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Domains for the Rest of Us
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Re: Domains for the Rest of Us
#52If anyone still wants a simple cool TLD .com, try out names with hyphens. They're almost completely unexplored and I personally see no downside (except typing the domain in a mobile keyboard but who types domains anyways).
I consult for a business with a hyphen in the name. Not recommended, as its a constant source of confusion for customers.
It might be fine for a personal site etc, but be mindful that lots of people still don't understand that websites other than .com exist (i.e. don't get a .io domain if you want to sell to the general public).
Re: Domains for the Rest of Us
#53If anyone still wants a simple cool TLD .com, try out names with hyphens. They're almost completely unexplored and I personally see no downside (except typing the domain in a mobile keyboard but who types domains anyways).
huge downside: you have to say the hyphen explicitly out loud, and if a site exists without the hyphen, you'll get lots of mistakes. Are you thinking that everyone only gets to sites from actual hyperlinks rather than via human speech?
but does this really matter in a world where people basically Google every business anyways to get to the homepage?
I feel like everyone around me will Google whenever they hear about a cool app, website, store, product etc.
or we're charting online or talking on Zoom and they'll just send me the link directly
I'm not sure what the purpose of a URL is anymore... unless you're this guy [1]
Re: Domains for the Rest of Us
#54Party game idea: Pitch products based on the domain names generated by this site.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Typing a domain or having a preference for a browser, perhaps more IT in background, is a huge generational gap. EDIT as I seem to be a computer! Let me explain a recent conversation, one of several, that illustrated this. /EDIT Chatting with a friend that wants an app for his small business, just a 3 page app with a contact form: His clients are mainly 20s, mainly early 20s, not particularly technical. Most (so, aro…
That's an interesting writing style.
This has to be a machine.
Re: Domains for the Rest of Us
#56Spermatolite.com
I can see having some fun coming up with the business behind a domain name.
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#57For the curious, there's a number of other helpful domain name generators https://www.saashub.com/domainsfortherestofus-alternatives . They are not AI generated but rather free names with suitable prefixes or suffixes.
FYI: parent is the founder of SaaShub. It’s considered courteous to disclose any affiliations you have, when self promoting.
Yup, you are absolutely right. I'm sorry about that. I usually do disclose it. I just forgot now.
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#58This is fun. But most of them look like new drug names to me :)
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#59Very curious to hear about the training set for these. If I had to guess, someone scraped GoDaddy/Google Domains/Namecheap for the "premium domains" that are being squatted on and then trained a language model on that corpus. Hopefully the OP can provide details!
It looks to me like it is finding nonsense words that are pronounceable to English speakers and then checking if that nonsense word is available. I assume a linguist programmer could create an algorithm to come up with pronounceable words. Is there a word for a nonsense word that is pronounceable? A potential word?
There's more to it than just pronounceable. e.g. I got tranclitic, mysothelium, gurnt,
1. tran- looks like reanalysis of words that begin with trans-, and we often pronounce the -s with the start of the root word. Clitic is a word in and of itself.
2. myso- is a rare Greek prefix, thelium means nipple. Unfortunately, together it would suggest nipple of dirt.
3. There's a low-scored urbandictionary entry for gurnt, but that's about it.
I think there's some knowledge of morpheme-like objects in the AI.
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#60I wish there was a way to specify a prefix or suffix.
If you are looking for more control over the domain name generation process, then you may be interested in trying out a tool we recently built called Mashword (https://mashword.com).
The approach is different from this tool as it does not blindly suggest domains, but rather keys off of the words you enter. Mashword takes entered words, determines the pronunciation of the words, and then generates unique spellings and combinations using a variety of algorithms. It will also quickly run domain name availability checks and provide quick links to register the domains if they are available.