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Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

anticristi wrote: post #97
CodeSgt wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you just have to think outside the box and come up with new ideas constantly. This is something that, to my great shame, I've always struggled with. Any recommendations for improving in this area?

I can't find a good reference, but there was a "standard" process for being creative: Step 0: Get yourself in front of a paper or whiteboard. Eliminate distractions. Step 1: Get all of the BS out of your head. Whatever comes out. Do not try to discuss, assess, etc., just get it out of your head. Step 2: Take a step back and start assessing. Is there anything valuable? What if you pair things together? I heard people…

That's brainstorming, basically; just come out with ideas and say "yes and" instead of "but", save any judgments and but what ifs for later.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by halJordan »

Tepix wrote: post #100
256DEV wrote: post #77

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…

how is this not squatting and thus deplorable?

Squatting has an intention behind it. You don't call ancient coin collectors deplorable squatters because they are taking limited stock off the market.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by bell-cot »

valleyjo wrote: post #140
_andrei_ wrote: post #91

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*Dropped some more (~120) here:* https://gist.github.com/3rd/b2d0b2b26493de07ebb2a5ad5e67db1e Maybe someone finds a name for their blog/project/something.

yucktastic.com - wonder what would be on such a site ha

Products that were inspired by Nickelodeon's green slime?

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by pwdisswordfish9 »

alainchabat wrote: post #122
_andrei_ wrote: post #47

But is it a good one? There are better methods for finding an actually good domain name, you just have to think outside the box and come up with new ideas constantly. For example these domains should be available wink wink : editormag.com geekyglossary.com infiniteiterator.com infographics365.com minutequestions.com museumology.com onlinehistorian.com webdesigndaily.com donateyourcomputerpower.com lazysites.com scorc…

Love your creativity! Requesting a domain name just in case: would love a domain name for a side project: It will allow users to list what they own (maybe a photo or video, idk yet), and they'll be able to consult it, but other people can also check what they have.

yawnshoppe

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by DarrenDev »

Or, pick two words that are not connected in any way. If you Google them as a phrase search you get nothing or close to nothing back: "word1 word2". Examples from 2 minutes on Godaddy:

martianpenguins.com

sallylabs.com

mountainmondays.com

bottlesound.com

Meaningless but all available. Turn those 2 minutes into 2 hours and you'll turn up a gem.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by ldoughty »

Loughla wrote: post #133
alainchabat wrote: post #122

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Love your creativity! Requesting a domain name just in case: would love a domain name for a side project: It will allow users to list what they own (maybe a photo or video, idk yet), and they'll be able to consult it, but other people can also check what they have.

>but other people can also check what they have. breakingandentering.com or ilovereplacingmybrokenwindows.com or anentirecatalogueoffreestufftosteal.com? What would be the purpose of your side project? I'm very confused by it. Not trying to be disrespectful, but it just sounds like an easy way to case a home for a burglary.

Not the parent poster .. but...

I have over a hundred board and card games... Total value on resell market is not that great (especially factoring the value per trip into the house, and relative low value per cubic foot of storage it claims in your car/van)... but having such a list outside google sheets would be helpful.. tells people what we already have if they want to gift items, could have running discussions on games, etc.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by kloch »

Engineers are terrible at picking product names. Some of the company/product names (picked by marketing folks) I disliked the most at first turned out to be the most "brandable" and successful.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by almog »

256DEV wrote: post #77

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…

> I believe the academic category for these is "lexical gap"

Lexical gap refers to potential words that, with regards to the language morphology or semantic rules, could have been part of the language.

I think it's systematic gap that might apply to some of the domains you're squatting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_gap

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by kevincox »

jacquesm wrote: post #26
Grimburger wrote: post #22

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Classic useless use of cat?

I don't agree with the whole 'useless use of cat' meme: cat creates an output stream, which in turn allows you to build up the subsequent command bit by bit and allows you to cut and past chunks from useful building blocks you keep in a file. The first command changes all the time so by using 'cat' those blocks remain reusable, everything will use the piped input that cat sends if there is no preceding program, rathe…

You can do
The redirect doesn't have to appear "out of order" at the end of the command.

In zsh you can even do just `<somefile` to print it (equivalent to `cat somefile`, very useful for reading files into variables) although in bash that appears to do nothing.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by moffkalast »

256DEV wrote: post #128
productceo wrote: post #81

Programmatic land grabs like this is why people today must suffer from lack of remaining .com domain names. Nothing wrong with the writer of this post. I think this is a rational behavior that should be considered "expected". Whoever designed domain name registration/ownership model is to blame for failing to create a system which can efficiently give right domain names to people who actually need them and can use th…

Some newer TLDs like .dev or .app have a tiered pricing structure. So it becomes less economically feasible to squat the best names. They also released them in stages when the TLD first went live. This guy ( https://medium.com/@amd_2793/my-million-dollar-domain-hobby-... ) actually used Google's rankings of domain value from .app to then squat domains on two other flat priced TLDs - io and ai!

Realistically this problem will never be solved while we only support fixed domain extensions and act like some are more legit than others. Like what gives DNS providers the right to say what's a valid extension or not? Just support any string ffs.

Not to mention the country restricted ones that you can only get if you're a resident, like bruh.

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