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Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

lubujackson wrote: post #68
devilmoon wrote: post #20

I think you should totally track the .it TLD, it's the Italian one but works wonderfully for word plays in English (and if iirc I've seen a few websites taking advantage of it). Some straightforward examples that come to mind would be buy.it, ship.it, design.it etc., you name(.)it ;) Edit: also, being the Italian TLD I'm guessing quite a few English words are still available

My fav now is .is, which is Iceland's cc. It has opened to everyone about a year ago (with some minimal paperwork), it's cheapish ($33 from Namecheap I believe) and makes fun domains (truth.is, acting.is). It is also one of the least squatted cc domains, likely because it isn't available from most places like GoDaddy. It also doesn't hurt that Iceland is a stable, independent and protective of rights. I worry about .…

Interesting - you're not the first person to recommend the .is TLD! I'll certainly look into it add it if there's enough demand for it! Thanks for letting me know!

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by donmcronald »

steventey wrote: post #12
anzhelika18 wrote: post #5

I love how "extra-small.com" is the only .com domain left - only goes to show how scarce .com domains are these days :/

I know! Would love some suggestions on how to fix this though - or should I just scrap the whole .com section altogether?

Maybe you could do something with 2 words that are short, easy to spell, easy to pronounce, and memorable. I was able to register an 8 letter .com like that (2x 4-letter words) a couple years ago.

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by donmcronald »

walrus01 wrote: post #28

This reminds me a bit of http://www.taco.com which is delightfully 1996 vintage design. I wonder how much money they've been offered to sell or lease the domain for something like ubereats/doordash Mexican food delivery.

And it's using Cloudflare! Hopefully it's Cloudflare --> Basement Closet. Lol.

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by joering2 »

steventey wrote: post #44
Klinky wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been moving domains from Namecheap to Porkbun due to ever increasing renewal prices, it's something like $5 cheaper per domain with Porkbun. I didn't see the 15x increase you saw though.

Hmmm...I'm debating between Porkbun, Iwantmyname and Domain.com - which one do you guys think I should add next?

Suggest checking out Dynadot - they always run some promos and I typically get .com for 99 cents first year. Then they are $8.99 including proxy/privacy.

I had many of issues over the years that were flawlessly solved with Dynadot chat support. Issues I was unable to fix with NameCheap (who has all customer support team in Eastern-block of Europe, so "made in America" does not apply), and also GoDaddy gave me issues. Besides I had a small back-and-forth battle here on HN with Namecheap CEO (I won), but needless to say it showed how unprofessional and childish the CEO of such popular company can be.

Also Namesilo is gaining some traction. Reliable, worth trying, but no chat help.

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by niftylettuce »

ycombinete wrote: post #19
steventey wrote: post #8

Hey everyone! Maker of One Word Domains here. I recently launched this on Product Hunt and got some pretty good feedback there and was looking forward to launching it on Hacker News as well but oh well, someone did it for me To give you guys some backstory, I was dabbling around with Flask the other day and decided to build something that I would’ve loved to use when I was trying to find a good name for my startup -…

Hey this is really cool. I’ve recently started learning python as a hobby, with the goal to eventually start full stack development. I was just wondering, since this is your first web app, how long have you been coding for/how long did it take to get up and running?

See https://lad.js.org for FS dev, I built https://forwardemail.net with it, which is also completely open source on Github

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

niftylettuce wrote: post #76
ycombinete wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey this is really cool. I’ve recently started learning python as a hobby, with the goal to eventually start full stack development. I was just wondering, since this is your first web app, how long have you been coding for/how long did it take to get up and running?

See https://lad.js.org for FS dev, I built https://forwardemail.net with it, which is also completely open source on Github

This is super cool, thanks for sharing!! :D

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

donmcronald wrote: post #73
walrus01 wrote: post #28

This reminds me a bit of http://www.taco.com which is delightfully 1996 vintage design. I wonder how much money they've been offered to sell or lease the domain for something like ubereats/doordash Mexican food delivery.

And it's using Cloudflare! Hopefully it's Cloudflare --> Basement Closet. Lol.

Cloudflare for the win! :D

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

donmcronald wrote: post #72
steventey wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know! Would love some suggestions on how to fix this though - or should I just scrap the whole .com section altogether?

Maybe you could do something with 2 words that are short, easy to spell, easy to pronounce, and memorable. I was able to register an 8 letter .com like that (2x 4-letter words) a couple years ago.

Yup! I mentioned this in a previous comment but I'm thinking of training a deep learning model on the top 10,000 startup names and use it to generate available .com domain names that could potentially be in the format of a two-word domain too! Not sure how feasible this is gonna be but I'm definitely gonna give it a try!

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by anamexis »

steventey wrote: post #58
hocuspocus wrote: post #27

> Filter by: all alphabets Those are letters, not alphabets.

Wait, really? I've always thought those two words were interchangeable. Should I change it from "alphabets" to "letters" to avoid misleading users?

Yeah - Latin, Cyrillic, and Hebrew are alphabets.

You wouldn't say "My name starts with the alphabet M."

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