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A list of the 5000 most commonly used domain prefix/suffix

221 points by erikig 6y ago

erikig 6y ago
This list was helpful when searching for a unique domain names or for social media handles. It was inspired by the original gist by @marcanuy [1] and by an article from LeanDomainSearch [2]. Unfortunately both lists were not as easy to search and sort so I converted it to a tsv on gist. [1] https://gist.github.com/marcanuy/06cb00bc36033cd12875 https://gist.github.com/marcanuy/06cb00bc36033cd12875 [2] https://leandomainsearch.com/top-domain-name-prefixes-and-suffixes/ https://leandomainsearch.com/top-domain-name-prefixes-and-su...
- ezequiel-garzon 6y ago
  Thanks! In fact, I can't seem to find any list at all in your [2]. They say "Without further ado, here are the final results", but I don't see any links.
calmworm 6y ago
I didn’t compare lists, but namemesh.com does a fair job of making suggestions based on your original search or keywords.
abnry 6y ago
Why is .com so far down the list?
- corobo 6y ago
  Because you're thinking TLD, not suffix
- vikramkr 6y ago
  I dont think these are tlds, so this is counting something like broadcom.com as +com.
- benatkin 6y ago
  Both dotcom+ and +dotcom are there. getadotcom.com and dotcombuzz.com
TheMask01 6y ago
Ha. I've been working on a project [1] for wayy too long, but the backend utilizes things like this, negative strings/words like many first & last names, word identification, basic ML, a decent pronounceability algorithm to filter junk and score what's left, etc. The back end.... is not the prettiest, but it works. Every day 's deleted domains are refined then you can search through our list. The idea is to save people a wholeee bunch of time and ideally find some hidden gems. Thanks for sharing op. bookmarked. [1] https://decentdrops.com https://decentdrops.com - Please be kind! First time i've mentioned it.. I'm ready. I procrastinate too much. Haven't done a Show HN thread, want to tweak/touch up things a bit more first.
- jasongill 6y ago
  This is cool, great work. You should add some SEO metrics (perhaps as a paid upgrade) like Moz Domain Authority, or SEMrush traffic or # of keywords the domain ranks for. Something to determine if the domain has any existing SEO value on top of being a good sounding domain.
  - pmachinery 6y ago
    If a domain drops long enough to be hand registered it's probably safe to assume it has no significant SEO value.
    - ricardo81 6y ago
      Would agree on that. I've ran a DB of over half a billion domains from past and present, 95% of them have no "SEO value" according to the metric tools. Anything gTLD getting dropped is mostly getting ran through an auction and/or dropcatch process which means anything available an hour after expiration is either a ccTLD that others didn't have in their DB, or for some or reason wasn't attractive to other prospectors using zone files.
- unityByFreedom 6y ago
  > diseaseautomation.com I hope this remains on the list indefinitely.
lgats 6y ago
In case anyone is wondering the top 100 prefix/suffix combos (2294 domains) are all registered.
- benatkin 6y ago
  Like TheMe.com? Nevermind, that's theme.com. TheGo.com, TheIn.com, TheIt.com don't make that much sense, but since they're short enough, they've been scooped up, because domain investing isn't only about selling domains to those building sites, it's also about selling to other domain investors.
  - perl4ever 6y ago
    They don't make much sense, but they might make good names for startups. At least relative to those who choose regular words that are hard to Google.
furyofantares 6y ago
I'm trying to chain as many of these as I can together. Welcome to my free online webmedia worldnet blog group bookshop store inc
- willis936 6y ago
  If you loosen things up you can get fun results. The media world net group My free green super go blog club
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nexuist 6y ago
Somewhat unrelated but TIL: GitHub gists auto formats tsv (and I presume csv) files. This is really neat!
- ryannevius 6y ago
  Indeed, it looks like CSV is also made pretty: https://gist.github.com/search?l=CSV&q=csv https://gist.github.com/search?l=CSV&q=csv
tutfbhuf 6y ago
+24 is missing
- lucb1e 6y ago
  Interesting catch, since moving to Germany I noticed some "something24"s (though only one comes to mind now) so I would indeed expect that to show up here, even if lowly ranked. It looks like there are either no numeric pre/suffixes at all (that sounds unlikely) or they are not included? Looking through the raw I see nothing matching /[0-9]\+?$/
  - netsharc 6y ago
    I wonder who started the whole 24 thing. I know Deutsche Bank used to use it, googling "db24" gives them as the top result. Ah even www.db24.de redirects to their site.
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federicosan 6y ago
Thanks I think I will buy all of these! https://leandomainsearch.com/search/?q=fuck https://leandomainsearch.com/search/?q=fuck
sahoo 6y ago
Where does porn starts?
- lucb1e 6y ago
  Try ctrl+f? 485 porn prefix 684 porn suffix
mellosouls 6y ago
Note to others before clicking: this list may hang your browser, it did mine (Chrome & Brave, Android; Lightning handled it fine tho I have everything turned off in that).
- lucb1e 6y ago
  I used Lightning (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/acr.browser.lightning/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/acr.browser.lightning/) to open it and worked fine for me out of the box (I don't think I set any special settings for performance). Firefox on a laptop is also fine of course, but that's a laptop.
- OrderlyTiamat 6y ago
  Firefox on android handled it without issue for me.
netsharc 6y ago
I wonder if there is a list of subdomains too. "jira." and "wiki." must be popular..

