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Thoughts on Domain Acquisition and Branding using AI

41 points by rwaliany 16y ago

ohashi 16y ago
Very creative way of finding names. This is the type of stuff I like seeing rather than the 'OMG SQUATTERS RUINING INTERWEBS' bs. Good for you.
DirtyAndy 16y ago
Pool.com sends out an email of their "Hot List" every day with a list of expiring domains (http://www.pool.com/hotlist.aspx?ia=hotlist http://www.pool.com/hotlist.aspx?ia=hotlist). They send about 30 domains a day, and I guess in an average week 5 are interesting and you can register for them at the various auction sites (Pool has no guarantee of getting them on the drop) and then bid on them. Very few domains that are usable go for less than $100 though. Not as good as Ryan's AI but a nice easy way to occasionally catch a good domain.
- edkennedy 16y ago
  Another good site for expired names is http://www.snapnames.com/ http://www.snapnames.com/
brianbreslin 16y ago
very clever. why don't you turn this into a service? if you have no interest, send me the code and I'll do it. :-)
- nerfhammer 16y ago
  I would love to just see pseudocode for how it works in a little more detail
  - rwaliany 16y ago
    Hopefully, I will add the pseudo-code today.
    - nerfhammer 16y ago
      sweet, I'm really curious as to what features you selected for your model
mrj 16y ago
MMmmm.... Yes and no. I remember the first time I heard of google, that probably wouldn't have been a highly valued domain at the time. What really matters is links. You can put whatever you want in a link, since most people don't look at them too much.
- rwaliany 16y ago
  That's a good point. Interesting enough 'google' has a high score when run through my algorithm. There are a lot of words that start with 'goo' and end with 'ogle'.
ZippyMind 16y ago
Ryan, IMO this idea itself is worth pursuing as a service/company given the difficulties in finding a good domain name. Its not going to get any easier going forward .. looking forward your next steps on this. Great post btw!
lmadera 16y ago
Excellent idea. After spending 8+ hours trying to come up with a good name only to then find it was taken, it would be far quicker to instead be able to go through the non-taken names and see what pops out. Also good for starting the brainstorming process rather than just staring at a blank page or going through all the "positioning" and branding tactics for name generation.
- mhendrick 16y ago
  I'm curious what type of names you were looking for - I'm not actively searching for a name for a new business, but I come up with ideas for names all the time and end up buying them just because they're decent and available. I get that the "real word" options are becoming less common, but I personally haven't had that much trouble finding them. My problem? Now I just own a bunch of domains that I'm not really sure what to do with.

41 points by rwaliany 16y ago

Very creative way of finding names. This is the type of stuff I like seeing rather than the 'OMG SQUATTERS RUINING INTERWEBS' bs. Good for you.

DirtyAndy 16y ago

Pool.com sends out an email of their "Hot List" every day with a list of expiring domains (http://www.pool.com/hotlist.aspx?ia=hotlist http://www.pool.com/hotlist.aspx?ia=hotlist). They send about 30 domains a day, and I guess in an average week 5 are interesting and you can register for them at the various auction sites (Pool has no guarantee of getting them on the drop) and then bid on them. Very few domains that are usable go for less than $100 though. Not as good as Ryan's AI but a nice easy way to occasionally catch a good domain.

edkennedy 16y ago
Another good site for expired names is http://www.snapnames.com/ http://www.snapnames.com/

brianbreslin 16y ago

very clever. why don't you turn this into a service? if you have no interest, send me the code and I'll do it. :-)

nerfhammer 16y ago
I would love to just see pseudocode for how it works in a little more detail
- rwaliany 16y ago
  Hopefully, I will add the pseudo-code today.
  - nerfhammer 16y ago
    sweet, I'm really curious as to what features you selected for your model

mrj 16y ago

MMmmm.... Yes and no. I remember the first time I heard of google, that probably wouldn't have been a highly valued domain at the time. What really matters is links. You can put whatever you want in a link, since most people don't look at them too much.

rwaliany 16y ago
That's a good point. Interesting enough 'google' has a high score when run through my algorithm. There are a lot of words that start with 'goo' and end with 'ogle'.

ZippyMind 16y ago

Ryan, IMO this idea itself is worth pursuing as a service/company given the difficulties in finding a good domain name. Its not going to get any easier going forward .. looking forward your next steps on this. Great post btw!

lmadera 16y ago

Excellent idea. After spending 8+ hours trying to come up with a good name only to then find it was taken, it would be far quicker to instead be able to go through the non-taken names and see what pops out. Also good for starting the brainstorming process rather than just staring at a blank page or going through all the "positioning" and branding tactics for name generation.

mhendrick 16y ago
I'm curious what type of names you were looking for - I'm not actively searching for a name for a new business, but I come up with ideas for names all the time and end up buying them just because they're decent and available. I get that the "real word" options are becoming less common, but I personally haven't had that much trouble finding them. My problem? Now I just own a bunch of domains that I'm not really sure what to do with.