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Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given the constant pattern and size none of those aspects contribute to the search domain size. 21 ^ 3 * 5 ^ 3 = 1157625 possible combinations.

I'm sorry, I don't get your point.

That's a very small search space and the passwords would be easily brute-forceable if there isn't some strong rate limiting.

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Party game idea: Pitch products based on the domain names generated by this site.

cointrauma.com : Crowdsourced counselling for cryptocurrency-related upsets. wettiness.com : Using machine learning to accurately rate the dampness of objects in photos.

dampages.com: Looks like Wettiness has competitors!

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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I feel tempted to buy kleptosphere.com just to imagine someone's confusion the day they would want to buy it but get greeted with a "Sorry, this domain name is taken" instead.

Similar theme, I grabbed griftware.com when the site generated it. No idea what I’d use it for.

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Yeah, I used to speculate in domain names, and the ones that are coming up remind me of the crap ones I used to register before I knew what I was doing. Every once in a while you come up with unused ones that really stick out (like I remember there was "atomictangerine.com"), but otherwise I would recommend trying something more recognizable in a different tld (like "helloworld.blue" or something—there are a lot thes…

In your experience of speculating, have you come across any data about the frequency of people actually typing out domain names? I seem to be typing them less and less over time. Are we headed towards a business phone number 515-555-5555.com being a totally sufficient unique domain name? And then well why not just skip TLDs and share IP addresses?

I do get the feeling having a domain is almost more about TLS than the name these days

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Yeah, I used to speculate in domain names, and the ones that are coming up remind me of the crap ones I used to register before I knew what I was doing. Every once in a while you come up with unused ones that really stick out (like I remember there was "atomictangerine.com"), but otherwise I would recommend trying something more recognizable in a different tld (like "helloworld.blue" or something—there are a lot thes…

Is there a market for niche TLD domains? If so, who are the people buying / using them? "helloworld.blue" sounds completely worthless to me. Even "hello.blue" - who would buy that for more than a few hundred dollars, and for what?

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