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Show HN: Unregistered word.tld domain names for your project
- thiele 13y agoHey HN, Over the weekend, I built Dictionary Domains to make it super easy to find unregistered {word}.{tld} domains for your next project. There's some pretty great tools out there that help find domains: I really like Lean Domain Search and back in the day I used Bust A Name a ton. But really, I'm a huge fan of simple verb/noun/adjective domains. I'd happily compromise on the .com extension to get something clean and meaningful. Here's some of my favorites from the site: kaput.io proud.cc jud.ge measly.co quaint.io punch.cc closed.cc bubble.io stran.ge chilly.io rainy.io dama.ge puny.io quicke.st Hopefully you find it helpful!
- Kronopath 13y agoPretty nice. A suggestion though: it would be nice to be able to search by synonyms or definition rather than just exact words. That way if you know you're searching for something to do with eg. "mail", you'd get a set of words that are (at least tangentially) related to it that you can choose from.
- chaosmachine 13y agoHey, nice site. I actually built a very similar tool a few months ago: http://shortdomainsearch.net/ http://shortdomainsearch.net/
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- reedlaw 13y agoI love it! I registered one of the domains with Namecheap for 5 years. Hope you get some commission from it.
- jack57 13y agoThis is an awesome, simple idea. There's something to be said about simplicity. I wish I had an idea like that!
- jobnobber 13y agoA great idea. I bought three. Also, thanks for not using GoDaddy. It's one of the reasons I decided to make some buys.
- solutionyogi 13y agoI don't know if I should hate you or love you. I got an awesome domain even though I had decided last year that I will never buy a domain ever again. Great project, well done.
- officialjunk 13y agoWhat domains did you buy before publicizing this?
- avoiceandname 13y agoAlready found & bought a domain (& marked it as taken :D) Thanks for such an awesome site!
- thiele 13y agoThat's awesome! Now build cool stuff with your new name :)
- justinlilly 13y agoThe best part about this site is figuring out what exactly might be a good use for things like creepy.io :)
- thiele 13y agoIt's funny how product ideas pop up once you see a certain name.
- c0nfused 13y agoThere really ought to be a contest like this. Who ever wins gets the domain
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- matznerd 13y agoWhat about a hackathon or something where they give your team a product name and you have to build something fitting?
- samuelhulick 13y agoWhat a great weekend project - thanks for putting this together!
- eli 13y agoMan, I wrote a script to do this for .com names like 15 years ago. I probably should have bought a couple.
- thiele 13y agoHa, yeah, it'd be interesting to see which domains on there became valuable and/or successful companies. After I made this I saw Andy Baio did a list back in 2002 too: http://waxy.org/projects/domains/ http://waxy.org/projects/domains/
- rguldener 13y agoThis looks very nice, any chance you'll add per TLD filtering? Eg. only show me .com, .us and .io but not .ly Synonyms would also be great as others have mentioned Edit: Ah I should have clicked the TLDs :) Edit 2: And on the Desktop just noticed the filter button, sorry, that one is invisible when I view the site on my phone
- thiele 13y agoThere's a filter button there too where you can select the TLD you want to see.
- jack57 13y agoWouldn't it be nicer if the domain names were divided alphabetically into 26 labelled pages? Right now it's 29 and difficult to browse.
- mattl 13y agoIn the URL: words?utf8=✓ Nicely done.
- munificent 13y agoThis triggering a maddening desire to make some impulse purchases. Well done.
- vonmoltke 13y agoI'm now up to 22 names owned thanks to this site. :P
- Jack000 13y agoalso a victim of op.. I'm up to 15, though I do plan on using all of them.
- davidandgoliath 13y agoWe all plan on using all of them. :(
- matznerd 13y agoIf you only own 22, consider yourself lucky lol, I'm in way deeper.
- thiele 13y agoIt definitely triggers a 'Fear Of Missing Out' response.
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- joelrunyon 13y agoDAA = Domain Addicts Anonymous. There should be a support group.
- jobnobber 13y agoHa. So true. DomainAddictsAnonymous.com is taken btw :(
- metermaid 13y agochallen.ge is my favourite from the page; it'd be great for hackathons/competitions/any sort of challenging or educational app.
- primitivesuave 13y agoThis is like the holy grail for domain squatters - hopefully they don't read HN. Also, mad props on the "domain hack" feature.
- thiele 13y agoBuy early ;)
- dsl 13y agoUgh. HN jerks have already added them all to their carts on 101domains, so you can't check out.
- schenecstasy 13y agoYeah I was thinking this was a great gift to them too.
- larrys 13y agoActually people who are knowledgeable in the domain business do not waste time speculating with .me .io .cc .whatever because the market is so limited to resale. Chance of selling one of those is exceedingly slim.
- ca98am79 13y agoMany .io and .me domains have sold for 5 figures. buy.me went for over $155,000. I have personally sold many for 4 figures.
- hayksaakian 13y agoI couldn't figure out how to filter by .com Are all .com dictionary words simply taken?
- emhart 13y agoLove it! Simple, clean and really useful. Do you plan to keep adding words as time goes on?
- joelrunyon 13y agoWelp, you've already made me buy one of them. Any chance you could do filtering based on some of them? For example, some of them you need to have a local presence to register. Great site.
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- dasil003 13y agoPosting this here is like bringing a bottle of bourbon to an AA meeting.
- joelrunyon 13y agoI said something earlier like this, but this is a much better analogy.
- lightyrs 13y agoJust bought rhyme.io. Thanks for the site!
- kimburgess 13y agoNice idea. New project domain purchased (and marked). Come at me weekend.
- audiodude 13y agoWhen given the chance to register a domain for free, I chose 0-z-0.com. The idea was that it's a simple, generic domain. I now host things at something.0-z-0.com and if it becomes more than a weekend project I might migrate it to its own domain.
- arasmussen 13y agoNo .com?
- himal 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7146763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7146763
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- JonnieCache 13y agoSort by length brings up some fun results that nobody wants: Sore, Gamy, Lewd, Nosy, Pale, Damp, Dull and Glib. They sound like foul dwarves. EDIT: it goes on for pages and pages. quite an alarming list of words. you could try and turn them into poetry but it might be a bit upsetting.
- thiele 13y agoLUL, thanks for the bug report. I'll take a look!
- JonnieCache 13y agoAwww, don't change it! At least add a button to put the wonky unloved words back in.
- pdxmitch 13y agoNice work. Pretty sure Bieber is going to snatch up all the Alleged domains and extensions.
- cynical_slave 13y agoI find domai.nr quite useful and comfy: https://domai.nr https://domai.nr
- kassner 13y agoAny chance to opensource this? Will be very useful for implementing in another languages and non-english countries.