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Off I go to think of another domain to buy that I likely won’t use.

systemvoltage 5y ago
I can't be the only one! What websites do you use to find good domains? I use the following: - Dotomator - nothing like it, https://www.dotomator.com/ https://www.dotomator.com/ - Namechk - social media check, https://namechk.com/ https://namechk.com/
- edoceo 5y ago
  I wrote a tool in Go that looks up SOA, NS and A records across all TLDs
  - systemvoltage 5y ago
    Very cool, are these public APIs that anyone can access?
    - edoceo 5y ago
      Sorry, email my name at gmail and I can, maybe, get you something.
    - danskeren 5y ago
      Did something similar which is available here: https://ask.moe/domain/name-finder https://ask.moe/domain/name-finder
ChrisArchitect 5y ago
.com aside, I've been on the hunt lately for something general purpose for some misc projects and been really dismayed at difficulty in finding something available. Like there are a thousand TLDs now but for the extensions that are shorter/general all the reasonably also-shorter names are taken or offered at stupid premium prices. Really sucks holding me back from executing some side projects because hung up on the domain choice. Was just thinking to myself how it's shitty when some new project I saw by someone today was cool work but had to live on some .pizza domain and thought that could be better. Sigh.
- aembleton 5y ago
  If you've already got a domain, then just use a subdomain. The domain name is probably the least important thing that is stopping you from executing side projects.
  - ChrisArchitect 5y ago
    yeah, will use subdomains for sure but don't have the top-level yet. Need something general purpose and like I said, pretty hard to find something tech/project/net related
    - cpach 5y ago
      My 2¢: Don’t overthink it. Maybe look at .net and .se domains. If you can’t think of a name, just go through old Greek words or something like that. You’ll find something that works well enough! (^_^)

I can't be the only one! What websites do you use to find good domains? I use the following: - Dotomator - nothing like it, https://www.dotomator.com/ https://www.dotomator.com/ - Namechk - social media check, https://namechk.com/ https://namechk.com/

edoceo 5y ago
I wrote a tool in Go that looks up SOA, NS and A records across all TLDs
- systemvoltage 5y ago
  Very cool, are these public APIs that anyone can access?
  - edoceo 5y ago
    Sorry, email my name at gmail and I can, maybe, get you something.
  - danskeren 5y ago
    Did something similar which is available here: https://ask.moe/domain/name-finder https://ask.moe/domain/name-finder

ChrisArchitect 5y ago

.com aside, I've been on the hunt lately for something general purpose for some misc projects and been really dismayed at difficulty in finding something available. Like there are a thousand TLDs now but for the extensions that are shorter/general all the reasonably also-shorter names are taken or offered at stupid premium prices. Really sucks holding me back from executing some side projects because hung up on the domain choice. Was just thinking to myself how it's shitty when some new project I saw by someone today was cool work but had to live on some .pizza domain and thought that could be better. Sigh.

aembleton 5y ago
If you've already got a domain, then just use a subdomain. The domain name is probably the least important thing that is stopping you from executing side projects.
- ChrisArchitect 5y ago
  yeah, will use subdomains for sure but don't have the top-level yet. Need something general purpose and like I said, pretty hard to find something tech/project/net related
  - cpach 5y ago
    My 2¢: Don’t overthink it. Maybe look at .net and .se domains. If you can’t think of a name, just go through old Greek words or something like that. You’ll find something that works well enough! (^_^)