I've found some good available .coms for some of my projects, the problem is they're all "premium" and cost thousands of dollars to register.
Find a good available .com domain
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Re: Find a good available .com domain
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
That doesn't help with sed -i and similar things. Zsh stops redirection errors, it won't help even if cat is in the front.
"That doesn't help with sed -i and similar things." Can you give an example? I don't know what you mean. "Zsh stops redirection errors" Which is what the post I was answering to was complaining about, wasn't it? "it won't help even if cat is in the front" Why not? "cat > foo" will error out if "foo" exists and NO_CLOBBER is set.
>> "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/$REPLACEMENT/g"
> Which is what the post I was answering to was complaining about, wasn't it?
That's not how I interpreted "a typo in the rest of the pipeline." Sure, the typo could be a redirection. It could also accidentally set $SEDOPTIONS in the example above to include the '-i' flag.
>> "it won't help even if cat is in the front"
> Why not? "cat > foo" will error out if "foo" exists and NO_CLOBBER is set.
Yes, "cat > foo" will error out, but "cat $FILENAME | sed -i "s/a/b/g" $FILENAME" won't.
Re: Find a good available .com domain
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thought no one would notice the orgasmatron5000 eh? I’m onto you. My family once manufactured a sex toy that was popular enough for someone to quit their job, so that brought back memories. Sadly the popularity dried up when their YouTube video stopped being recommended as much. It was a real DaVinci-workshop type operation. I’m still amazed how much logistics went into it. Also art ability and sculpting. You have to…
I now have a clear image of the Family Sillysaurusx. Dad is hard at work designing dildos. Mum and the kids have got a production line going. The littlest sculpts the wavy lines on the Cliterminator Pro. Finally, Benjy the dog carries the finished product over to the delivery parcel (unmarked brown paper) and drops it in. Mmmm! What's that cooking in the oven? Do I smell cherry pie?
It was actually for guys, not a dildo. Basically a silicone bag you could fill with water. Getting the shape right was the hardest part, since if you think about how to mold something like that you’ll run into a bunch of problems.
Your description wasn’t far off, by the way! Thanks for the laugh.
Re: Find a good available .com domain
#114One 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…
I think DALL-E would be a good way to come up with these. The nonsense text it adds to images is usually pronouncable and somehow always seems to match the theme you give it. GilaWhamm.com, anyone?
Re: Find a good available .com domain
#115One 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…
Has it ever turned out that one of these words means something dirty or profane or something in another language?
Re: Find a good available .com domain
#116Left out two very important steps:
a) which of those available names are already trademarked and in which industrial classification [1]. I am amazed at the number of LIVE trademarks that have no registered domain (or worse the registered domain is not held by the trademark registrant).
b) which of those available names has the lowest search engine competition and/or the highest organic search traffic [2]
Also, stripping off the top level domain (TLD) during the search process means one does not find good/great available domain names that may be available on alternative TLD's (that are also not trademarked etc).
[1] https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search
[2] https://ads.google.com/intl/en_au/home/tools/keyword-planner...
Re: Find a good available .com domain
#117A tip I discovered - use hyphens, and suddenly very small nice domains become available. No one types domains anyway. Also does anyone know how to get a shady domain parking service to give up on a domain they’ve been holding for decades? I’m actually happy to pay 500 but not thousands and it’s not even a domain that a company or commercial interest would want to purchase.
> use hyphens, and suddenly very small nice domains become available. Bad idea. The owner of the corresponding domain without hyphens might steal your visitors.
By accidentally forgetting a "-" is how I once ended up on a porn site in front of the entire company, since that's what the version without a "-" was.
It wasn't a big deal, but I was very young, and I had a very red head.
Re: Find a good available .com domain
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Booking.com would like to disagree.
And Apple.
> Apple
Indeed, although the Beatles got there first with Apple Corps[0] way back in 1968, the resulting dispute with what became Apple Inc[1] took decades[2] and must have eaten up $deity only knows how much in legal fees.
Some might say that one actually backs up my suggestion that a made-up name is easier to build a brand around!
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
Re: Find a good available .com domain
#119Left out two very important steps: a) which of those available names are already trademarked and in which industrial classification [1]. I am amazed at the number of LIVE trademarks that have no registered domain (or worse the registered domain is not held by the trademark registrant). b) which of those available names has the lowest search engine competition and/or the highest organic search traffic [2] Also, stripp…
Not affiliated with Ryan Stout's bustaname domain search site [1], but I love using the word combiner and thesaurus features. Also has good video tutorials [2], including one for his tool "for making fake words that sound like they could be real" [3]
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