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One-Word Domains
- taylorhou 6y agoHmm I own some one to two word domains that are spelled differently (British vs us spelling) ie: Teale.com, splitcheque.com and others like calendur.com or ciaolongbao.com and juantons.com - all saved for the eventual day I have enough money and time to do whatever project I had planned for them. Lol
- steventey 6y agoHahaha I know the feeling - I've had my fair share of unused domains under my belt back in the days but I had to let go of them because of the hefty renewal fees :'( Hope you hold on to yours for as long as you can - or sell/lease them for a nice profit on Dan.com!
- dhosek 6y agoThey claim there's still an English word (an adjective) that's available as a .com domain but apparently it's not possible to see what it is from their site. I remember back in ’99 seeing a list of English words that were still available as .com It was short enough to read at a sitting and I was going through it looking for potential band names. The only one I remember was “osteoclasts.” Unfortunately, we didn’t have a hard enough sound to merit that name.
- uyaij 6y ago> They claim there's still an English word (an adjective) that's available as a .com domain but apparently it's not possible to see what it is from their site. I think that refers to "extra-small", which is a word in the linked gist: https://gist.github.com/hugsy/8910dc78d208e40de42deb29e62df913#file-gistfile1-txt-L352 https://gist.github.com/hugsy/8910dc78d208e40de42deb29e62df9...
- cirno 6y agoWhich was also registered eight days ago, it would seem.
- mattl 6y agoAnd isn’t one word.
- steventey 6y agoWeird - I just checked it on both Namecheap and Godaddy and apparently it's still available. Will double-check with the WHOIS database now. Thanks for letting me know!
- cirno 6y agoSure thing, I really appreciate your site by the way! There actually are services that list good available domain names already but they all want to sell you the list before you can even know if their list is any good, so I've never bothered. As for extra-small, I used Google Domains to check it, it certainly seems to be registered as of May 16th. https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/search/whois/extra-small.com?hl=en&searchTerm=extra-small.com https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/search/whois/extra-sm... I did some more digging, it appears that namecheap (or another registrar/reseller) squatted it and is reselling it as a premium domain for $190. I suppose in the most technical sense, it is available, but my assumption was that this was a list of unregistered domains rather than say an AfterNIC competitor. Would it be possible to note in your database which domains are unregistered and which are being scalped?
- steventey 6y agoInteresting! I didn't know that Namecheap was into domain name squatting but I guess the cat's out of the bag now! As for the note, I'll have to figure out how to do that because right now, all I can do is filter out the premium domains - which I suppose are the ones that are being scalped, right? Also, thank you for your kind words! And wow, I didn't know that people would actually sell lists like this - I was just building something that I knew I would want to use without really expecting anything in return, and I guess a lot of people found it useful too! :D
- steventey 6y agoYeah, I've been trying to find legible and pronounceable one-word .com domains but to no avail...the only ones I found were words like injudiciously.com or diarrhoeic.com haha Would appreciate some suggestions on what to do to improve on this!
- leesec 6y agoCreate your own word?
- steventey 6y agoI'm thinking of training a deep learning model on the top 10,000 startup names and use it to generate available .com domain names that could potentially be used for future projects as well. Not sure how feasible this is gonna be but I'm definitely gonna give it a try!
- leesec 6y agoYeah sounds like a fun project but also a bit overkill to me. I would just take an existing word and change some of the letters. Rivora, Espirole, Calind. There ya go here's 3. Didn't check if they have domains or not but it really shouldn't take long to find a reasonable sounding 1 word untaken name.
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- hoki 6y agoIt seems like there are services out there doing exactly that, i.e. https://zlipa.com https://zlipa.com
- steventey 6y agoYeah, there are certainly a lot of really cool products out there that does this...namelix.com is one of them as well. But damn, I really love Zilpa's UX! Thanks for sharing! :D
- pmachinery 6y agoAs of right now napalming.com is available, autocratically.com, cauterizes.com, peronist.com, pickaninnies.com, and doubtless many more. Most one-word .COMs are weird/obscure, related to negative things or end in S, so not much use for a business. Fornicates.com was available recently though, as was goriest.com, both of which are not bad for less mainstream sites. Outside .COM there are tons of one word domains. imagines.org was one of the ones I liked when I used to check under that extension. Any Michaels here might be interested in micks.org. chiptune.org isn't bad. takeouts.org is available. And, uh, poontang.org. I think I'll end this now. Since there seem to be a few domain related submissions at HN recently, for anyone wanting to register a name, Namecheap has a $6.06 .COM promo currently.
