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Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by CodeSgt »

_andrei_ wrote: post #47

But is it a good one? There are better methods for finding an actually good domain name, you just have to think outside the box and come up with new ideas constantly. For example these domains should be available wink wink : editormag.com geekyglossary.com infiniteiterator.com infographics365.com minutequestions.com museumology.com onlinehistorian.com webdesigndaily.com donateyourcomputerpower.com lazysites.com scorc…

> you just have to think outside the box and come up with new ideas constantly.

This is something that, to my great shame, I've always struggled with. Any recommendations for improving in this area?

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by dreilide »

hnbad wrote: post #35
logifail wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

:) I'm thinking of branding - think Google, Pepsi, Adidas, Nike, Starbucks You'd really prefer to attempt build a brand around SearchEngine.tld or RunningShoe.tld ?

Booking.com would like to disagree.

as well as

hotels.com trip.com

Re: Find a good available .com domain

#63

Post by the_duke »

marban wrote: post #18
the_duke wrote: post #2

Under what license is that file? Could one make a webservice based on the data? Edit to clarify: I'm envisioning a open source service that uses an in-browser sqlite database [1] so you don't have to worry about a predatory middle party reserving the domains you searched for. [1] https://sql.js.org/#/

You can, but you're ~25 years too late.

Sure, I'm aware that there are lots of domain search sites.

I edited my comment to clarify what I envisioned.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by pmoriarty »

lelanthran wrote: post #59
pmoriarty wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It's safer - "cat" is a read-only operation, once you've written that command up-front there is no longer a risk of overwriting the original file with a typo in the rest of the pipeline." With zsh you can prevent such accidents by "setopt NO_CLOBBER" The result is that if you "foo > bar" and "bar" exists, zsh will refuse to overwrite "bar" and give you an error: "zsh: file exists: bar" This makes constructs such "fo…

That doesn't help with sed -i and similar things. Zsh stops redirection errors, it won't help even if cat is in the front.

"That doesn't help with sed -i and similar things."

Can you give an example? I don't know what you mean.

"Zsh stops redirection errors"

Which is what the post I was answering to was complaining about, wasn't it?

"it won't help even if cat is in the front"

Why not? "cat > foo" will error out if "foo" exists and NO_CLOBBER is set.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by jwilk »

chipaca wrote: post #15
Tempest1981 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Not every word list package has "words for /usr/share/dict" in the description.

  $ grep-aptavail -wF Provides wordlist -s Package,Description | tbl-dctrl 
  +===================+=======================================================+
  | Package           | Description                                           |
  +-------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
  | wbulgarian        | Bulgarian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict        |
  | wbrazilian        | Brazilian Portuguese wordlist                         |
  | wdanish           | The Comprehensive Danish Dictionary (DSDO) - wordlist |
  | wdutch            | list of Dutch words                                   |
  | wesperanto        | Esperanto dictionary words for /usr/share/dict        |
  | wogerman          | Traditional German wordlist                           |
  | wngerman          | New German orthography wordlist                       |
  | wswiss            | Swiss (German) orthography wordlist                   |
  | wpolish           | Polish dictionary words for /usr/share/dict           |
  | wfaroese          | Faroese dictionary / wordlist                         |
  | wgalician-minimos | Wordlist for Galician (minimos)                       |
  | wukrainian        | Ukrainian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict        |
  | wportuguese       | European Portuguese wordlist                          |
  | wgerman-medical   | German medical dictionary words for /usr/share/dict   |
  | miscfiles         | Dictionaries and other interesting files              |
  | wnorwegian        | Norwegian word list                                   |
  | wamerican         | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wamerican-huge    | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wamerican-insane  | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wamerican-large   | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wamerican-small   | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wbritish          | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict  |
  | wbritish-huge     | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict  |
  | wbritish-insane   | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict  |
  | wbritish-large    | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict  |
  | wbritish-small    | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict  |
  | wcanadian         | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wcanadian-huge    | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wcanadian-insane  | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wcanadian-large   | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wcanadian-small   | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wcatalan          | Catalan dictionary words for /usr/share/dict          |
  | wswedish          | Swedish dictionary words for /usr/share/dict          |
  | wfrench           | French dictionary words for /usr/share/dict           |
  | witalian          | Italian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict/         |
  | wspanish          | Spanish dictionary words for /usr/share/dict          |
  +===================+=======================================================+

Re: Find a good available .com domain

#67

Post by xcambar »

_andrei_ wrote: post #47

But is it a good one? There are better methods for finding an actually good domain name, you just have to think outside the box and come up with new ideas constantly. For example these domains should be available wink wink : editormag.com geekyglossary.com infiniteiterator.com infographics365.com minutequestions.com museumology.com onlinehistorian.com webdesigndaily.com donateyourcomputerpower.com lazysites.com scorc…

> you just have to think outside the box and come up with new ideas constantly.

This is the problem, not the solution.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by gtirloni »

DeathArrow wrote: post #45
ramraj07 wrote: post #36

A tip I discovered - use hyphens, and suddenly very small nice domains become available. No one types domains anyway. Also does anyone know how to get a shady domain parking service to give up on a domain they’ve been holding for decades? I’m actually happy to pay 500 but not thousands and it’s not even a domain that a company or commercial interest would want to purchase.

>No one types domains anyway. I do, at least the first letters until the browser completes the rest. And if no one types domains, why do you need a short domain name anyway?

Aesthetics.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by ajonit »

dochtman wrote: post #25

Alternatively, use instantdomainsearch.com (disclosure, I'm the CTO), which packages most of these things up in a fast web interface and also enables searching in a bunch of other TLDs.

Just wanted to say thank you for this service. Have been using this site for several years now. Perhaps the first place I visit whenever I need to research a domain name, have recommended it to tons of people already.

Do you have any write up on its tech stack?

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by [deleted] »

xcambar wrote: post #67
_andrei_ wrote: post #47

But is it a good one? There are better methods for finding an actually good domain name, you just have to think outside the box and come up with new ideas constantly. For example these domains should be available wink wink : editormag.com geekyglossary.com infiniteiterator.com infographics365.com minutequestions.com museumology.com onlinehistorian.com webdesigndaily.com donateyourcomputerpower.com lazysites.com scorc…

> you just have to think outside the box and come up with new ideas constantly. This is the problem, not the solution.

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