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probably a good lesson - basically where-ever possible - register the .com, probably the .net, the twitter,gmail,hotmail,yahoo,wordpress,blogspot names as well.
by whatusername 18y ago
probably a good lesson - basically where-ever possible - register the .com, probably the .net, the twitter,gmail,hotmail,yahoo,wordpress,blogspot names as well.
- sjs382 18y agoWho's gonna be the first to create a tool that does that all for you? :)
- matt1 18y agoThere was a rate my startup type post a few months back of a site that checked the availability of user names on all those sites with a single click. If you can find it, it's probably as close as you're going to get (since it'd be very hard with all the CAPTCHAs to automate the name registration). Mechanical Turk, anyone?
- sjs382 18y agoWell I guess you could automate everything except the captchas. Just ask the user for a name. After that check availability on serviceX, display captcha, repeat.
- whatusername 18y agohttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10223183-2.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10223183-2.html that looks like the startup you're talking about