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Ask: The hunt for good domain names

11 points by joshu 16y ago

Anyone got some good domain names to sell? I am tearing my hair out to get something I really like.

pinko 16y ago
Uh... can you be any more specific, or does the meaning not matter at all?
- joshu 16y ago
  I was hoping for something I could use as a brand, rather than something functional-sounding. We're building social software to help people get things done. It's pretty widely interpretable.
dave1619 16y ago
What's your budget?
- joshu 16y ago
  We can pay anything reasonable, but I'll just go for some other name rather than overpay. That is to say: it depends on how awesome it is.
phlux 16y ago
I am pretty good at this... but can you give me more info on what your doing? Here are some domains I came up with and am in various states of doing stuff with some of them... BROWSETHROUGH.ME BROWSETHROUGH.US CHIRPCHAT.COM CIRROSTRAT.US CONFERO.US DICIPUL.US DOCTRIN.US DOTSTAT.US DROIDOC.COM FLIGHTR.COM IMBUED.US MEDSTAT.US MEDSTRAT.US REPLET.US SECUT.US TEXTOO.US TEXTUO.US THELIFEWIKI.COM TIMESTAT.US VOLITICAL.ORG WHATSTAT.US JOTBOX.ME
iworkforthem 16y ago
I am letting go - nameego.com and wearstartup.com @ $5 each.
staunch 16y ago
I bought bawk.com recently but probably will use another one as it turns out. I'd sell it to you for what it cost me because I'm a fan. I'll email you details if you like it.
- bmelton 16y ago
  If that's still available, I'd gladly take it off your hands.
vipivip 16y ago
DailySter.com
- joshu 16y ago
  http://burri.to/~joshua/fut.html http://burri.to/~joshua/fut.html i should update this old thing
fourstar 16y ago
Snerk.com?
T2P 16y ago
I make it a point not to buy a domain I don't have a use for. There has been ~50-75 domains I checked in the last month that were nothing but godaddy parked domain pages. That being said, I usually just pick some words and phrases I like, and hit the thesaurus. If you're persistent and lucky, you'll hit a good+available .com
revorad 16y ago
I have a few although I'm not sure they would be good for you. If you can tell me what sort of domain name you want (some theme, keywords etc) I can find good names which are available. Trust me, I'm really good at this.
joshu 16y ago
I actually built something to generate nice word-sounding nonwords and found hundreds of interesting domains. Maybe i should build a product out of that.
- fakelvis 16y ago
  Like Wordoid? http://wordoid.com/ http://wordoid.com/ It can occasionally come up with some gems and is one of the three tools I use when trying to find available domains (the others being http://domai.nr/ http://domai.nr/ and http://impossibility.org/ http://impossibility.org/)
jqueryin 16y ago
I generally perform a mass whois search with a bunch of keyword combinations and add some prefixes and suffixes for popular endings like LY, ER, ED, S, R, etc. I created a pretty simple PHP script for doing this which I have since made drastic improvements to, but this should get you started: http://www.jqueryin.com/2010/04/12/finding-available-domains-by-keyword-combination-in-php/ http://www.jqueryin.com/2010/04/12/finding-available-domains... The whole thing stores to a file as well as uses a couple different WHOIS servers to avoid you getting temporarily banned by randomly picking one.
- deleted 16y ago
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fakelvis 16y ago
I knew there was a previous, related discussion. HN Domain Exchange: Add your unused domains http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794289 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794289
haploid 16y ago
We got our domain names by approaching the registrant and making an offer. There are plenty of domain names that are not listed on the ripoff domain name sales sites. Find something you like and make an offer.
biggs83 16y ago
I recently bought kidzys.com
darrennix 16y ago
I once wrote a script to crawl the entire US dictionary for words that hadn't already been registered. Anybody dying to own limbate.com or vesuviate.com?
revorad 16y ago
Emailed contact@tastylabs with some names which are available.
keiferski 16y ago
I'm trying to sell a number of domains. Take a look and see if you like any. https://www.sedo.co.uk/search/searchresult.php4?showportfolio=1b9e247bcf3aab2c5e12678298488c172b4fd02b https://www.sedo.co.uk/search/searchresult.php4?showportfoli... Thanks!
myearwood 16y ago
Webstagram.com check my profile for my email address
pbj 16y ago
I'm looking to get rid of curvd.com, labld.com, velvt.com, boostd.com, and remoteli.com Email: gs@bouncr.com

