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Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Post by sebmellen »

irrational wrote: post #46
dwrodri wrote: post #26

Very curious to hear about the training set for these. If I had to guess, someone scraped GoDaddy/Google Domains/Namecheap for the "premium domains" that are being squatted on and then trained a language model on that corpus. Hopefully the OP can provide details!

It looks to me like it is finding nonsense words that are pronounceable to English speakers and then checking if that nonsense word is available. I assume a linguist programmer could create an algorithm to come up with pronounceable words. Is there a word for a nonsense word that is pronounceable? A potential word?

A jabberwocky word perhaps [1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky_sentence

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Post by jyriand »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #84
klenwell wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

slopier.com: enterprise accounting system decretism.com: enterprise accounting system calinum.com: enterprise accounting system

decretism.com: We use machine learning to identify cretins in your organizational structure and provide the Human Resources expertise to remove them. slopier.com: We optimize the last leg of the maritime supply chain, turn your slow pier into a fast pier! calinum.com: enterprise accounting system - based in California.

decretism.com

Crowdsourced block list of all twitter cretins.

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Post by elcomet »

albertshin wrote: post #53
quadrangle wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

huge downside: you have to say the hyphen explicitly out loud, and if a site exists without the hyphen, you'll get lots of mistakes. Are you thinking that everyone only gets to sites from actual hyperlinks rather than via human speech?

but does this really matter in a world where people basically Google every business anyways to get to the homepage? I feel like everyone around me will Google whenever they hear about a cool app, website, store, product etc. or we're charting online or talking on Zoom and they'll just send me the link directly I'm not sure what the purpose of a URL is anymore... unless you're this guy [1] [1]: https://www.deepsouthve…

Except that this is not true. The people you know use google, but there are many people that don't, and just type the full url or use bookmarks, and are not particularely knowledgeable about the web. If they belong to your target group, then you'll miss some visits to your website.

Re: Domains for the Rest of Us

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Post by sebmellen »

Cpoll wrote: post #54

Party game idea: Pitch products based on the domain names generated by this site.

Here, what do you think?

infosciatic.com: If you're a researcher looking for obscure work that's easy to plagiarize, Infosciatic is the app for you. Infosciatic can search through billions of obscure papers in your field, and find ones no one has read. Using advanced AI, Infosciatic's secret algorithm will rewrite these unread papers into a thesis-worthy document.

froqueting.com: Tired of reloading a page to search for information? Froqueting will do the work for you — the minute your search term appears on the page, it will screenshot it, send you a notification, and save that page in the Wayback Machine. API access is available for enterprise organizations.

unbrided.com: Do you suspect your fiance is cheating on you? Unbrided offers a one-stop SaaS service to search your partner's phone for evidence. If you find any, unbrided will fast-track you to a therapist, moving company, and offers for a new apartment.

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