Are all the good domains taken? • Hacker News Board

Re: Are all the good domains taken?

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Post by anotherjesse » Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 10:13 PM UTC

coderrr wrote: post #15

There may be no 4 letter, but there are still lots of 4 digit [a-z0-9-] .com domain names. Maybe not ones that you want, but they're there. example: i48u.com, o440.com, u0-0.com, etc...

I got fu2o.com and dr2o.com a few months ago - I'm not using either and have too many projects so if you want them email me

Re: Are all the good domains taken?

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Post by JFred » Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 10:47 PM UTC

Nothing left. It's the end of the internet. In a few years every person and machine on earth will have a couple of web pages. A public one for professional use and a private one for friends and family only.

We'll have to address by content, not by name. Search engines are the future, baby!

Re: Are all the good domains taken?

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Post by nertzy » Tue, Apr 29, 2008, 6:03 AM UTC

pchristensen wrote: post #35

adrianwaj wrote: post #13

Heaps of domains left. Your ideal domain + an extra short common word at the end of it: tip, now, it, ify, zone, space, net, repeat word + .com

That's what 37signals does: basecamphq.com, backpackit.com, highrisehq.com, campfirenow.com

And projectpath.com (among other choices) for the actual Basecamp account. It doesn't even have the name in it! But it doesn't need to.

Having the commonly used name isn't always a great idea anyway. You might want to avoid python.com (NSFW), for example. But the Python folks could have easily gotten codepython./com|net|org/

Re: Are all the good domains taken?

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Post by wrigley » Tue, Apr 29, 2008, 9:03 AM UTC

I think when the net goes to the IPv6 there will be many more domain options