11 points by joshu 16y ago

Anyone got some good domain names to sell? I am tearing my hair out to get something I really like.

pinko 16y ago

Uh... can you be any more specific, or does the meaning not matter at all?

joshu 16y ago
I was hoping for something I could use as a brand, rather than something functional-sounding. We're building social software to help people get things done. It's pretty widely interpretable.

dave1619 16y ago

What's your budget?

joshu 16y ago
We can pay anything reasonable, but I'll just go for some other name rather than overpay. That is to say: it depends on how awesome it is.

phlux 16y ago

I am pretty good at this... but can you give me more info on what your doing? Here are some domains I came up with and am in various states of doing stuff with some of them... BROWSETHROUGH.ME BROWSETHROUGH.US CHIRPCHAT.COM CIRROSTRAT.US CONFERO.US DICIPUL.US DOCTRIN.US DOTSTAT.US DROIDOC.COM FLIGHTR.COM IMBUED.US MEDSTAT.US MEDSTRAT.US REPLET.US SECUT.US TEXTOO.US TEXTUO.US THELIFEWIKI.COM TIMESTAT.US VOLITICAL.ORG WHATSTAT.US JOTBOX.ME

iworkforthem 16y ago

I am letting go - nameego.com and wearstartup.com @ $5 each.

staunch 16y ago

I bought bawk.com recently but probably will use another one as it turns out. I'd sell it to you for what it cost me because I'm a fan. I'll email you details if you like it.

bmelton 16y ago
If that's still available, I'd gladly take it off your hands.

vipivip 16y ago

DailySter.com

joshu 16y ago
http://burri.to/~joshua/fut.html http://burri.to/~joshua/fut.html i should update this old thing

fourstar 16y ago

Snerk.com?

T2P 16y ago

I make it a point not to buy a domain I don't have a use for. There has been ~50-75 domains I checked in the last month that were nothing but godaddy parked domain pages. That being said, I usually just pick some words and phrases I like, and hit the thesaurus. If you're persistent and lucky, you'll hit a good+available .com

revorad 16y ago

I have a few although I'm not sure they would be good for you. If you can tell me what sort of domain name you want (some theme, keywords etc) I can find good names which are available. Trust me, I'm really good at this.

joshu 16y ago

I actually built something to generate nice word-sounding nonwords and found hundreds of interesting domains. Maybe i should build a product out of that.

fakelvis 16y ago
Like Wordoid? http://wordoid.com/ http://wordoid.com/ It can occasionally come up with some gems and is one of the three tools I use when trying to find available domains (the others being http://domai.nr/ http://domai.nr/ and http://impossibility.org/ http://impossibility.org/)

jqueryin 16y ago

I generally perform a mass whois search with a bunch of keyword combinations and add some prefixes and suffixes for popular endings like LY, ER, ED, S, R, etc. I created a pretty simple PHP script for doing this which I have since made drastic improvements to, but this should get you started: http://www.jqueryin.com/2010/04/12/finding-available-domains-by-keyword-combination-in-php/ http://www.jqueryin.com/2010/04/12/finding-available-domains... The whole thing stores to a file as well as uses a couple different WHOIS servers to avoid you getting temporarily banned by randomly picking one.

deleted 16y ago
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fakelvis 16y ago

I knew there was a previous, related discussion. HN Domain Exchange: Add your unused domains http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794289 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794289

haploid 16y ago

We got our domain names by approaching the registrant and making an offer. There are plenty of domain names that are not listed on the ripoff domain name sales sites. Find something you like and make an offer.

biggs83 16y ago

I recently bought kidzys.com

darrennix 16y ago

I once wrote a script to crawl the entire US dictionary for words that hadn't already been registered. Anybody dying to own limbate.com or vesuviate.com?

revorad 16y ago

Emailed contact@tastylabs with some names which are available.

keiferski 16y ago

I'm trying to sell a number of domains. Take a look and see if you like any. https://www.sedo.co.uk/search/searchresult.php4?showportfolio=1b9e247bcf3aab2c5e12678298488c172b4fd02b https://www.sedo.co.uk/search/searchresult.php4?showportfoli... Thanks!

myearwood 16y ago

Webstagram.com check my profile for my email address

pbj 16y ago

I'm looking to get rid of curvd.com, labld.com, velvt.com, boostd.com, and remoteli.com Email: gs@bouncr.com