Everyone beat me with the one liners :) surprised someone had a file.open loop while cat and awk would work. More surprised to see Ruby used.
Find a good available .com domain
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Re: Find a good available .com domain
#172But 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?
Drugs. Bad for generating ideas, but makes your ability to generate them when you're sober better.
Re: Find a good available .com domain
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
> use hyphens, and suddenly very small nice domains become available. Bad idea. The owner of the corresponding domain without hyphens might steal your visitors.
By accidentally forgetting a "-" is how I once ended up on a porn site in front of the entire company, since that's what the version without a "-" was. It wasn't a big deal, but I was very young, and I had a very red head.
Oh man, I did something similar in class. In 4th grade (+/- a year). whitehouse.com (I don't know what it is now, but it was a porn site) instead of whitehouse.gov.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
*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.
I'd say 50% of it is manual work.
Re: Find a good available .com domain
#175I 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"
This does not use a dictionary, spitting out everything rather than words which exist in said dictionary.
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#176Would the same process work for other tlds?
It does. Here is someone who lists all of the .horse domains just in case you would want such a thing [0]
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
how is this not squatting and thus deplorable?
Squatting has an intention behind it. You don't call ancient coin collectors deplorable squatters because they are taking limited stock off the market.
But they're not collecting or w/e, they're searching and buying for the purpose of reselling. Which.. is squatting, no?
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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?
Drugs. Bad for generating ideas, but makes your ability to generate them when you're sober better.
Sometimes now, if you are careful about dose. It can free the doubts and writers block. Hence the phrase a few write-y friends of mine like to repeat: write drunk, edit sober. Or to put it a little more prosaically: you can edit a bad page, you can't edit a blank page.
Re: Find a good available .com domain
#179Honestly I think domain names should be the least of your worries when building something. You can always add a "get" prefix or "app" suffix (or a bunch of other options). If you are sold on a company name then by all means, grab the domain but don't confuse "buying a domain" with "making actual progress". When I was younger I used to snap up domain names for every little idea I had. I executed on less than 1% of tho…
I have been doing the same thing for years, and just last week I finally executed a personal project I had been thinking about for months, and I just used the free subdomain that came with the hosting provider I used. Also, https://freedns.afraid.org/ is a great source for interesting names
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#180Why would I trust a service promoting finding "good" .com domains that uses .rs as its domain? Were they unable to find one for themselves?