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Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by Termitiono »

koolba wrote: post #55
Termitiono wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You get a good and potentially expensive com domain for easy of use and not landing in spam folders. I prefer *.io domains for non critical things.

The renewal fees for .io domains are a scamola. Last I checked it was $50+/year.

I was referring to the initial price of a good .com domain.

That will cost you a few thousand dollars if you are not lucky, which you are not if you need to use a hyphen

But a renewal price for 50$/year for a business doesn't matter.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by ghoomketu »

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.

Your site is really great.

Please consider creating an API with possibly a free tier. Right now I have to use godaddy api and it's so darn slow (plus I don't like using godaddy for many of the reasons for which they are so infamous).

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by indigodaddy »

Imo, .net domains are also just fine, and often just look/feel/sound better than the .com counterpart. They also kind of feel more personal. For my personal domain name I chose .net even though the .com was available because the .net just felt and sounded right, and more personal.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by helloguillecl »

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.

I’ve done just that.

I own currency-calc.com, which I find even better than the non hypen version of the name name.

I think for generic name domains are fantastic, but maybe not for a brand.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by superasn »

karlerss wrote: post #21

I wish someone just distributed a recent .com zone file.

Hopefully with a way to patch it from the last download so you don't have to download the whole thing over and over. I wouldn't mind paying $5 / month for a service like this - for helping me avoid the red tape.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by 256DEV »

One of my hobbies is the diametric opposite of this approach, I enjoy trawling domain auctions for short .coms that don't include any dictionary words but still sound fun. I love names like Quora that are meaningless but still somehow feel like they should be a real word! I believe the academic category for these is "lexical gap". During the pandemic I got a little too much into it and so now I'm actually busy working on a site to list them for sale - https://wuzmo.com - the plan is to make it essentially a cheap brandbucket.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by probably_wrong »

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.

Only as long as you don't plan to offer e-mail under that domain.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by rodnim »

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.

And Apple.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by eterm »

256DEV wrote: post #77

One of my hobbies is the diametric opposite of this approach, I enjoy trawling domain auctions for short .coms that don't include any dictionary words but still sound fun. I love names like Quora that are meaningless but still somehow feel like they should be a real word! I believe the academic category for these is "lexical gap". During the pandemic I got a little too much into it and so now I'm actually busy workin…

Quora is a real word, it is the plural of Quorum.
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