[mindcrime]

I used to own over 100 domains, but I've let a lot of the registrations expire. Most of them were just random ideas I had that were, at best, in the category of "I might use this for something one day". But the nebulous "one day" kept not coming and I got tired of spending money on them year after year.

Now I probably own about 40-50 domains and most of them are ones for which I have a specific use in mind. I might not ever get around to actually using all of them, but I've gotten rid of most of the ones that were really "out there" or crazy speculative.

I have only ever sold one domain. Somebody contacted about an idle domain once, said they wanted to use it for a consulting business and asked if I'd sell it. I sold it to them for some token price... probably less than I'd spent keeping the domain registered in the first place. Usually when I decide I'm done with a domain I just let it expire and go back into the pool.

Of the "newer" tld's, the only ones I've used are .io and .ai. I have zuse.ai which I thought of using for an AI news / forums / QA site, but I haven't really had time to mess with it.

[CyberFonic]

Like you I used to register domains for every cool idea I had. Over time I learnt that unless I used them for gain, it was just a waste of money to keep them registered. I have tried to sell some of them, but as good as I thought the names were, the money being offered was not worth putting up with the tyre kicking and chiselling.

These days I focus on making what I already have generate more income. Painful lesson is that ideas and registered domains are worthless unless you deliver a product or service for which people will pay.