Now it appears you can just Tweet to register a domain name.
Tweetname.com, says
Its the fastest way to register a domain name
Just tweet a direct message to @tweetname with the domain you want.
If it’s available, we’ll register it for you.
The service is powered by Enom.
How it works
First, register with Tweetname and put a credit card on file.
Then use Twitter to send a private direct message to @tweetname with the domain you want.
If it’s available, we’ll register it for you. If it’s not, we’ll let you know privately.”
You can even text to register a domain
You send a text to Twitter at 40404.
$9.95 is the price to register a .com
I think its a pretty cool idea, I haven’t tried it to see how long it takes to register a domain from the time its tweeted or the text is sent.
You can check out a video on the service here
Texting to register a domain I have thought for a while would be very convenient when your out and about and have a domain that just pops into your head and kind of suprised that none of the big registrars have offered it yet.
What do you guys think?
Twitter will be suing to get that domain name. > http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/10/in-battle-over-the-tweet-trademark-twitter-sues-twittad/
The ingenuity & creativity of others never ceases to amaze me…awesome idea.
so, also mistakes should be much faster
I like the idea, but don’t think I would ever use the service to register a domain. I put a lot of research into a name I’m going to “hand register,” so I would want to know immediately if the registration was successful or not.
A useful and worthwhile service . . . for those domains you don’t mind risking someone else (since; apparently; at least one human is involved in this reg procedure) beating you to.
Accordingly, I’ll never use it.
Having been doing this for years via API through free service like textmarks.com. Very easy and done through your own registrars api.
I think I’ll stick with the Name.com Android app, but thanks.
🙂
This is a solution to a problem that doesnt exist.
I think it is only a matter of time until enom starts registering the domain names that people send them “FOR THEMSELVES” then start sending the “sorry but the name was not available” emails. Suprised oversee/snap/moniker never thought of this. Halvarez woulda loved this one
Haha..I think it is great idea but yeah…sorry unfortunately integrity seems to have its limits in this day and age and there have been similar creations who have been known to register domains based on entries made be would be buyers. Perhaps a better idea would be to tweet a a domain name for sale and TweetName could retweet your domain for sale, perhaps not a lot of loot in it…but I would certainly buy into it if the numbers were right….Kev
Mike, tweentname has been around for a while now. Pud aka Philip Kaplan, the guy that ran fuckedcompany.com, started it
.TK is FREE and for the Twitter Kingdom
Just registered http: // thebigliesociety. tk
“First, register with Tweetname and put a credit card on file.”
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“Credit Card” ? you are joking right ?
Why would people pay Registrars or ICANN for the names they “own” ?
You do “own” your domains, don’t you ?
I bumped into this post by accident today because i was researching Tweet related technologies.
Well folks! As funky as TweetName.com services may sound, I wouldn’t at all be surprised if they just may be on to something. Domainers are very unlikely to ever use this service, however your average john doe is a different matter all together!
The reason I suspect this could work is most people honestly still don’t know how to register a domain, even though the web has been around for 15 years commercially. I’m saying graduates and most average individuals who are thinking of starting a business do not understand domain value or anything like that. They only think about registering one when the need permits and that’s it! Trust me guy’s most of my learned friends in their 20’s to late 30’s have no idea whatsoever and they are all professional! So don’t be surprised if this works because it taps into the Twitter Ecosystem. If you are not thinking on how to utilise Twitter API for your business or start up, you could be missing the next massive paradigm in Social Media Platforms & Enterprise. Facebook is the other one where tons of apps have already become big businesses in less than 4 years. Twitter just bought TweetDeck for $50M, CoTweet and others are all taking off using Twitter API to scale their utilities…. you start to get the gist? It all increases the bottom line for Twitter as it has already done for Facebook.
I wouldn’t write off Enom who owns TweetName.com just yet. infact, the most simplest ideas are usually the best! I’m looking to do the same with TweetYellowPages.com , TweetShopping.com, TweetRealEstate.com and others… so let’s see how things evolve shall we. Kudos!