- boustrophedon 6y agoBe careful with namecheap. I used to use them for everything (and still have several domains registered with them), but one of my domains was a short word on an obscure TLD. This year they increased the price by 15x, and support tried to pass the blame by claiming "the registry decided it's a premium domain." The registry may decide whether a domain is "premium" or not, but I had no issues transferring it to Google Domains and paying less than what I was paying before.
- Klinky 6y agoI've been moving domains from Namecheap to Porkbun due to ever increasing renewal prices, it's something like $5 cheaper per domain with Porkbun. I didn't see the 15x increase you saw though.
- steventey 6y agoHmmm...I'm debating between Porkbun, Iwantmyname and Domain.com - which one do you guys think I should add next?
- joering2 6y agoSuggest checking out Dynadot - they always run some promos and I typically get .com for 99 cents first year. Then they are $8.99 including proxy/privacy. I had many of issues over the years that were flawlessly solved with Dynadot chat support. Issues I was unable to fix with NameCheap (who has all customer support team in Eastern-block of Europe, so "made in America" does not apply), and also GoDaddy gave me issues. Besides I had a small back-and-forth battle here on HN with Namecheap CEO (I won), but needless to say it showed how unprofessional and childish the CEO of such popular company can be. Also Namesilo is gaining some traction. Reliable, worth trying, but no chat help.
- jshawl 6y agoamusing that the domain hosting this site is a two word domain
- hirundo 6y agoThe only .com domain on the site is `extra-small.com`. How is that a one word domain? Maybe two words count as one if they're extra small.
- steventey 6y agoYou bring up a good point, and I've been pondering about this for a while now - do you think I should remove all the hyphens from the domains before querying them? Like, instead of "extra-small.com", should I be querying "extrasmall.com" instead?
- hirundo 6y agoWith or without the hyphen, it's two words. But for the purposes of the value of the site, rather than pedantry, it probably doesn't much matter.
- nailer 6y agoAre you the author? If you're new to marketing: domains with a dash in them are considered seconds rate to domains that don't have a dash.
- steventey 6y agoYes I am! And I totally get it - I'm pretty much a branding geek myself. I've been debating whether to remove the dashes even when I first started building the site, and this just gives me more reason to remove them from the word list. Stay tuned for the next update! ;)
- bhartzer 6y agoYeah I wouldn’t ever use a hyphenated domain for your primary site. Ok to register it and 301 redirect it to your site, but if you use it for your primary site you will lose traffic to the non hyphenated version.
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- anzhelika18 6y agoI love how "extra-small.com" is the only .com domain left - only goes to show how scarce .com domains are these days :/
- steventey 6y agoI know! Would love some suggestions on how to fix this though - or should I just scrap the whole .com section altogether?
- donmcronald 6y agoMaybe you could do something with 2 words that are short, easy to spell, easy to pronounce, and memorable. I was able to register an 8 letter .com like that (2x 4-letter words) a couple years ago.
- steventey 6y agoYup! I mentioned this in a previous comment but I'm thinking of training a deep learning model on the top 10,000 startup names and use it to generate available .com domain names that could potentially be in the format of a two-word domain too! Not sure how feasible this is gonna be but I'm definitely gonna give it a try!
- JMTQp8lwXL 6y agoIt's not available either. > whois extra-small.com ... Creation Date: 2020-05-16T16:56:51Z ...
