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A list of the 5000 most commonly used domain prefix/suffix

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Re: A list of the 5000 most commonly used domain prefix/suffix

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Note to others before clicking: this list may hang your browser, it did mine (Chrome & Brave, Android; Lightning handled it fine tho I have everything turned off in that).

I used Lightning (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/acr.browser.lightning/) to open it and worked fine for me out of the box (I don't think I set any special settings for performance).

Firefox on a laptop is also fine of course, but that's a laptop.

Re: A list of the 5000 most commonly used domain prefix/suffix

#33

+24 is missing

Interesting catch, since moving to Germany I noticed some "something24"s (though only one comes to mind now) so I would indeed expect that to show up here, even if lowly ranked.

It looks like there are either no numeric pre/suffixes at all (that sounds unlikely) or they are not included? Looking through the raw I see nothing matching /[0-9]\+?$/

Re: A list of the 5000 most commonly used domain prefix/suffix

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Ha. I've been working on a project [1] for wayy too long, but the backend utilizes things like this, negative strings/words like many first & last names, word identification, basic ML, a decent pronounceability algorithm to filter junk and score what's left, etc. The back end.... is not the prettiest, but it works. Every day 's deleted domains are refined then you can search through our list. The idea is to save peop…

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Re: A list of the 5000 most commonly used domain prefix/suffix

#35

Ha. I've been working on a project [1] for wayy too long, but the backend utilizes things like this, negative strings/words like many first & last names, word identification, basic ML, a decent pronounceability algorithm to filter junk and score what's left, etc. The back end.... is not the prettiest, but it works. Every day 's deleted domains are refined then you can search through our list. The idea is to save peop…

This is cool, great work. You should add some SEO metrics (perhaps as a paid upgrade) like Moz Domain Authority, or SEMrush traffic or # of keywords the domain ranks for. Something to determine if the domain has any existing SEO value on top of being a good sounding domain.

If a domain drops long enough to be hand registered it's probably safe to assume it has no significant SEO value.

Re: A list of the 5000 most commonly used domain prefix/suffix

#36

Ha. I've been working on a project [1] for wayy too long, but the backend utilizes things like this, negative strings/words like many first & last names, word identification, basic ML, a decent pronounceability algorithm to filter junk and score what's left, etc. The back end.... is not the prettiest, but it works. Every day 's deleted domains are refined then you can search through our list. The idea is to save peop…

Thank you for this, I use (well-known registrar tool with similar/same functionality), you've incorporated the exact tasks I perform (Insights) and have surpassed that registrar's tooling in usability. Kudos.

Re: A list of the 5000 most commonly used domain prefix/suffix

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post #33

+24 is missing

Interesting catch, since moving to Germany I noticed some "something24"s (though only one comes to mind now) so I would indeed expect that to show up here, even if lowly ranked. It looks like there are either no numeric pre/suffixes at all (that sounds unlikely) or they are not included? Looking through the raw I see nothing matching /[0-9]\+?$/

I wonder who started the whole 24 thing. I know Deutsche Bank used to use it, googling "db24" gives them as the top result. Ah even www.db24.de redirects to their site.

Re: A list of the 5000 most commonly used domain prefix/suffix

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is cool, great work. You should add some SEO metrics (perhaps as a paid upgrade) like Moz Domain Authority, or SEMrush traffic or # of keywords the domain ranks for. Something to determine if the domain has any existing SEO value on top of being a good sounding domain.

If a domain drops long enough to be hand registered it's probably safe to assume it has no significant SEO value.

Would agree on that. I've ran a DB of over half a billion domains from past and present, 95% of them have no "SEO value" according to the metric tools. Anything gTLD getting dropped is mostly getting ran through an auction and/or dropcatch process which means anything available an hour after expiration is either a ccTLD that others didn't have in their DB, or for some or reason wasn't attractive to other prospectors using zone files.

Re: A list of the 5000 most commonly used domain prefix/suffix

#40

Note to others before clicking: this list may hang your browser, it did mine (Chrome & Brave, Android; Lightning handled it fine tho I have everything turned off in that).

Firefox on android handled it without issue for me.
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