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One-Word Domains
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Re: One-Word Domains
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
As of right now napalming.com is available, autocratically.com, cauterizes.com, peronist.com, pickaninnies.com, and doubtless many more. Most one-word .COMs are weird/obscure, related to negative things or end in S, so not much use for a business. Fornicates.com was available recently though, as was goriest.com, both of which are not bad for less mainstream sites. Outside .COM there are tons of one word domains. imag…
Be careful with namecheap. I used to use them for everything (and still have several domains registered with them), but one of my domains was a short word on an obscure TLD. This year they increased the price by 15x, and support tried to pass the blame by claiming "the registry decided it's a premium domain." The registry may decide whether a domain is "premium" or not, but I had no issues transferring it to Google D…
Oddly enough I've moved my stuff to namecheap because GoDaddy decided to bump their 0.99$/year domains to 40$.
Re: One-Word Domains
#33I don't know what dictionary they are using, but it apparently contains the words "compaq", "msgid" and "milfhunter".
Re: One-Word Domains
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
As of right now napalming.com is available, autocratically.com, cauterizes.com, peronist.com, pickaninnies.com, and doubtless many more. Most one-word .COMs are weird/obscure, related to negative things or end in S, so not much use for a business. Fornicates.com was available recently though, as was goriest.com, both of which are not bad for less mainstream sites. Outside .COM there are tons of one word domains. imag…
Be careful with namecheap. I used to use them for everything (and still have several domains registered with them), but one of my domains was a short word on an obscure TLD. This year they increased the price by 15x, and support tried to pass the blame by claiming "the registry decided it's a premium domain." The registry may decide whether a domain is "premium" or not, but I had no issues transferring it to Google D…
Can you clarify if this was a gTLD or a ccTLD? Being so used to standardized pricing with .com's, this never even occurred to me as a risk.
For anyone unfamiliar with premium TLD pricing:
- it's common for .com's to be sold on the aftermarket for high prices but the renewal prices are standardized. So if I invest $36k on buying appletini.com, I know I will be able to renew it for ~$10/yr.
- gTLD's like .land or .tech seem to set premium prices at the registrar level and apply to renewals. This means if I want apps.wiki, it's going to cost me $3,180/yr every year.
The risk I'm now wondering about: If I build a successful brand around a gTLD, can that registrar retroactively classify that domain as a "premium" and just start 10x-ing my renewal price every year?
If this is possible, I cannot imagine how any serious site could be built on a gTLD.
Re: One-Word Domains
#35I think you should totally track the .it TLD, it's the Italian one but works wonderfully for word plays in English (and if iirc I've seen a few websites taking advantage of it). Some straightforward examples that come to mind would be buy.it, ship.it, design.it etc., you name(.)it ;) Edit: also, being the Italian TLD I'm guessing quite a few English words are still available
You have to be in the European Union to register one though. No more English speaking countries in it except for Malta.
Do you need to be, or can you have a "designated person" in the EU? Higher end registrars are happy to supply designated people for address requirement purposes.
Re: One-Word Domains
#36Hey everyone! Maker of One Word Domains here. I recently launched this on Product Hunt and got some pretty good feedback there and was looking forward to launching it on Hacker News as well but oh well, someone did it for me To give you guys some backstory, I was dabbling around with Flask the other day and decided to build something that I would’ve loved to use when I was trying to find a good name for my startup -…
love the Lottie animations. were they much work?
General question - if this was the first web app you worked on from scratch I'm impressed - did you have experience with working on existing ones?
Re: One-Word Domains
#37They claim there's still an English word (an adjective) that's available as a .com domain but apparently it's not possible to see what it is from their site. I remember back in ’99 seeing a list of English words that were still available as .com It was short enough to read at a sitting and I was going through it looking for potential band names. The only one I remember was “osteoclasts.” Unfortunately, we didn’t have…
> They claim there's still an English word (an adjective) that's available as a .com domain but apparently it's not possible to see what it is from their site. I think that refers to "extra-small", which is a word in the linked gist: https://gist.github.com/hugsy/8910dc78d208e40de42deb29e62df9...
Which was also registered eight days ago, it would seem.
Re: One-Word Domains
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Be careful with namecheap. I used to use them for everything (and still have several domains registered with them), but one of my domains was a short word on an obscure TLD. This year they increased the price by 15x, and support tried to pass the blame by claiming "the registry decided it's a premium domain." The registry may decide whether a domain is "premium" or not, but I had no issues transferring it to Google D…
Yeah I've never used or seen the appeal of Namecheap except when they run promos. They are anything but cheap otherwise. It may not be worth it for one or two names but transferring domains is easy (and can be done even when expired) and it can make sense to move to another registrar to save money - transfer prices are often lower than renewal prices - or if the current registrar starts to be a dick. I've never used…
> Not sure what people are getting for paying twice as much as everywhere else.
Really, really, really bad customer support. Like they'll answer your phone calls, but they won't actually help you at all. Especially with billing issues.
Re: One-Word Domains
#39The only .com domain on the site is `extra-small.com`. How is that a one word domain? Maybe two words count as one if they're extra small.
You bring up a good point, and I've been pondering about this for a while now - do you think I should remove all the hyphens from the domains before querying them? Like, instead of "extra-small.com", should I be querying "extrasmall.com" instead?
Are you the author?
If you're new to marketing: domains with a dash in them are considered seconds rate to domains that don't have a dash.
Re: One-Word Domains
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
> They claim there's still an English word (an adjective) that's available as a .com domain but apparently it's not possible to see what it is from their site. I think that refers to "extra-small", which is a word in the linked gist: https://gist.github.com/hugsy/8910dc78d208e40de42deb29e62df9...
Which was also registered eight days ago, it would seem.
And isn’t one word.