221 points by erikig 6y ago

This list was helpful when searching for a unique domain names or for social media handles. It was inspired by the original gist by @marcanuy [1] and by an article from LeanDomainSearch [2]. Unfortunately both lists were not as easy to search and sort so I converted it to a tsv on gist. [1] https://gist.github.com/marcanuy/06cb00bc36033cd12875 https://gist.github.com/marcanuy/06cb00bc36033cd12875 [2] https://leandomainsearch.com/top-domain-name-prefixes-and-suffixes/ https://leandomainsearch.com/top-domain-name-prefixes-and-su...

ezequiel-garzon 6y ago
Thanks! In fact, I can't seem to find any list at all in your [2]. They say "Without further ado, here are the final results", but I don't see any links.

calmworm 6y ago

I didn’t compare lists, but namemesh.com does a fair job of making suggestions based on your original search or keywords.

abnry 6y ago

Why is .com so far down the list?

corobo 6y ago
Because you're thinking TLD, not suffix
vikramkr 6y ago
I dont think these are tlds, so this is counting something like broadcom.com as +com.
benatkin 6y ago
Both dotcom+ and +dotcom are there. getadotcom.com and dotcombuzz.com

TheMask01 6y ago

Ha. I've been working on a project [1] for wayy too long, but the backend utilizes things like this, negative strings/words like many first & last names, word identification, basic ML, a decent pronounceability algorithm to filter junk and score what's left, etc. The back end.... is not the prettiest, but it works. Every day 's deleted domains are refined then you can search through our list. The idea is to save people a wholeee bunch of time and ideally find some hidden gems. Thanks for sharing op. bookmarked. [1] https://decentdrops.com https://decentdrops.com - Please be kind! First time i've mentioned it.. I'm ready. I procrastinate too much. Haven't done a Show HN thread, want to tweak/touch up things a bit more first.

jasongill 6y ago
This is cool, great work. You should add some SEO metrics (perhaps as a paid upgrade) like Moz Domain Authority, or SEMrush traffic or # of keywords the domain ranks for. Something to determine if the domain has any existing SEO value on top of being a good sounding domain.
- pmachinery 6y ago
  If a domain drops long enough to be hand registered it's probably safe to assume it has no significant SEO value.
  - ricardo81 6y ago
    Would agree on that. I've ran a DB of over half a billion domains from past and present, 95% of them have no "SEO value" according to the metric tools. Anything gTLD getting dropped is mostly getting ran through an auction and/or dropcatch process which means anything available an hour after expiration is either a ccTLD that others didn't have in their DB, or for some or reason wasn't attractive to other prospectors using zone files.
unityByFreedom 6y ago
> diseaseautomation.com I hope this remains on the list indefinitely.

lgats 6y ago

In case anyone is wondering the top 100 prefix/suffix combos (2294 domains) are all registered.

benatkin 6y ago
Like TheMe.com? Nevermind, that's theme.com. TheGo.com, TheIn.com, TheIt.com don't make that much sense, but since they're short enough, they've been scooped up, because domain investing isn't only about selling domains to those building sites, it's also about selling to other domain investors.
- perl4ever 6y ago
  They don't make much sense, but they might make good names for startups. At least relative to those who choose regular words that are hard to Google.

furyofantares 6y ago

I'm trying to chain as many of these as I can together. Welcome to my free online webmedia worldnet blog group bookshop store inc

willis936 6y ago
If you loosen things up you can get fun results. The media world net group My free green super go blog club

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nexuist 6y ago

Somewhat unrelated but TIL: GitHub gists auto formats tsv (and I presume csv) files. This is really neat!

ryannevius 6y ago
Indeed, it looks like CSV is also made pretty: https://gist.github.com/search?l=CSV&q=csv https://gist.github.com/search?l=CSV&q=csv

tutfbhuf 6y ago

+24 is missing

lucb1e 6y ago
Interesting catch, since moving to Germany I noticed some "something24"s (though only one comes to mind now) so I would indeed expect that to show up here, even if lowly ranked. It looks like there are either no numeric pre/suffixes at all (that sounds unlikely) or they are not included? Looking through the raw I see nothing matching /[0-9]\+?$/
- netsharc 6y ago
  I wonder who started the whole 24 thing. I know Deutsche Bank used to use it, googling "db24" gives them as the top result. Ah even www.db24.de redirects to their site.

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federicosan 6y ago

Thanks I think I will buy all of these! https://leandomainsearch.com/search/?q=fuck https://leandomainsearch.com/search/?q=fuck

sahoo 6y ago

Where does porn starts?

lucb1e 6y ago
Try ctrl+f? 485 porn prefix 684 porn suffix

mellosouls 6y ago

Note to others before clicking: this list may hang your browser, it did mine (Chrome & Brave, Android; Lightning handled it fine tho I have everything turned off in that).

lucb1e 6y ago
I used Lightning (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/acr.browser.lightning/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/acr.browser.lightning/) to open it and worked fine for me out of the box (I don't think I set any special settings for performance). Firefox on a laptop is also fine of course, but that's a laptop.
OrderlyTiamat 6y ago
Firefox on android handled it without issue for me.

netsharc 6y ago

I wonder if there is a list of subdomains too. "jira." and "wiki." must be popular..