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http://steam.com/ http://steam.com/ used to be similar, but apparently they sold out later. I guess nothing is permanent. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20161

• smcl 4y ago
  I think this is a good example of how if your desired username/domain is already taken, there’s usually a clever tweak you can do to get a similar one that works. In the case of Steam they went with “steampowered.com” instead. It makes me wonder why so many people go with like “firstname225” rather than spending a couple of minutes coming up with something little bit less silly-looking. In fact there was a funny thing for a while where a user iterated through all the @kevin(number) Twitter users every Friday: https://www.gawker.com/5895578/weird-internets-how-one-man-is-getting-to-know-every-kevin-on-twitter https://www.gawker.com/5895578/weird-internets-how-one-man-i...
  • pcai 4y ago
    There are like 8 billion humans alive at any given moment though, so this trick doesn’t scale for usernames. “Just be a little creative” has been extremely unlikely to work for years now at say…gmail