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I felt a bit limited by this, so I've just knocked up a similar tool with far more flexibility. Still actively developing it, but it's far quicker already. http://dev.mindfuzz.net/domain/ Edit: Grammar.
I wonder who designed the algorithm...
A few years back I built Domain Pigeon, a similar tool, that generated web 2.0-style domain names and made them available to visitors. One of my big lessons learned from that experience was that web 2.0 style domain names are NOT good domain names. More often than not people can't remember them and when they can, they misspell it and if they can spell it, it's only because someone had to spell it out when telling it…
We have lots of different algorithms, and you can click on one to get just those results.
I felt a bit limited by this, so I've just knocked up a similar tool with far more flexibility. Still actively developing it, but it's far quicker already. http://dev.mindfuzz.net/domain/ Edit: Grammar.
Great tool. Returned some false positives for me. Also, searching for a specific domain in all lower case will "find" that domain 50 times.
Checking if a domain name is registered can be a trick task. The only reliable method is to run a whois; but most hosts only search a fraction of the whois records (perhaps just .com) and also limit your queries. You need to pay money to make mass requests.
I have opted to check for any kind of DNS record. That means registered but unused domains will still return available, but the trade off is that it's very quick, pretty accurate most of the time and most importantly free. :)
this thing outputs crap. every single name/domain name generator i've seen has been underwhelming, including this one. do this: * use an emotional connotation dictionary to classify a bunch of poems. * for each emotion category train a markov chain. * allow users to select a couple of emotions, then combine those emotion's markov chains and generate text.
charmless koala
whispering playgrounds
day-glow demons
juicy naked mole rats
forging ice
You can generate different kinds of nonsense, like:
ruthlessly sneezing on perfect phrases
cheerfully grabbing handfuls of fascinated buildings repeating naughty garden hoses
So, fun for strange ideas that make your brain get creative. My favorite tool for generating actual domain names though is easily http://impossibility.org/
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This returns lots of false positives. Certain patterns, LLLL, result in very small result sets (5 items) but when re-searching the pattern, a different set is returned.
Yes, because I use more of a Monte Carlo approach than a systematic approach. zegup.com is always alphabetic, but since the results are so slow it could take a long time to get to the end of the alphabet.
do you produce the string with the monte carlo choosing within a specific subset? I'm not sure why it wouldn't produce more than 5 combinations and then 5 different combinations...
also, if you have-time/like, you can probably implement a quick hash on the fly for the domains already returned to avoid listing the same domain twice in a search with few alternatives, it should be quick.
but cool tool!
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Yes, because I use more of a Monte Carlo approach than a systematic approach. zegup.com is always alphabetic, but since the results are so slow it could take a long time to get to the end of the alphabet.
+1 for randomizing. do you produce the string with the monte carlo choosing within a specific subset? I'm not sure why it wouldn't produce more than 5 combinations and then 5 different combinations... also, if you have-time/like, you can probably implement a quick hash on the fly for the domains already returned to avoid listing the same domain twice in a search with few alternatives, it should be quick. but cool too…
I build an array of arrays where each subset array has all the possibilities for that letter. So if the query was N then a[0] = [0,..,9]. Then I just pick a random element from each subset array and stitch them all together in order.
I felt a bit limited by this, so I've just knocked up a similar tool with far more flexibility. Still actively developing it, but it's far quicker already. http://dev.mindfuzz.net/domain/ Edit: Grammar.
the page is pretty, results are fast, and the letter based slots specification is nice.
but i think the results are pretty low quality (gibberish).
this thing outputs crap. every single name/domain name generator i've seen has been underwhelming, including this one. do this: * use an emotional connotation dictionary to classify a bunch of poems. * for each emotion category train a markov chain. * allow users to select a couple of emotions, then combine those emotion's markov chains and generate text.
I have an iPhone program called "Inspiro" which generates phrases, story ideas, etc. Great for improv or a random laugh. Got my blog domain idea "syncing dreams" from it, and I'm happy with that. No, it isn't checking for domain availability of course, but the combinations are unusual enough that you'll probably find the domain available. A few Inspiro results: charmless koala whispering playgrounds day-glow demons j…
this is kind of a tangent but kind of related: you can use a reverse dictionary (http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml) as a sort of "multi word thesaurus" when trying to condense a couple of ideas down into one word