- steventey 6y agoThat's weird...last time I checked on both Namecheap and Godaddy - the domain was still available :O
- steventey 6y agoHey everyone! Maker of One Word Domains here. I recently launched this on Product Hunt and got some pretty good feedback there and was looking forward to launching it on Hacker News as well but oh well, someone did it for me To give you guys some backstory, I was dabbling around with Flask the other day and decided to build something that I would’ve loved to use when I was trying to find a good name for my startup - a database of all the available one-word domain names out there. It’s a pretty straightforward idea but somehow I’ve never been able to find a resource like this online so I decided to make one myself. Also, since this is my first time building a web-app from scratch, I'd appreciate any constructive criticism you guys have for me - don't be afraid to tear me apart with your feedback. As of right now, here are a few features that I am planning to add to the website: - A synonym feature, where you can click on each domain and it'll show you synonyms to that domain that are available (I was actually planning to post about OWD on Hacker News today but I was met with a few obstacles when trying to build this feature, so I had to postpone the launch) - A "staff picks" section for each TLD page - .dev TLD page - gotta give back to the dev community! Let me know what you guys think about these features. Also, please let me know any suggestions that you might have that could make this better. Thanks a lot! P.S.: Also, I'm thinking about removing domains that were purchased from the "most popular" and "recently viewed" sections - should I do that or should I leave them there? I'm just worried that by leaving them there it's a little misleading - people might think it's still available. ~ Steven
- lasagna_coder 6y agoThis tool is pretty cool, would be helpful to see prices I guess too. A table format would be easier to navigate. I recently found a TLD that seems underused and has one "total" word potential (chars incl tld as a single word) > .ge Also can I recommend putting links to other domain providers like porkbun, their platform is super usable and prices are decent.
- steventey 6y agoThanks for the suggestions! I've been thinking about adding prices and maybe even a way for you to filter for a specific price range but I'm worried about the pricing discrepancies between different domain name providers so I decided to stick with the Premium and Regular domains distinction instead. Also, I love the "total" word potential - I'll figure out a way on how to incorporate that! As for Porkbun, I've received a couple of suggestions to add that, and I'll definitely consider adding it to the mix!
- devilmoon 6y agoI think you should totally track the .it TLD, it's the Italian one but works wonderfully for word plays in English (and if iirc I've seen a few websites taking advantage of it). Some straightforward examples that come to mind would be buy.it, ship.it, design.it etc., you name(.)it ;) Edit: also, being the Italian TLD I'm guessing quite a few English words are still available
- MattGaiser 6y agoYou have to be in the European Union to register one though. No more English speaking countries in it except for Malta.
- toast0 6y agoDo you need to be, or can you have a "designated person" in the EU? Higher end registrars are happy to supply designated people for address requirement purposes.
- surfearth 6y agoIreland is an English-speaking EU member nation.
- CtrlShiftI 6y agoAwww, damn it. Got my hopes up for .it tld
- steventey 6y agoThanks for the suggestion! I've been a fan of the .it TLD especially with products like repl.it repping the brand so I'll definitely consider adding it in my next update!
- lubujackson 6y agoMy fav now is .is, which is Iceland's cc. It has opened to everyone about a year ago (with some minimal paperwork), it's cheapish ($33 from Namecheap I believe) and makes fun domains (truth.is, acting.is). It is also one of the least squatted cc domains, likely because it isn't available from most places like GoDaddy. It also doesn't hurt that Iceland is a stable, independent and protective of rights. I worry about .io and wouldn't want to lock a business into that domain space.
- moralestapia 6y agoI love/hate these kind of projects. On one hand they give amazing suggestions and prove useful to small scale devs like me and others coming here. On the other hand, a few weeks from now most of them will be snatched by squatters, essentially rendering them useless for small scale devs like me and others coming here.
- steventey 6y agoHahaha, I'm sorry about this! I've come to realize how this site can be used with malignant intent - even domain registrars could be stalking this site and bump up the prices for domains that people have been viewing a lot. I guess I can just hope that these things don't actually happen and that I've built a tool that can help people find their dream domains. :')
- moralestapia 6y agoIt is a great tool nonetheless, thanks for sharing it!
- stanislavb 6y agoYeah, showing the number of views is against the interest of people looking for domains.
