Decision time

You... you shut up. 🥲

Use your domain for your primary email address, have some regrets about it, but never be able to walk away..

On the flip side my husband has held on to the domain he got for 22 YEARS., and never did anything with it. We finally got our emails up and running with it last week. Don’t let your dreams be dreams!

You know what's worse? Starting a successful one that makes a whole ass salary and then having google updates smack it the f out.

lol I’ve been squatting a couple of domains since 2001, my day will come!!!

Start selfhosting. I use my domain for tons of stuff

More like "Dammit, my domain auto-remewed again. Oh well, it's only $12. I'll cancel next year." (It's been 5 years.)

Nooo, one day I'll have the time to build my writing utensil repair business.
And then I'll need the domain penisbroken.com

Don't worry, the dream lives on!

VancesCouchSloppySeconds.com is still available!!!

Oh this one cuts.

$12? I pay $20 for mine.

Wanted to start a blog about my weight loss journey. Lost the weight and never started the blog. Still paying for the domain 7 years later.

Only thing left to do is gain the weight back so I can try again!

Mine is on automatic renewal.

To a debit card on an account I closed months ago

Check. Mate.

bought my domain in July... still havent finished my website...

This is why I never bought a domain. Can't give up on your dreams if you never pursued them in the first place!

CatBagz.com is in this photograph and I don't like it.

What, no one really wants to purchase cat faced bags from a guy on the internet that doesn't like cats all that much and doesn't use bags all that much and can't social media and mostly just wants to stop being a fucking company shill but no I'm so fucking good at it that's my job and my life forever.

Fuck you, dreams. I'm taking cat bags to my fucking grave.

At least my red bubble stickers sell.

Neither. If I'm not using the domain, I can pretend I still have it.

I let one of mine expire a few years ago. Finally decided I wanted to try to register it again, but a squatter is now sitting on it asking for something like $10k $3.6k.

Edit: just double-checked, they lowered the price to only $3595!

This whole thread is a gem. So many amazing websites. It's inspired me to make a website and hopefully be a repo for all your websites like the old internet

The domain was always for me to archive the things I enjoyed.

https://scratch-that.org/

Easy decision, I pay every time.

I still have a number of domains that I registered aspirationally for projects I never really started.

But if I don't renew what will become of sneakymonkeybutt.net

You can pry cuteredpanda.com from my cold dead hands.

my domain is my media server, so id rather not end my domain.

I was tempted to get a domain tie it to a docker image on azure then host a private (just me) Lemmy /(m)/kbin with a few other fediverse (like friendica) on it but I'm just too broke at the moment

ok genuine question from someone who wants to make a website but has no experience in it other than a HTML class and doesn't want to resort to a cushy GUI based website maker, How do I make a website? I'm not talking about the HTML, I got that part down. I'm talking about how do I actually get a domain and host? I tried doing it and got like a $5 domain, but the host was like $30 for a year which was too much for me and couldn't figure out how to selfhost with my extremely limited knowledge. Is that just what it costs to have a website or is there an easier way?

20 domains and counting (just got another one yesterday lmao)

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

I gave up on factamatic.org, my note taking app many many years ago, basically what obsidian is now. I suffer from a lack of execution.

Now think, patents are similar things but for with more money. And imagine if someone else had similar idea and made slightly similar website you go sue them coz you had the idea first.

Just buy it for ten years. You're ultimately saving money and it'll give you more time to incubate your dream!

github allows a free website through their domain

Truer words never spoken

On one hand I have my personal firstname-lastname-dot-com I'm still hosting for years. I'm not a webdev but WordPress is awfully bloated and everything else needs a touch of webdev skills.

So it's been at "coming soon I'm working on it welcome to sample example theme page" for years, but hey it's indexing well based on age alone!

The other is a fun clever one I route through cloudflare to access all my home server stuff via HTTPS over TailScale. Never have to expose any ports to the big scary world wide web. :p

Pay $12, can't let some other jerk have my dream.

i did recently go through and turn off auto renewal on a few. I still have several projects i never launched though that I'm holding out hope for... someday

I'm definitely getting my blog going regularly again... next year...

automatic renewal but now I'm questioning it...

I should take some time and find another redirect for http://notreddit.com