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The domain graveyard. Thousands of domains disappear every day

Field Note #051
🟢 Beginner ⏱ 5 Minutes ✓ Industry Best Practice
Thousands of domains disappear every day. Not because someone stole them. Because someone waited too long.
StartSomeday.com. PerfectConditions.com. AlmostLaunched.com. All available once. All gone.
Here’s how it happens: someone registers a domain, parks it, forgets to renew. It expires. Goes to auction. A squatter picks it up the same day. You search for it six months later and it’s $3,499 on the aftermarket — or it’s just gone entirely.
The part people underestimate: when you lose the domain, you don’t just lose a URL. Your pitch deck has the name on it. Your business cards. Your social handles. Replacing all of that costs more than the $15/year renewal would have.
Register the domain the day you name the thing. The website doesn’t have to be built. The business doesn’t have to be launched. The domain is the claim.
Ideas wait. The internet doesn’t.
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