- hocuspocus 6y ago> Filter by: all alphabets Those are letters, not alphabets.
- steventey 6y agoWait, really? I've always thought those two words were interchangeable. Should I change it from "alphabets" to "letters" to avoid misleading users?
- walrus01 6y agoThis reminds me a bit of http://www.taco.com http://www.taco.com which is delightfully 1996 vintage design. I wonder how much money they've been offered to sell or lease the domain for something like ubereats/doordash Mexican food delivery.
- steventey 6y agoOof, I can only imagine! But if I were to take a guess, I'd say it's probably in the 7-8 figure range!
- donmcronald 6y agoAnd it's using Cloudflare! Hopefully it's Cloudflare --> Basement Closet. Lol.
- steventey 6y agoCloudflare for the win! :D
- otikik 6y agoname-squatters.business
- steventey 6y agoOoof. Really hope no name-squatters misuse this tool. Please!!
- throwaway12392 6y agoI don't know what dictionary they are using, but it apparently contains the words "compaq", "msgid" and "milfhunter". https://www.oneword.domains/available-io-domains https://www.oneword.domains/available-io-domains
- steventey 6y agoYeah it's kinda funny - I recently logged into my Google Search Console and realized that my site has been ranking for some rather questionable keywords like "housewives handjobs" and even "ampland", simply because the dictionary I used has those words. :'D
- lubujackson 6y agoI recommend adding .is. Recently opened up and plenty of single words available, partially because they are only available for purchase from a few sites - NameCheap is the best and cheapest.
- steventey 6y agoSure! Feel free to add a suggestion at the "Suggest a TLD" section on the homepage - I'm trying to gauge which TLD is to most wanted to figure out which one to support next. ;)
- bhartzer 6y agoLook at ntldstats, you can see the most popular tlds. I’d start with the most popular ones like .xyz and .icu with the most domain registrations.
- sharker8 6y agoToo bad this only goes to godaddy and namecheap, both of which upsell you on whois guard privacy.
- ryanwaggoner 6y agoWHOIS guard privacy has been free on Namecheap for awhile
- ykevinator 6y agoName cheap has raised prices, I switched to porkbun
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- steventey 6y agoI'm considering adding a few other domain registrars like Domain.com, Porkbun, and Iwantmyname. Which one would you recommend to add first?
- niftylettuce 6y agoSlap Forward Email on your new domain and you've got email. https://forwardemail.net https://forwardemail.net
- steventey 6y agoSuper interesting! Does this allow you to send from said email as well?
- niftylettuce 6y agoYes, of course.
- gpm 6y agoI just got a domain for the first time yesterday, and decided to go with migadu.com instead. You can forward mail to/from gmail with it basically the same, it has a very low sending limit on the free plan (but I'm not sure if that applies to mail forwarded from gmail), and it claims to attach a footer on the free plan (like forwardmail.net does), but it doesn't actually seem to do so to mail forwarded from gmail. https://www.migadu.com/en/guides/gmail.html https://www.migadu.com/en/guides/gmail.html Meanwhile it has it's own webmail/pop3/smtp servers so it will be easy to move away from gmail entirely in the future. I also just really liked the tone of the website, I have a lot more confidence in them not doing scummy things than I do in forwardmail.net not doing scummy things (though that is just based on reading a website, not the most reliable indicator ever). Anyways, we will see in a few months if I think I made the right choice.
- steventey 6y agoI really like Migadu is offering - since I don't really send that many emails at the moment, I think the 10-email limit isn't too bad! And if it doesn't really attach a footer, that's even better! Thanks for sharing!
- niftylettuce 6y agoI'm the founder of Forward Email. We are 100% open source and privacy focused. We're the only service like this. Nobody compares in terms of respecting your right to privacy.
- adamfaliq 6y agoHi Steven! Nice work here and I'm really inspired by the design, especially because this is your first web-app from scratch. I've always wanted to learn frontend programming/ design but am intimidated by CSS/ Bootstrap since there are too many screen sizes to take account of. Could you recommend resources/ links to learn more about frontend design/ programming? Thank you!
