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Alright. Name one that isn't already taken.

by xirium 18y ago

slater 18y ago
bugsear.ch :D
- xirium 18y ago
  Alright. Name one that is a .com
  - axod 18y ago
    Are you seriously saying you think 'snufflebug' is the only one? Get a dictionary to generate random words like 'snuffle' and add bug on the end. There will be a few hundred of those .com's not taken for a start.
    - xirium 18y ago
      While it is possible to find <foo>bug.com or even snuffle<foo>bug.com you are unlikely to find <foo> which is better than snuffle and is also available. Indeed, I'm becoming quite partial to snuffle because the word is similar to both snafu ( http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/SNAFU-principle.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/SNAFU-principle.html ) and muffle; going from a very bad situation to greatly reducing unwanted side-effects. I suppose you could choose mufflebug.com but would either of us thought of it if we hadn't seen snufflebug.com?
blogimus 18y ago
bugbear.net is available
- xirium 18y ago
  Unsurprisingly, bugbear.com is taken. Surprisingly, it features Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston and John McCarthy ( http://www.bugbear.com/roguesgallery.html http://www.bugbear.com/roguesgallery.html ).
  - blogimus 18y ago
    Bugbear.com is also not a commercial site, it is a guy's personal web presence. I would think that this would be a factor in the value of the bugbear.net name, especially for something homebrew or community oriented. If he ever did sell to a corporate body then, of course, that would change the dynamics. Edit: I just noticed a sibling thread talking about bugbear.com being PG's site. Just random luck on my part. Bugbear just came to mind as a defect tracking product name.
  - kirubakaran 18y ago
    Bugbear is pg. He uses that as nick.
    - axod 18y ago
      And aparently still uses ns5.store.yahoo.com as a DNS server ;)
      - kirubakaran 18y ago
        And Yahoo hosts the stuff too: http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/paulgraham_2002_803930 http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/paulgraham_2002_803... yimg.com
    - xirium 18y ago
      That would explain why bugbear's profile ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bugbear http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bugbear ) says "Okay just had to see if I could register it :-) Feel free to delete/lock/change pw."

Alright. Name one that isn't already taken.

by xirium 18y ago

Alright. Name one that isn't already taken.

slater 18y ago

bugsear.ch :D

xirium 18y ago
Alright. Name one that is a .com
- axod 18y ago
  Are you seriously saying you think 'snufflebug' is the only one? Get a dictionary to generate random words like 'snuffle' and add bug on the end. There will be a few hundred of those .com's not taken for a start.
  - xirium 18y ago
    While it is possible to find <foo>bug.com or even snuffle<foo>bug.com you are unlikely to find <foo> which is better than snuffle and is also available. Indeed, I'm becoming quite partial to snuffle because the word is similar to both snafu ( http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/SNAFU-principle.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/SNAFU-principle.html ) and muffle; going from a very bad situation to greatly reducing unwanted side-effects. I suppose you could choose mufflebug.com but would either of us thought of it if we hadn't seen snufflebug.com?

blogimus 18y ago

bugbear.net is available

xirium 18y ago
Unsurprisingly, bugbear.com is taken. Surprisingly, it features Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston and John McCarthy ( http://www.bugbear.com/roguesgallery.html http://www.bugbear.com/roguesgallery.html ).
- blogimus 18y ago
  Bugbear.com is also not a commercial site, it is a guy's personal web presence. I would think that this would be a factor in the value of the bugbear.net name, especially for something homebrew or community oriented. If he ever did sell to a corporate body then, of course, that would change the dynamics. Edit: I just noticed a sibling thread talking about bugbear.com being PG's site. Just random luck on my part. Bugbear just came to mind as a defect tracking product name.
- kirubakaran 18y ago
  Bugbear is pg. He uses that as nick.
  - axod 18y ago
    And aparently still uses ns5.store.yahoo.com as a DNS server ;)
    - kirubakaran 18y ago
      And Yahoo hosts the stuff too: http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/paulgraham_2002_803930 http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/paulgraham_2002_803... yimg.com
  - xirium 18y ago
    That would explain why bugbear's profile ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bugbear http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bugbear ) says "Okay just had to see if I could register it :-) Feel free to delete/lock/change pw."