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Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by kouteiheika »

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"

One could replace the first Ruby script by a Ruby one-liner too:

ruby -e "puts File.read('/tmp/com.txt').scan(/^[^.]+/).uniq"

Personally I almost never use any of the standard Unix tools like `awk` etc. since an equivalent Ruby script is almost always shorter and easier to write. (There are exceptions of course; and in really simple cases the standard tools will obviously still win.)

I think it's a shame that Ruby never really got popular as a general purpose scripting language, since it has that nice property that it's often as short as Perl while still being readable.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by durpleDrank »

l5870uoo9y wrote: post #187
joshstrange wrote: post #169

Honestly 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…

Having the actual .com domain for your business signalise quality and authenticity, difficult to imagine Amazon having getamazon.com. That being said, I also spend many (good hours) dreaming away while buying all sorts of domain names for my fictitious startups. I found that when using the startup niche as suffix or prefix, the domain is sometimes available. Had plenty of luck buying "git-what-ever".com domains, like…

steampowered.com

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by timdavila »

andrewla wrote: post #154

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 whatsoev…

> 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.

It would be out of date the minute you post it.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by jszymborski »

joshstrange wrote: post #169

Honestly 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…

Wordle is a pretty good example of how much success you can have with an unremarkable and unmemorable domain name.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by codegeek »

joshstrange wrote: post #169

Honestly 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 pretty much stopped obsessing over domain names after seeing the success of "google". Ultimately it is the product/service/business that matters. Sure, we all try to get a domain name that we want/like but no need obsessing over it. It sucks that most of us didn't know what to do in 1994 when lot of dictionary words were available. But it is what it is.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by _andrei_ »

xingped wrote: post #219
_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…

Dang dude, love your creativity! Let me know if I can contact you for some personalized domain suggestions for ideas I have but cannot come up with domain names for?

Hey, sure! Check my profile for contact.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by yieldcrv »

omoikane wrote: post #210
joshstrange wrote: post #169

Honestly 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…

See also: "Change Your Name" - http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html

> The problem with not having the .com of your name is that it signals weakness.

That was wrong in 2015 and it is wrong now.

What is seen as validation to users in Europe is different to North America is different to Asia. You can run a whole business in a group chat back then, and North America is just catching on to that, barely moving off of the concept of a .com presence and being okay that other TLD's are good enough too. When you don't even need a website.

Do the thing that makes revenue.

At this point its simple to me: if you are relying on an audience that instinctively types .com or if you think you need a .com for a search result or ad campaign, that's what you're doing wrong. Like, are you intentionally selling to pensioners? Is that the audience you want? People that had the same 30 years as you did to figure out to use a computer but made 30 years of excuses instead?

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by Jack000 »

jszymborski wrote: post #224
joshstrange wrote: post #169

Honestly 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…

Wordle is a pretty good example of how much success you can have with an unremarkable and unmemorable domain name.

Wordle is a great name - it's short, only two syllables and relates directly to the product.

A better example of a bad name might be Ycombinator. It's not immediately obvious what it means, and if you say it aloud it sounds like a question. Doesn't seem to matter much if you're successful enough though.

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