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But they're not collecting or w/e, they're searching and buying for the purpose of reselling. Which.. is squatting, no?
No they're collecting interesting domains, and then they said it got out of hand during the pandemic, and now theyre selling their collection.
Under what license is that file? Could one make a webservice based on the data? Edit to clarify: I'm envisioning a open source service that uses an in-browser sqlite database [1] so you don't have to worry about a predatory middle party reserving the domains you searched for. [1] https://sql.js.org/#/
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…
If you just check once a year, you likely won't find a good one. But if you check almost daily for years, you will eventually strike gold.
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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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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.
What's wrong with Google? I'm sure the origin (googolplex) is lost on most people, but it seems like a decent brand name to me. On top of which, consider if Yahoo! had won the search market, i don't think their brand would've become a universal verb. Granted, I don't believe it was an explicit choice to have a "verbale" brand-name. But you (and many others in this thread) are right that names often don't matter that…
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…
Agree 100% about domain names. The only exceptions could be for a personal blog perhaps or a brand.
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Counterpoint 1: Steam could not buy steam.com. Counterpoint 2: Domain scalpers will demand ridiculous prices if they believe that you are affiliated with a similar-sounding domain or company.
Steam hasn't been really slowed down by not having steam.com however - even Valve itself doesn't have valve.com Ever since URL bars defaulted to a web search instead of just adding www.com to the word the value of a one word dot com has dropped.
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Counterpoint 1: Steam could not buy steam.com. Counterpoint 2: Domain scalpers will demand ridiculous prices if they believe that you are affiliated with a similar-sounding domain or company.
The steam URL is kind of whimsical. I quite enjoyed when Stardock created their competing service in the same vein: Valve : Steam : steampowered.com Stardock : Impulse : impulsedriven.com
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 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