Marketplace for premium startup domain names
Sold a few domains at a profit and then launched a site selling high-quality startup names to fund other ventures.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Directories and marketplacesLow confidence54% surex
- Earns from
- One-time salesLow confidence49% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- Over $10kLow confidence37% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Hands-off63% surex
- Where
- Online99% surex
- Coding
- Needs coding75% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by brandables in “Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?”, December 11, 2016
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