About Dead.Domains

What is Dead.Domains?

Dead.Domains is a public graveyard for abandoned side projects and domains. Pay a one-time $1 to bury a project and get a permanent tombstone page with a screenshot, cause of death and a contact form. Buyers browse the graveyard and message owners directly to take over the domain, code or idea.

Who runs it?

Dead.Domains is built and run by Peter Nagy, an indie developer based in Budapest, Hungary. The service is operated by Questly Kft., a Hungarian company (tax number 32757402-1-42).

Why does it exist?

Most side projects don't fail loudly. They stop getting commits, the domain auto-renews for a few more years, and the landing page slowly rots. Dead.Domains gives those projects a proper ending: a public record of what was built and why it stopped, and a way for someone else to pick up the domain, the code or the idea.

How does burying a project work?

  1. Enter the project's domain, name, years and cause of death, and write an epitaph.
  2. Pay the one-time $1 fee. The tombstone page is published straight away with a screenshot of your old landing page.
  3. Optionally point the domain at the tombstone with a CNAME record, and add a DNS TXT record to earn a verified checkmark.
  4. Interested buyers use the contact form on your grave, and you negotiate with them directly.

Who writes the blog?

Posts on The Obituary Desk are drafted with AI assistance from a topic list we pick, using real statistics from the graveyard, and reviewed against editorial rules: every named source must be linked, and posts don't invent personal stories.

Contact

Questions, takedown requests or press: email [email protected]. You can also follow along on X.