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Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by lelanthran »

pmoriarty wrote: post #131
lelanthran wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> "That doesn't help with sed -i and similar things." > Can you give an example? I don't know what you mean. Sure. The first line below is dangerous no matter what zsh does to save you from yourself. The second line is safe no matter which shell you are using, and no matter what other commands are in the pipeline: sed $SEDOPTIONS "s/$SEARCHTERM/$REPLACEMENT/g" $FILENAME cat $FILENAME | sed $SEDOPTIONS "s/$SEARCHTERM…

Yes, in-place editing with tools like sed is dangerous. But, in your own example you have a useless use of cat: cat $FILENAME | sed $SEDOPTIONS "s/$SEARCHTERM/$REPLACEMENT/g" could be replaced with: sed $SEDOPTIONS "s/$SEARCHTERM/$REPLACEMENT/g"

Well, that's the whole point of the useless use of cat - in the non-cat example you gave, making a typo at the end of the command destroys my data.

With the useless use of cat, that is no longer possible even if there is a typo in the SEDOPTIONS.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by maowtm »

srmarm wrote: post #33
Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #28

What bad things would happen if the zone file was made available for everyone without any approval?

You can compare to get newly registered domain names so it's sometimes used for Spam to target new companies - I've not noticed that so much lately though. I suppose you could identify recent NS changes to create a list of servers/hosting that might not have been locked down or secured yet. But on the whole I can't personally think of anything too bad.

You can also do that with certificate transparency logs though.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by Tepix »

halJordan wrote: post #234
lijogdfljk wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's squatting if you're not using the domain name for anything other than reselling it.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by juanmacuevas »

the_duke wrote: post #2

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/#/

someone uploaded the list without duplicates here https://mega.nz/file/wNsRFIBC#jXOrEsIXUwespGbjKrh1fX4OIq436I... it's ~ 680Mb

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by juanmacuevas »

ben174 wrote: post #282
the_duke wrote: post #2

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/#/

I'd love to get my hands on the current version of the file, just to play with. Without having to wait days for approval. Is that something I could find somewhere?

https://mega.nz/file/wNsRFIBC#jXOrEsIXUwespGbjKrh1fX4OIq436I...
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