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Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by TAForObvReasons »

bhartzer wrote: post #259
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…

>> 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. I totally agree, you can always "upgrade" later to a better, shorter, or more appropriate domain later. The TLD doesn't matter, either. The only potential exception to this would be if you're building something "local", whereas you'd want to get the ccTLD domain if…

That assumes such a domain is available. There's an entire cottage industry around snapping up short or interesting domains and renting them to customers. https://venture.com/ it looks like their entire business model involves squatting on domains and renting to interested people.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by rafaelm »

_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…

13 hours after your comment, 57 of the domains you've posted so far have been registered today. Only 6 were already registered. Nice!

I would like to know how you came up with these, they're pretty good.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by [deleted] »

rileyphone wrote: post #167
jliptzin wrote: post #153

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Domains should cost $500/yr

.ai costs $70 a year and that seems to be enough to keep most squatting from happening. Some available domains: thirty.ai topsy.ai hierarch.ai bisect.ai branching.ai saline.ai spume.ai cadr.ai I'm sure using the dictionary method you could find a ton more.

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Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by tomcam »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #236
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…

re: “When I was younger I used to snap up domain names for every little idea I had.”: I am 71 years old and I am still do this. Good for you stopping! Concerning the article: a clever idea but I think it is better manually thinking of words that match your idea and searching for similar free domain names - that doesn’t take much time.

Same, pretty much. Also, proofread the first sentence of your profile at https://leanpub.com/u/markwatson, which needs an “is” after “Mark Watson”.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by justsomehnguy »

867-5309 wrote: post #244
yieldcrv wrote: post #228

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> 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 e…

it doesn't change the fact that .com is and will forever be the de facto TLD even if you succeed with appthatslaps.millennial, you're still going to redirect appthatslaps.com to it

Maybe, but I'm already seen enough 15-25-35 y.o. people who doesn't understand the concept of a domain name nor of a website. There is a significant overlap between them and people who primarily or only uses mobile devices to access Internet or to use any applications.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by _andrei_ »

_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…

Posted more on a different thread not to spam this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31675510

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by mark_l_watson »

tomcam wrote: post #264
mark_l_watson wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

re: “When I was younger I used to snap up domain names for every little idea I had.”: I am 71 years old and I am still do this. Good for you stopping! Concerning the article: a clever idea but I think it is better manually thinking of words that match your idea and searching for similar free domain names - that doesn’t take much time.

Same, pretty much. Also, proofread the first sentence of your profile at https://leanpub.com/u/markwatson , which needs an “is” after “Mark Watson”.

Thanks!

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by edgartaor »

dochtman wrote: post #201
ajonit wrote: post #69

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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?

It's running on GCP, the backend is written in Rust (with a smattering of legacy Go) and the frontend is written in React + Next. Any other questions?

I love that this project started with PHP and MySQL. https://web.archive.org/web/20170419012145/https://instantdo...

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by deusum »

rco8786 wrote: post #238
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…

Everything you say is generally reasonable (though business and domain names can very much matter) but > Literally hundreds of dollars flushed down the toilet all to get a temporary rush. Is that really so bad? We pay hundreds of dollars for temporary rushes all the time.

Isn't "flushing money down the toilet for a dopamine rush" the definition of a hobby?
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