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Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by donmcronald »

boustrophedon wrote: post #23
pmachinery wrote: post #17

Earlier 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…

How long did you have the domain registered before they changed it to a premium domain? That seems like something that might violate the base registry agreement. Section 2.10(c):

> The parties acknowledge that the purpose of this Section 2.10(c) is to prohibit abusive and/or discriminatory Renewal Pricing practices imposed by Registry Operator without the written consent of the applicable registrant at the time of the initial registration of the domain and this Section 2.10(c) will be interpreted broadly to prohibit such practices.

I ask because I have a similar domain.

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

lasagna_coder wrote: post #18
steventey wrote: post #8

Hey 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 -…

This tool is pretty cool, would be helpful to see prices I guess too. A table format would be easier to navigate. I recently found a TLD that seems underused and has one "total" word potential (chars incl tld as a single word) > .ge Also can I recommend putting links to other domain providers like porkbun, their platform is super usable and prices are decent.

Thanks for the suggestions! I've been thinking about adding prices and maybe even a way for you to filter for a specific price range but I'm worried about the pricing discrepancies between different domain name providers so I decided to stick with the Premium and Regular domains distinction instead.

Also, I love the "total" word potential - I'll figure out a way on how to incorporate that!

As for Porkbun, I've received a couple of suggestions to add that, and I'll definitely consider adding it to the mix!

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

cirno wrote: post #37
uyaij wrote: post #6

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> 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.

Weird - I just checked it on both Namecheap and Godaddy and apparently it's still available. Will double-check with the WHOIS database now. Thanks for letting me know!

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

Klinky wrote: post #29
boustrophedon wrote: post #23

Earlier 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…

I've been moving domains from Namecheap to Porkbun due to ever increasing renewal prices, it's something like $5 cheaper per domain with Porkbun. I didn't see the 15x increase you saw though.

Hmmm...I'm debating between Porkbun, Iwantmyname and Domain.com - which one do you guys think I should add next?

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

ycombinete wrote: post #19
steventey wrote: post #8

Hey 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 -…

Hey this is really cool. I’ve recently started learning python as a hobby, with the goal to eventually start full stack development. I was just wondering, since this is your first web app, how long have you been coding for/how long did it take to get up and running?

Thanks a lot for the kind words! I think you should definitely learn Python - it's a very versatile language, but for the full-stack I would recommend mastering JavaScript instead.

As for me - I've been coding in Python at school for a while now (I'm a data science major) but I haven't really had any experience with the full-stack so I wanted to take this as a learning opportunity for me. In total, it took me a week to build the whole site - the relatively quick timeline is probably because I treated it as a personal hackathon with a one-week deadline.

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

chippy wrote: post #36
steventey wrote: post #8

Hey 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?

They actually weren't that much work - I recently found this amazing website called Lottiefiles and have been using some of the art I found there as placeholder until I had the time to custom make some of my own, and since this project was intended as an MVP, I didn't really manage to get around to doing that, but I definitely want to in the near future!

And thank you for your encouraging words! I never had any experience building webapps from scratch - I've always resorted to no-code solutions like Webflow because I'm more into design myself. Here's one of my other projects that I'm working on, which I built with Webflow, if you're interested: https://www.sedge.io/

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

moralestapia wrote: post #25

I love/hate these kind of projects. On one hand they give amazing suggestions and prove useful to small scale devs like me and others coming here. On the other hand, a few weeks from now most of them will be snatched by squatters, essentially rendering them useless for small scale devs like me and others coming here.

Hahaha, I'm sorry about this! I've come to realize how this site can be used with malignant intent - even domain registrars could be stalking this site and bump up the prices for domains that people have been viewing a lot. I guess I can just hope that these things don't actually happen and that I've built a tool that can help people find their dream domains. :')

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

nailer wrote: post #39
steventey wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes I am! And I totally get it - I'm pretty much a branding geek myself. I've been debating whether to remove the dashes even when I first started building the site, and this just gives me more reason to remove them from the word list. Stay tuned for the next update! ;)

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by cirno »

steventey wrote: post #43
cirno wrote: post #37

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Which was also registered eight days ago, it would seem.

Weird - I just checked it on both Namecheap and Godaddy and apparently it's still available. Will double-check with the WHOIS database now. Thanks for letting me know!

Sure thing, I really appreciate your site by the way! There actually are services that list good available domain names already but they all want to sell you the list before you can even know if their list is any good, so I've never bothered.

As for extra-small, I used Google Domains to check it, it certainly seems to be registered as of May 16th.

https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/search/whois/extra-sm...

I did some more digging, it appears that namecheap (or another registrar/reseller) squatted it and is reselling it as a premium domain for $190.

I suppose in the most technical sense, it is available, but my assumption was that this was a list of unregistered domains rather than say an AfterNIC competitor. Would it be possible to note in your database which domains are unregistered and which are being scalped?

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

throwaway12392 wrote: post #33

I don't know what dictionary they are using, but it apparently contains the words "compaq", "msgid" and "milfhunter". https://www.oneword.domains/available-io-domains

Yeah it's kinda funny - I recently logged into my Google Search Console and realized that my site has been ranking for some rather questionable keywords like "housewives handjobs" and even "ampland", simply because the dictionary I used has those words. :'D
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