Alex Crocker | Domain Investor

1/9 I've been building free tools for domain investors since 2018. Not to sell anything. Just to give back to a community that taught me a lot about earning a living online. Here's what we've built at @Domaincord — all free, no login required, no data harvesting 🧵

@domaineralpha Change is live!

@LearnDomaining @domaincord 🔥!

Afternic takes a huge commission on every domain sale. We built a free tool for @domaincord that generates a self-hosted for sale landing page in seconds. - Fully private by design - Google Analytics support - Four free themes to choose from - Integrate with Formspree, Tally, or Netlify Forms - Check out with Escrow .com or Atom Pay Download it. Upload it. Keep 100% of the sale. Free → domaincord.com/landerflip/ #domaining #domains

@BoutiqueName @domaincord Nope, it’s free!

@LearnDomaining @domaincord Charges?

Nice, this could easily be used by real estate investors for scouting new locations remotely! #realestate

@domaineralpha @domaincord Yeah, I can do that this weekend!

@LearnDomaining @domaincord Can you add Plausible or other open source analytics?

For every person who is activating a claw at home there are millions of people who can't even figure out how to move their favorite apps to the first page of their phone

@asaio87 Not sure why you admitted this...

My startup was hacked! I launched my own social media scheduler and management tool. It started making money, the users were happy, and all was good, but today I woke up to a hacked website Somebody managed to get a free trial, then canceled it, and then posted 50 Instagram and 20 TikToks without any payment I opened up Claude, and we discovered the issue: there was a parameter that would invalidate the membership validity check if passed when posting I fixed the issue and blocked this user, and he only managed to publish just 45 automated posts on social media using my app The internet is full of people trying these things and pushing the security boundaries Now I'm writing code with latest version of Gemini but im going to use Grok instead, plus Calude to review things Im not going to copy-paste code anymore into production. And for the guy that tried this, the app is super cheap compared to alternatives, so not sure why you need to try these tricks, try just 7 days for 0$

I have the resources to build it now but I'd love to brainstorm with all of you domain investors about a Domain API. The idea is to create our own MLS that anyone can pull from, you as the domain owner keep your inventory updated, TXT record verification, Categories, folders, filters cont.

@namefi_io nomad.guide (dynadot expired auction)

Serously, what's the most exciting domain you acquired this week? Please don't send a full list, only one. If you have more, feel free to drop a portfolio URL along with it. Putting BIN is encouraged - some one may like it and buy it immediately!

@MarieMartens @TallyForms @claudeai Works well, I like that Claude Code can just create entire contextually relevant forms in my account for embedding in a website build without having to manually create them.

@LearnDomaining @TallyForms @claudeai yeah could be! How is your experience building with Claude + Tally?

Last month we welcomed 100,000 new @TallyForms users 🤯 And once again, AI became our #1 acquisition channel, driving 35% of new signups. One thing that stood out: new users discovering Tally via @claudeai. In our onboarding survey, mentions of Claude as the discovery source grew 6x in just 7 weeks. Gemini is starting to rise too, but Claude is clearly driving the biggest jump right now.

@NickScheifler @LanDor999 @AndrewYang Exactly!

@LanDor999 @AndrewYang What you're really saying is *you* want less of the bad parts of AI that you are being intentionally shown in the media. But we all want to solve more intractable problems and AI is our best hope to do so

We should stop taxing human labor and start taxing the bots. blog.andrewyang.com/p/tax-the-bots

1/ If you just hand-registered a domain that has zero registrations in ANY TLD …congrats, you’ve probably created a name that 8 billion people haven’t conceived of in 35+ years of internet history.

Yeah, I've heard of them. I might look into switching parking providers for files .zip, which is still parked with GoDaddy. It's the only other domain that was getting significant parking revenue that I've tried.

@LearnDomaining @ParkLogicPtyLtd might be able to help generate more Alex. Nice name.

I just pulled my domain video .net off GoDaddy Cash Parking because the parking revenue has dropped significantly over the last 6 months. When I first acquired the domain at NamesCon 2024, the parking revenue was generating around $100/mo but now it's less than 1/4 of that. In lieu of parking, I'm listing it on Atom's Sapphire marketplace, which it has been approved for. #domains

I'm claiming my AI agent "claudecode_croc" on @moltbook 🦞 Verification: den-7N6Z

There’s been a lot of talk about how code is becoming a commodity now. To an extent that’s true. There’s no longer any excuse to not build that new tool, SaaS, directory, or project. Vibe coding tools like Claude Code and Codex are so powerful and are finally good enough to get REAL work done. Nobody cares about your cool new thing you prompted together because it’s just bytes now. Anyone can do it. You no longer have to be a nerd with a CompSci degree to build apps. Do I know what the solution to the upcoming job crisis is? Nope, nobody knows for sure. Ai and robotics probably is going to replace a LOT of jobs. But I do know that it’s not too late to get onboard with “vibe coding” to escape the rat race before it actually is too late. #HardTruths #VibeCoding #programming #ai

I just applied to @ABCSharkTank. 3 days ago I was pulling wire in Kentucky. Then @mcuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and personally introduced me to Shark Tank casting. Today I submitted my application for Season 18. Here's the wild part: I'm not a tech founder. I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. Zero coding background. I built @EV_ChargeRight — a $12.99 tool that saves homeowners $3,000-$5,000 on unnecessary electrical panel upgrades before EV charger installs. 70% of EV owners don't need the upgrade they're being sold. The math proves it. NEC 220.82. I built the entire product with @AnthropicAI's Claude. No dev team. No funding. Just a tradesman with a problem worth solving. This week: - 860K+ views on my story - 16K likes - 2.4K reposts - Mark Cuban in my DMs A week ago I was just an electrician with an idea and a laptop. Now I'm applying to pitch in the Tank. If you're in the trades and thinking about building something — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill. It's believing you're allowed to try.

@benvspak Which startup did you submit to YC?

Happy YC rejection day!