Show HN: The remaining unregistered one-word .com domains • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: The remaining unregistered one-word .com domains

#21

Post by maxcellent » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 8:56 PM UTC

theyCallMeSwift wrote: post #20

For those that are curious, here's ~1400 of them: https://gist.github.com/theycallmeswift/6e479d61b772543aa613

Did you just ddosed them to get the list? Why there is no down vote button here?

Please respect others' work. Writing a scraper nowadays is not cool any more!

Re: Show HN: The remaining unregistered one-word .com domains

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Post by droque » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 8:57 PM UTC

theyCallMeSwift wrote: post #20

For those that are curious, here's ~1400 of them: https://gist.github.com/theycallmeswift/6e479d61b772543aa613

The majority of them seem to be verbs.

Re: Show HN: The remaining unregistered one-word .com domains

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Post by xh208 » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 9:13 PM UTC

maxcellent wrote: post #21

theyCallMeSwift wrote: post #20

For those that are curious, here's ~1400 of them: https://gist.github.com/theycallmeswift/6e479d61b772543aa613

Did you just ddosed them to get the list? Why there is no down vote button here? Please respect others' work. Writing a scraper nowadays is not cool any more!

Considered putting in A mechanism to limit the number of words per person but decided not to. Oh well, its the Internet, what to do eh :)

Re: Show HN: The remaining unregistered one-word .com domains

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Post by theyCallMeSwift » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 9:14 PM UTC

maxcellent wrote: post #21

theyCallMeSwift wrote: post #20

For those that are curious, here's ~1400 of them: https://gist.github.com/theycallmeswift/6e479d61b772543aa613

Did you just ddosed them to get the list? Why there is no down vote button here? Please respect others' work. Writing a scraper nowadays is not cool any more!

Nope, they actually have a public API.

Sounds like you might want to check out the FAQ for answer to your other question. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Re: Show HN: The remaining unregistered one-word .com domains

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Post by anoncoder » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 3:27 AM UTC

This rocks! There are still some great domain names. A huge time saver.

Re: Show HN: The remaining unregistered one-word .com domains

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Post by limeyx » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 6:29 PM UTC

theyCallMeSwift wrote: post #20

For those that are curious, here's ~1400 of them: https://gist.github.com/theycallmeswift/6e479d61b772543aa613

...and no one wants "benumbs.com" :)

Re: Show HN: The remaining unregistered one-word .com domains

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Post by xh208 » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 12:55 PM UTC

xh208 wrote: post #13

brador wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could we get a list on the site of those that are taken? Would be cool to see what people actually buy!

This is a great idea :) thanks

Just added this!