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Yeah, 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 dia

Yeah, 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 ago
Create your own word?
- steventey 6y ago
  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 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 ago
    Yeah 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.
  - deleted 6y ago
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  - hoki 6y ago
    It seems like there are services out there doing exactly that, i.e. https://zlipa.com https://zlipa.com
    - steventey 6y ago
      Yeah, 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
lubujackson 6y ago
Decent ones become available as dropped domains from time to time. The whole dropping domain process is convoluted, gross and benefits big players, but I have seen some decent ones fall through the cracks.
- steventey 6y ago
  Interesting! Though I think there are sites that track newly-dropped domains - park.io is one of them - and they are doing it pretty well already so I definitely recommend checking them out!
  - bhartzer 6y ago
    Epik has a list of the pending delete domains for the next few days in advance. You can download the list. There are good names that sell all the time. You just need to catch them or use a backorder service like namejet, dropcatch, etc.
    - steventey 6y ago
      Yeah, I just checked them out and they seem pretty legit. Gonna start using them to scout for good domain names and perhaps even find a way to integrate their list into One Word Domains :D
- dhosek 6y ago
  I lost quixote.com to a missed renewal e-mail and my being too cheap to pay the $20 fee for the expired domain thinking I could pick it up when it was released (in hindsight, ridiculously dumb). To make things worse, it was picked up by a Los Angeles film equipment company and for a while when I was taking grad math classes at CSULB, I would drive past a parking lot filled with trucks with quixote.com emblazoned on the side. It still gives me a little indigestion to think about that.
  - steventey 6y ago
    God, that sounds awful! I'm so sorry that happened to you :( This also goes to show how big the domain aftermarket is - perhaps next time you could list your domains on sites like Dan.com, where they'll renew it for you automatically and help you find buyers who are willing to pay for your domain?

leesec 6y ago

Create your own word?

steventey 6y ago
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 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 ago
  Yeah 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.
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- hoki 6y ago
  It seems like there are services out there doing exactly that, i.e. https://zlipa.com https://zlipa.com
  - steventey 6y ago
    Yeah, 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

lubujackson 6y ago

Decent ones become available as dropped domains from time to time. The whole dropping domain process is convoluted, gross and benefits big players, but I have seen some decent ones fall through the cracks.

steventey 6y ago
Interesting! Though I think there are sites that track newly-dropped domains - park.io is one of them - and they are doing it pretty well already so I definitely recommend checking them out!
- bhartzer 6y ago
  Epik has a list of the pending delete domains for the next few days in advance. You can download the list. There are good names that sell all the time. You just need to catch them or use a backorder service like namejet, dropcatch, etc.
  - steventey 6y ago
    Yeah, I just checked them out and they seem pretty legit. Gonna start using them to scout for good domain names and perhaps even find a way to integrate their list into One Word Domains :D
dhosek 6y ago
I lost quixote.com to a missed renewal e-mail and my being too cheap to pay the $20 fee for the expired domain thinking I could pick it up when it was released (in hindsight, ridiculously dumb). To make things worse, it was picked up by a Los Angeles film equipment company and for a while when I was taking grad math classes at CSULB, I would drive past a parking lot filled with trucks with quixote.com emblazoned on the side. It still gives me a little indigestion to think about that.
- steventey 6y ago
  God, that sounds awful! I'm so sorry that happened to you :( This also goes to show how big the domain aftermarket is - perhaps next time you could list your domains on sites like Dan.com, where they'll renew it for you automatically and help you find buyers who are willing to pay for your domain?