Ask HN: What to do with my defunct startup's domain?

4 pointspresidentender1y ago5 comments

I shut down my company (Stage, heystage.com) back in December. It feels silly to keep renewing the domain, but it also feels silly to let it lapse; since only one of those decisions is reversible, I'm paying to renew it.

What should I do with the .com of a now-shuttered business?

5 comments

kernelcurry1y ago

Keep it - Costs you less than $20 a year, might give you good (or cautionary) memories, and one day someone might want to buy it off you for real money.

DarrenDev1y ago

Keep it just for the email addresses and accounts you may have opened using those email addresses. If you don't, there'll be something you've missed and you won't find out for 6 months. But drop the website.

I have a number of zombie domains that I keep just for that reason.

KomoD1y ago

If you have any accounts on the domain, then yeah probably keep. That's what I'd do at least.

brudgers1y ago

Zombie businesses don’t make bootie calls. Let it go and move on. Good luck.

langcss1y ago

DHH may buy it :-)

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