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Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Post by pfarrell » Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 3:14 PM UTC

irrational wrote: post #46

dwrodri wrote: post #26

Very 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?

Side note. Searching for a pronounceable password generator [0] is how I discovered the excellent, historical multicians.org site.

0: https://multicians.org/thvv/gpw-js.html

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Post by skipants » Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 3:24 PM UTC

culturestate wrote: post #160

junon wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

alternate unbrided.com: First ever DaaS - divorce as a service. Only one endpoint, DELETE /v1/marriage.

Someone, somewhere, must be working on this, right? LegalZoom for divorce?

https://amicable.io/

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Post by ted0 » Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 3:43 PM UTC

Love this. Thanks for sending folx to Namecheap for the registration :)

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Post by jedimastert » Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 3:49 PM UTC

Just picked up a domain.

Do you use affiliate links? I would be happy to toss you the few cents or whatever if you do, but if you do you should disclose it.

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Post by mr__y » Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 3:56 PM UTC

yummybear wrote: post #154

Cpoll wrote: post #54

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

I got "reticuloendothelium.com" - any ideas?

Support forum for dyslexia sufferers

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Post by ulzeraj » Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 4:04 PM UTC

b5 wrote: post #139

Cpoll wrote: post #54

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.

> cointrauma.com: Crowdsourced counselling for cryptocurrency-related upsets.

Make it on a blockchain.

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Post by retzkek » Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 4:41 PM UTC

zhte415 wrote: post #62

atomi wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's an interesting writing style.

This is weird. I've had this comment here before, not a lot, but once every few months. What is it in particular? Punctuation? Adjective clauses? No, I am not a computer.

Are you a Salarian? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgCMgl0QDXQ

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Post by ThePadawan » Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 4:50 PM UTC

CrazyStat wrote: post #173

ThePadawan wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Well yes, there were additionally special characters and numbers in the passwords.

This was also before the internet and for less than 100 students. Not used for any homework or graded work whatsoever.

I'm sure if you cracked a password you could steal someone's Blobby Volley.exe, but that's about it.

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Post by mwcampbell » Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 6:01 PM UTC

mkeeter wrote: post #174

Cpoll wrote: post #54

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

waferpunk.com: DIY semiconductor fabrication

That should actually be a thing!

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Post by macintux » Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 6:24 PM UTC

ted0 wrote: post #183

Love this. Thanks for sending folx to Namecheap for the registration :)

Well, you got at least one new customer through this. Thanks for making it pretty easy to sign up & buy.