Web 2.0 Domain Hunter - readily available awesome domains
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Web 2.0 Domain Hunter - readily available awesome domains
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Re: Web 2.0 Domain Hunter - readily available awesome domains
#2It's fun to see the good names it comes up with--except almost none of them are dot com names. I wonder whether a dot com name is really so essential anymore. Unless your marketing relies on print or word of mouth, your traffic will come from links, where the text of the domain name doesn't matter. Hmmm, I can't quite bring myself to believe it...
If you do register a name from this site, be sure to click the Learn More link on the Google domain registration page. It will give you the option of choosing the registrar.
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#3This seems like a good place to get some inspiration from. Even if you don't use the name it could be a fun way to brainstorm some biz ideas.
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#4It's very slow, or possibly just overloaded. Does turn up some nice domains, though.
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#5It's very slow, or possibly just overloaded. Does turn up some nice domains, though.
Which is very weird. App engine apps shouldn't be slow because of overload. It either should work or not, because of quotas.
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#6The DNS is depressing to me.
The fact that I find a service like this as cool as I do really speaks to how messed up the domain name service is.
Why is domain resale even allowed? "Ownership" of a domain seems silly to me. You should be licensing it from ICANN, and you should not be able to sell it. Part of the licensing agreement should be "if you are a domain squatting piece of scum, your contract will be terminated and you will not get your $6 (or whatever it is) registration fee back".
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#7TLD checkboxes are necessary for this to be useful so I can tell it only to look up .com (in my case) or other TLD's if desired.
I don't like how 99% of it's finds so far are .org
Re: Web 2.0 Domain Hunter - readily available awesome domains
#8The DNS is depressing to me. The fact that I find a service like this as cool as I do really speaks to how messed up the domain name service is. Why is domain resale even allowed? "Ownership" of a domain seems silly to me. You should be licensing it from ICANN, and you should not be able to sell it. Part of the licensing agreement should be "if you are a domain squatting piece of scum, your contract will be terminate…
And then the squatters will throw up a fake personal blog filling all available whitespace with ads, and since they are actually "legitimately" using it, nobody else can get the domain.
Re: Web 2.0 Domain Hunter - readily available awesome domains
#9The DNS is depressing to me. The fact that I find a service like this as cool as I do really speaks to how messed up the domain name service is. Why is domain resale even allowed? "Ownership" of a domain seems silly to me. You should be licensing it from ICANN, and you should not be able to sell it. Part of the licensing agreement should be "if you are a domain squatting piece of scum, your contract will be terminate…
And then the squatters will throw up a fake personal blog filling all available whitespace with ads, and since they are actually "legitimately" using it, nobody else can get the domain.
But those ads would be unlikely to cover the yearly registration fee. Without the possibility of making hundreds or thousands of dollars from a single domain sale, domain squatting becomes a lot less financially viable.
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#10TLD checkboxes are necessary for this to be useful so I can tell it only to look up .com (in my case) or other TLD's if desired. I don't like how 99% of it's finds so far are .org
agreed. anything except .com is nearly completely useless.