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Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

JMTQp8lwXL wrote: post #24
anzhelika18 wrote: post #5

I love how "extra-small.com" is the only .com domain left - only goes to show how scarce .com domains are these days :/

It's not available either. > whois extra-small.com ... Creation Date: 2020-05-16T16:56:51Z ...

That's weird...last time I checked on both Namecheap and Godaddy - the domain was still available :O

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

taylorhou wrote: post #22

Hmm I own some one to two word domains that are spelled differently (British vs us spelling) ie: Teale.com, splitcheque.com and others like calendur.com or ciaolongbao.com and juantons.com - all saved for the eventual day I have enough money and time to do whatever project I had planned for them. Lol

Hahaha I know the feeling - I've had my fair share of unused domains under my belt back in the days but I had to let go of them because of the hefty renewal fees :'(

Hope you hold on to yours for as long as you can - or sell/lease them for a nice profit on Dan.com!

Re: One-Word Domains

#54

Post by pmachinery »

tobyjsullivan wrote: post #34
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…

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…

I was thinking it would have to be one of the new gTLDs, where 'normal' rules don't seem to apply, but I think .co also asks silly money for any remotely decent name, and that's technically a ccTLD, even though I doubt anyone buys it as such.

> 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.

AIUI premium domains renew at a relatively normal price, so there may be a rule that states they can't charge premium rates for renewals (and therefore decide later your name is a premium), but in the domain world I wouldn't rule anything out.

I wouldn't personally use anything but .com/.net/.org or ccTLD for a serious site anyway.

Re: One-Word Domains

#55

Post by steventey »

cirno wrote: post #49
steventey wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Interesting! I didn't know that Namecheap was into domain name squatting but I guess the cat's out of the bag now! As for the note, I'll have to figure out how to do that because right now, all I can do is filter out the premium domains - which I suppose are the ones that are being scalped, right?

Also, thank you for your kind words! And wow, I didn't know that people would actually sell lists like this - I was just building something that I knew I would want to use without really expecting anything in return, and I guess a lot of people found it useful too! :D

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

notatoad wrote: post #21
hirundo wrote: post #4

The 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.

when you're working off an external list of words, and "extra-small" is on that list of words, then it's going to show up in your search. hyphenated words still count as words in most definitions of words, even if it does seem contradictory in this context.

Yeah, that's why I think I'll be removing all the hyphens for my next update - do you think that's a good idea?

Re: One-Word Domains

#57

Post by steventey »

walrus01 wrote: post #28

This reminds me a bit of http://www.taco.com which is delightfully 1996 vintage design. I wonder how much money they've been offered to sell or lease the domain for something like ubereats/doordash Mexican food delivery.

Oof, I can only imagine! But if I were to take a guess, I'd say it's probably in the 7-8 figure range!

Re: One-Word Domains

#59

Post by surfearth »

MattGaiser wrote: post #26
devilmoon wrote: post #20

I 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.

Ireland is an English-speaking EU member nation.

Re: One-Word Domains

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Post by steventey »

devilmoon wrote: post #20

I 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

Thanks for the suggestion! I've been a fan of the .it TLD especially with products like repl.it repping the brand so I'll definitely consider adding it in my next update!
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