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Re: Ask: The hunt for good domain names

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Post by T2P » Fri, Mar 25, 2011, 7:51 AM UTC

I make it a point not to buy a domain I don't have a use for. There has been ~50-75 domains I checked in the last month that were nothing but godaddy parked domain pages. That being said, I usually just pick some words and phrases I like, and hit the thesaurus. If you're persistent and lucky, you'll hit a good+available .com

Re: Ask: The hunt for good domain names

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Post by revorad » Fri, Mar 25, 2011, 8:16 AM UTC

I have a few although I'm not sure they would be good for you. If you can tell me what sort of domain name you want (some theme, keywords etc) I can find good names which are available.

Trust me, I'm really good at this.

Re: Ask: The hunt for good domain names

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Post by joshu » Fri, Mar 25, 2011, 8:50 AM UTC

vipivip wrote: post #9

DailySter.com

http://burri.to/~joshua/fut.html

i should update this old thing

Re: Ask: The hunt for good domain names

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Post by joshu » Fri, Mar 25, 2011, 8:51 AM UTC

I actually built something to generate nice word-sounding nonwords and found hundreds of interesting domains. Maybe i should build a product out of that.

Re: Ask: The hunt for good domain names

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Post by jqueryin » Fri, Mar 25, 2011, 11:38 AM UTC

I generally perform a mass whois search with a bunch of keyword combinations and add some prefixes and suffixes for popular endings like LY, ER, ED, S, R, etc. I created a pretty simple PHP script for doing this which I have since made drastic improvements to, but this should get you started:

http://www.jqueryin.com/2010/04/12/finding-available-domains...

The whole thing stores to a file as well as uses a couple different WHOIS servers to avoid you getting temporarily banned by randomly picking one.

Re: Ask: The hunt for good domain names

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Post by fakelvis » Fri, Mar 25, 2011, 12:21 PM UTC

joshu wrote: post #14

I actually built something to generate nice word-sounding nonwords and found hundreds of interesting domains. Maybe i should build a product out of that.

Like Wordoid? http://wordoid.com/

It can occasionally come up with some gems and is one of the three tools I use when trying to find available domains (the others being http://domai.nr/ and http://impossibility.org/)

Re: Ask: The hunt for good domain names

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Post by fakelvis » Fri, Mar 25, 2011, 12:37 PM UTC

I knew there was a previous, related discussion.

HN Domain Exchange: Add your unused domains http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794289

Re: Ask: The hunt for good domain names

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Post by haploid » Fri, Mar 25, 2011, 1:39 PM UTC

We got our domain names by approaching the registrant and making an offer.

There are plenty of domain names that are not listed on the ripoff domain name sales sites.

Find something you like and make an offer.

Re: Ask: The hunt for good domain names

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Post by bmelton » Fri, Mar 25, 2011, 1:44 PM UTC

staunch wrote: post #8

I bought bawk.com recently but probably will use another one as it turns out. I'd sell it to you for what it cost me because I'm a fan. I'll email you details if you like it.

If that's still available, I'd gladly take it off your hands.

Re: Ask: The hunt for good domain names

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Post by biggs83 » Fri, Mar 25, 2011, 1:55 PM UTC

I recently bought kidzys.com