those points on whatever they want.  It's basically a way that facilitates the event, but without the limitations of a single store (like the Bay) and instead lets you spend your points on ANYTHING.  It would also track it nicely so that you could send thank you notes and all that other girly stuff that you have to do when you go through this kind of thing...

That's all for this post.  I have more, and I'll be posting more as I go.  If you know someone that you think may want one of these, let me know.  I seriously don't need these anymore, and would love to see someone get some good use out of them.  My ideas shouldn't cost me money!

 
 
 

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