Find a good available .com domain

Post by Tempest1981 » Wed, Jun 08, 2022, 8:59 AM UTC

StreamBright wrote: post #8

TowerTall wrote: post #6

> If you’re on Mac, Linux, or BSD, you should have a dictionary of words at /usr/share/dict/words Why do they come with a dictionary of words?

There are some legit use cases: words is a standard file on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and is simply a newline-delimited list of dictionary words. It is used, for instance, by spell-checking programs. The words file is usually stored in /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_(Unix)

Post by gtsnexp » Wed, Jun 08, 2022, 9:00 AM UTC

Post by chipaca » Wed, Jun 08, 2022, 9:02 AM UTC

Tempest1981 wrote: post #11

StreamBright wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are some legit use cases: words is a standard file on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and is simply a newline-delimited list of dictionary words. It is used, for instance, by spell-checking programs. The words file is usually stored in /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_(Unix)

Are there other languages besides English and British?

    $ apt-cache search 'words for /usr/share/dict' | sed -e 's/^[^ ]* - //; s/ dictionary words.*//' | sort -u
    American English
    British English
    Bulgarian
    Canadian English
    Catalan
    Esperanto
    French
    German medical
    Irish (Gaeilge)
    Italian
    Manx Gaelic
    Polish
    Spanish
    Swedish
    Ukrainian

Post by capableweb » Wed, Jun 08, 2022, 9:06 AM UTC

logifail wrote: post #7

Q: Do we (still?) think that dictionary words make good choices for domain names?

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 08, 2022, 9:09 AM UTC

gtsnexp wrote: post #13

I love the comment that someone dropped on the post. One could replace the first Ruby script by a one-liner: "cat /tmp/com.txt | awk '{ print substr($1, 1, length($1) -5) }' | uniq > domains.txt"