- steventey 6y agoHey Adam! Thanks a lot for your kind words! And I totally get where you're coming from - I've always been intimidated by responsive designs as well, but then I learned about percentages and screen-size specific designs and though the process is a little tedious, I was able to finally make my designs responsive and conducive on different screen sizes. As for resources, I usually refer a lot to CSS Tricks, Codepen.io, W3 Schools, GeeksforGeeks, and good old StackOverflow when I'm building my websites. Hope this helps! Also, feel free to reach out to me via Twitter - I would love to keep in touch with you there!
- adamfaliq 6y agoThanks for the advice, Steven. Sure, I'll follow you on Twitter.
- vz8 6y agoThanks OP. Just picked up impartial.app - might try a just-for-fun side project and hook it into some sort a decision making algo and/or crowd-sourced vote. Premise: User can't decide something and must enter N possible options, then have the app pick the winner. Twist: The user doesn't ever define the problem, just potential choices. a) $20,000 b) Snowball it c) Propose d) Cupertino Impartial.app says: __________
- jagannathtech 6y agoImpartial.app says: yes
- steventey 6y agoOooh, I love this idea! Can totally see how this could replace random number generators and make the whole user experience - however brief it might be - 10 times as amazing! Great choice!
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- leshow 6y ago"Staff picks": "seargent.ai" What the heck is a "seargent"? I assume they mean "sergeant"?
- steventey 6y agoOh Christ, I can't believe I made such a stupid mistake. Gonna go fix that now, brb! Thanks for pointing it out btw!
- demarq 6y agoI bought one for an app... that I haven't even started building. I feel like a straight up squatter now :( but seriously who is going to visit your site when the domain is name is myawesomeapp2020.com might as well purchase the domain in advance right?
- steventey 6y agoHahaha yeah, I used to buy a bunch of domains thinking that I was gonna do something with them only to end up letting them expire in a year :'( But don't worry, you'll find a viable business idea/business model for it soon, I believe in you!
- ken 6y agoI think much more highly of a two- or three-word .com than a one-word .{co,ai,io,...} These are clever but I wouldn't call them good.
- steventey 6y agoYup! As I mentioned in a previous comment, I'm thinking of training a deep learning model on the top 10,000 startup names and use it to generate available .com domain names that could potentially be in the format of a two-word/three-word domains too! Not sure how feasible this is gonna be but I'm definitely gonna give it a try!
- _eht 6y agoI have quite a few in this category that would probably sell. Are you considering allowing listings?
- steventey 6y agoYes! I'm actually considering adding a "Featured Listings" section where you can list your domains - feel free to sign up on the newsletter and I'll let you know when it's ready! :D
- willart4food 6y ago#RAD #MVP Good idea, even better implementation.
- steventey 6y agoDamn, thanks a lot for the praise! Glad I was able to build a tool that many people resonated with :D
- joelrunyon 6y agoIs there a way to list domains that fit this criteria?
- steventey 6y agoWhat criteria are you referring to?
- amberj8 6y agoThe fact that you can't open any of the sub links in new tabs (1 domain left, notify me) is just so damn frustrating. why make this as some stupid one page app?!
- steventey 6y agoI apologize for the faulty user experience - I gotta admit, the file structure for my app is rather rudimentary, as this was my first time building a Flask app and I didn't really put much thought into file structuring. I'll make note of this and maybe make some changes to this in future versions of the app. Thanks a lot for your feedback!
- amberj8 6y agoI'm sorry, I really didn't mean to be too rude to you - I'm usually so polite online the rare times I even post.. its just that there's so many damn sites these days that do it - it totally breaks the normal/traditional browsing experience. Again, thanks for being so cool, I didn't mean to really direct that at you- it was just a general "old man yells at cloud" kind of thing. it's a great site btw, good luck with it!!
- steventey 6y agoNooo, don't need to apologize, I really appreciate the direct feedback - it's the kind of feedback that really helps you improve the user experience for your product after all! So yeah, thank you so much again for the feedback, and thanks for being so encouraging! :D