List of available 2 letter domain names • Hacker News Board

Re: List of available 2 letter domain names

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Post by Kafoury » Mon, Feb 23, 2015, 7:20 PM UTC

The OP url links to catechgory.com which in turn has a link to Digital Ocean. Regarding Digital Ocean here is a FYI for your consideration: https://practiscore.com/site-back-up/

Re: List of available 2 letter domain names

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Post by jsprogrammer » Mon, Feb 23, 2015, 7:33 PM UTC

Kafoury wrote: post #50

The OP url links to catechgory.com which in turn has a link to Digital Ocean. Regarding Digital Ocean here is a FYI for your consideration: https://practiscore.com/site-back-up/

Your link contains no real information, just a generic slam on DO.

Re: List of available 2 letter domain names

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Post by ryan-c » Mon, Feb 23, 2015, 8:00 PM UTC

jeswin wrote: post #22

A bit off-topic, but I'd like to know what HN thinks about a short domain I've chosen for an upcoming product. I'm building a platform which lets people create and host simple apps. It's kind of a collaborative app development thing, so you build on what's already there and let others use what you've made. The project is called "Fora", and I bought the domain www.4ah.org. I like the brevity, but does it look like a s…

Are you aware of fora.tv?

Re: List of available 2 letter domain names

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Post by totony » Mon, Feb 23, 2015, 8:41 PM UTC

bonn1 wrote: post #47

300bps wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think anything .com is much more memorable for 95%+ of the population.

I agree. A short domain with an unknown or hard to type TLD is not really wanted. And the only TLD on that page which is 1) well known, 2) very well to type and 3) treated as a generic TLD from Google (important for SEO) is .io

I am curious about #3, do you have an article elaborating on this?

Re: List of available 2 letter domain names

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Post by joelennon » Mon, Feb 23, 2015, 10:40 PM UTC

Thanks for this. I picked up wy.is for €29. Real impulse buy. Was thinking it could work for a "why is...?" type site. Probably silly but I have no self control when it comes to buying domains I'll never use.

Re: List of available 2 letter domain names

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Post by petercooper » Mon, Feb 23, 2015, 11:01 PM UTC

listic wrote: post #31

Why just .ag .cx .gg .gl .gs .gy .ht .is .je .lc .ms .pe? Do all of the other two-letter TLDs have all two-letter domains picked?

For anyone who finds it useful to know, .gd allows two letter domains, I have one, plus there was the is.gd URL shortener.

Re: List of available 2 letter domain names

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Post by petercooper » Mon, Feb 23, 2015, 11:06 PM UTC

maaku wrote: post #42

Aaaand.. they're gone.

It's pretty amazing how quick they are going. Every single one showing as available that I've checked so far has gone. It's like people didn't know you could do this before.

Re: List of available 2 letter domain names

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Post by bonn1 » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 3:28 AM UTC

totony wrote: post #54

bonn1 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. A short domain with an unknown or hard to type TLD is not really wanted. And the only TLD on that page which is 1) well known, 2) very well to type and 3) treated as a generic TLD from Google (important for SEO) is .io

I am curious about #3, do you have an article elaborating on this?

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en

Re: List of available 2 letter domain names

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Post by mdpm » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 10:25 PM UTC

For anyone else looking for vanity domains : often used https://domainr.com/ to check for availability. gandi still usually cheaper for the reg.

Re: List of available 2 letter domain names

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Post by neurodyne » Wed, Feb 25, 2015, 1:08 AM UTC

snissn wrote: post #33

Here's a list of available 2 letter .rs domains: https://gist.github.com/mike-seiler/c20be8fb641bc280fff0 I kind of like ym.rs and wk.rs

Thanks for this list!

For anyone else interested, .rs is the ccTLD for Serbia and many registrars will require a Serbian Citizen Number.