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Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Yeah. Not great on iOS Chrome, fwiw...

iOS chrome is just a res lined safari, because Apple doesn’t allow real browsers to compete with them.

I thought that is no longer the case and 3rd party web engines are now first class citizens on iOS. Firefox-iOS works great, for example.

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Is English your second language? I guess everyone is more suspicious since GPT-3 came out and a bunch of people made ML generated blog posts etc. FWIW I found your comment understandable.

Not a second language. But spent the last decade largely speaking a second (or third) language and/or with ESL speakers. Perhaps that's starting to rub-off! Oh dear.. Not sleeping right for the past few days may also be a factor. GPT-3 paranoia may also be a thing.

I think my problem is that many of your sentence fragments are not complete sentences. You keep dropping the Subject and/or Verb of the sentence.

In the above post, "But spent the last decade... ESL speakers.", you dropped the "I".

In your original post, you wrote: "Chatting with a friend that wants... not particularly technical." You dropped the "I" and the "was", and it was a long sentence, so it was difficult to figure out who was chatting and with whom.

You also leave out the commas before quotations, making it difficult to figure out who's saying what.

Another example: "He said all about discovery and stickiness." I'm still not sure what this means. Did he literally say, "all about discovery and stickiness"? Or do you mean that he said "all" (i.e. a lot of stuff) about the topic of "discovery and stickiness"? Or did you drop the "it is", and mean that he said, "It's all about discovery and stickiness."

Is your second language one of those languages where the Subject is often implicit in the context? I find that in written English, dropping the Subject and Verb does not work so well. I find it interesting that this would affect your written communication so much.

Many of my friends and most of my coworkers speak/spoke English as a second language. When speaking to them, I would find myself using simpler words and simpler grammar (e.g. simple past tense instead of past perfect progressive tense). But when writing to them, most of them can read English perfectly well, and often know the rules of English grammar better than me, so I did not have to simplify my written communication.

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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post #152

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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?

People can't remember them, so they go to Google and accept whatever Google returns.

Ditto.

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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I 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 a…

What I'd really want is this service but put "software", "capital", "health", "app", etc. at the end of each domain. I bet there are some pretty interesting company names available if you add a suffix.

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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post #60

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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 a…

What I'd really want is this service but put "software", "capital", "health", "app", etc. at the end of each domain. I bet there are some pretty interesting company names available if you add a suffix.

I'm thinking of showing suffixes like that once you click on a result that you like. Is that what you are envisioning as well?
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