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Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by platz »

256DEV wrote: post #128
productceo wrote: post #81

Programmatic land grabs like this is why people today must suffer from lack of remaining .com domain names. Nothing wrong with the writer of this post. I think this is a rational behavior that should be considered "expected". Whoever designed domain name registration/ownership model is to blame for failing to create a system which can efficiently give right domain names to people who actually need them and can use th…

Some newer TLDs like .dev or .app have a tiered pricing structure. So it becomes less economically feasible to squat the best names. They also released them in stages when the TLD first went live. This guy ( https://medium.com/@amd_2793/my-million-dollar-domain-hobby-... ) actually used Google's rankings of domain value from .app to then squat domains on two other flat priced TLDs - io and ai!

OP says you want .com

What's wrong with .org?

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by dotancohen »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #113
dash2 wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I now have a clear image of the Family Sillysaurusx. Dad is hard at work designing dildos. Mum and the kids have got a production line going. The littlest sculpts the wavy lines on the Cliterminator Pro. Finally, Benjy the dog carries the finished product over to the delivery parcel (unmarked brown paper) and drops it in. Mmmm! What's that cooking in the oven? Do I smell cherry pie?

It was actually for guys, not a dildo. Basically a silicone bag you could fill with water. Getting the shape right was the hardest part, since if you think about how to mold something like that you’ll run into a bunch of problems. Your description wasn’t far off, by the way! Thanks for the laugh.

  > Getting the shape right was the hardest part, since if you think about
  > how to mold something like that you’ll run into a bunch of problems.
Shape of the part that interfaces with the guy's anatomy? I wonder what types of problems?

How pliable is the silicone bag? Human women and men come in a variety of interface shapes yet it usually works out. Could different size bags be manufactured?

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by jliptzin »

productceo wrote: post #81

Programmatic land grabs like this is why people today must suffer from lack of remaining .com domain names. Nothing wrong with the writer of this post. I think this is a rational behavior that should be considered "expected". Whoever designed domain name registration/ownership model is to blame for failing to create a system which can efficiently give right domain names to people who actually need them and can use th…

Domains should cost $500/yr

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by andrewla »

These accounts are indeed free, but not without burdens. You need to give your address and agree to a bunch of terms in order to gain access at all, and then each time you request access to a specific piece of data you need to provide a justification and agree to another set of terms.

Interestingly, among those terms are:

> 1.3. not to use this Data, nor permit this Data to be used for any marketing purposes whatsoever.

I think the intent is to prevent the data being used for bulk mailing, but there's another section, 1.1 that specifically bans this. Choosing a domain name for a business is arguably marketing, so it seems that a close reading would disallow this.

I mean, of course, this is all unenforceable BS anyway. I'm surprised that someone hasn't gone ahead and taken this data and put it up on github or something; it all feels very theatrical.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by brycewray »

DarrenDev wrote: post #145

Or, pick two words that are not connected in any way. If you Google them as a phrase search you get nothing or close to nothing back: "word1 word2". Examples from 2 minutes on Godaddy: martianpenguins.com sallylabs.com mountainmondays.com bottlesound.com Meaningless but all available. Turn those 2 minutes into 2 hours and you'll turn up a gem.

Now I understand why PostCSS comes from people at evilmartians.com.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by DarrenDev »

brycewray wrote: post #156
DarrenDev wrote: post #145

Or, pick two words that are not connected in any way. If you Google them as a phrase search you get nothing or close to nothing back: "word1 word2". Examples from 2 minutes on Godaddy: martianpenguins.com sallylabs.com mountainmondays.com bottlesound.com Meaningless but all available. Turn those 2 minutes into 2 hours and you'll turn up a gem.

Now I understand why PostCSS comes from people at evilmartians.com.

You could respond from goodmartian.com. Available.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by dotancohen »

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.

I just tried the site. In Firefox I searched for "led lighting" and this is the page I saw:

https://il.godaddy.com/en/domainsearch/find?checkAvail=1&tms...

However, I did notice the flash of something else loading and a redirect, so I hit the browser's back button and this is where it took me:

https://instantdomainsearch.com/?q=led+lighting

Something on that page is causing an immediate redirect to Godaddy.

I just tested on Google Chrome and had slightly different results. Instead of a redirect, the Godaddy page opened in a new tab (which was focused) yet the instantdomainsearch.com page remained in another tab.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by _andrei_ »

ldoughty wrote: post #146
Loughla wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>but other people can also check what they have. breakingandentering.com or ilovereplacingmybrokenwindows.com or anentirecatalogueoffreestufftosteal.com? What would be the purpose of your side project? I'm very confused by it. Not trying to be disrespectful, but it just sounds like an easy way to case a home for a burglary.

Not the parent poster .. but... I have over a hundred board and card games... Total value on resell market is not that great (especially factoring the value per trip into the house, and relative low value per cubic foot of storage it claims in your car/van)... but having such a list outside google sheets would be helpful.. tells people what we already have if they want to gift items, could have running discussions on…

Well, then these could work:

  - collectiblesquare.com
  - mystuffpage.com
  - sellsomecrap.com

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by andai »

_andrei_ wrote: post #91
_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…

*Dropped some more (~120) here:* https://gist.github.com/3rd/b2d0b2b26493de07ebb2a5ad5e67db1e Maybe someone finds a name for their blog/project/something.

Did you make these manually, ie. with your imagination? Good stuff.
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