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Show HN: Hipster Domain Finder
- ForHackernews 12y agodeflowr.com is available. Perfect for the startup that wants to be the ebay of virginity auctions. /s
- notahacker 12y agoI like the selection of names. eunu.ch anyone?
- audiodude 12y agoI cannot believe that fetus.es is still available!!
- Glyptodon 12y agoIt's gone now. :( I clicked through hoping it would still be around.
- akavi 12y agofan.gs was definitely the best. Who's the lucky one who snapped it up?
- sillysaurus3 12y agofreez.es would be a fun name for a programming blog.
- ShaneCurran 12y agoReally like the site. The domains are pretty good and it's nice that it only displays available domains.
- jackflintermann 12y agoWow, this is really good! I'm surprised at how many shortwords are still available given a little creativity.
- RKoutnik 12y agoWonderful logo and nice slight zoom on hover. It seems to be ordered by length/alphabet. It'd be nice to be able to sort by word usage as well (not many know what sutures are).
- sneak 12y agoDoes this mean that djb is the original hipster?!
- higherpurpose 12y agoIn case anyone else is wondering: http://cr.yp.to/ http://cr.yp.to/
- adamdavis 12y agoWhat exactly about this makes it a 'hipster' domain finder? edit: Obtuse question I guess. What makes it a hipster domain finder is the fact the author called it one. Please, carry on.
- gk1 12y agoYou wouldn't get it.
- ddt 12y agoThe term "hipster" has become more or less a catch-all for words such as * pretentious * egotistical * artsy * self-involved * preachy * irreverent * trendy and many many more. My favorite thing about the linguistic history of "hipster" is that it started out defined as "one who is hip", but has come to describe both the hip person and the hipness itself. Phrases like "hipster shoes" or "hipster band" come to mind.
- adamdavis 12y agoThanks. I'm well aware of what a hipster is and how the term is used in the context of modern slang, this doesn't really help answer my original question, however.
- ddt 12y agoI guess my point was that hipster is such an ill defined word that trying to understand why a particular thing is or is not hipster is futile.
- iamben 12y agoThis is great, thanks. Money spent!
- kingnight 12y agoBummer, all the good ones are reserved for 'Corporate service' according to the referral links and are $200/yr. Edit: Found & available elsewhere for cheaper, but probably for the best since I don't need to be buying domains...
- coffeecodecouch 12y agoSorry about that. The only domains that might be reserved for corporate services are those with the .ly TLD. Sadly the .ly whois server puts reserved and available domains in the same category. There are no referral links though, just regular links to Gandi because I like them and they support a wide range of TLD's.
- kingnight 12y agoNo worries. Interesting tidbits about the .ly domain. Also, thank you for putting the source up on github. Edit: Very nice and clean. + great art.
- soulshake 12y agoThis is awesome, you are awesome, and we at Gandi would love it if you could contact us so that we may shower you with t-shirts, discounts, kittens, and other wonderful things we haven't even thought of yet.
- coffeecodecouch 12y agoThanks for all the kind words! I'll take you up on that awesome offer. I'm sending a message through Gandi's contact form as I write this.
- Eduard 12y agospas.ms wow, that actually makes sense! Good match for a multiple sclerosis awareness website.
- devindotcom 12y agoNot sure that brand of levity would be appreciated by MS sufferers and supporters.
- Eduard 12y agoWell, you can always pivot to the lightsided side of diseases.
- coherentpony 12y agoThere's a light side to a neurodegenerative disease? I think you're treading on thin ice here.
- ereckers 12y agoThis got me to thinking about discoverability, seo, and distinction in general. Acquiring the domain name is one thing, but getting your business or app popular enough to outmuscle established businesses with less hip domain names is another. The domain and term [limelig.ht] caught my eye. In this instance, if you'd like to be known and searchable simply with the term "limelight" you'll have to beat out, limelight.com (Limelight Networks), a 1952 movie of the same name, and the dictionary definitions (wiki, etc.) for the term (it's actually not that bad really). At this point, even if your domain name is [getlimelight.com], you'd be counting on the same seo, success, and buzz as you would by using [limelig.ht], except that you wouldn't have to explain to anyone that, "it's limelig dot ht".
- badloginagain 12y agolimelight.wow
- hagbardgroup 12y agoHere's the way that I've seen great companies do it that works great for SEO but predated search engines: make up your own business term / buzzword. You advertise it through targeted display (cheap if managed well) plus PR. You then build marketing material around your buzzword. Search volume starts building around your buzzword. You satisfy those search queries and convert the people that you have pre-qualified with your own 'open sesame' magic combination of words into customers. This is also why a bunch of different companies will often collaborate on pumping one buzzword ('cloud computing' / 'the internet of things'): it makes it more affordable for all the companies involved to market a new major development that will take years to build out. There you go. Also, somehow Amazon clobbered a big river in South America for differentiation and recognition, so this isn't really that huge of a problem if the service is itself compelling and differentiated enough from the competitors. Barnes & Noble is a completely unique term, for example. 'Borders,' not entirely unique, but still more unique than Amazon. Also if advertising the website via audio/video is a big deal, you can always just make an easy to remember alternate site with your call to action and just redirect them to your real site. Domain exact match is not nearly as important now as it used to be for ranking on Google, and it's possible that domains will become more obscured to users than they are today in the future.
- karangoeluw 12y agoI liked brac.es. It could have been my new business's name. Sadly, it's gone. :(
- nickthemagicman 12y agoDammit which one of you took jimmi.es!!!! Im now rustled.
- jackflintermann 12y agoHaha, sorry! I snagged it for a friend. Bought it immediately upon sight - wasn't gonna let it get away after someone got sailbo.at from under me.
- ch4s3 12y agoI wanted sailbo.at so badly I cout taste the salt in the air.
- JustARandomGuy 12y agoCongrats on jimmi.es! I wanted sailbo.at as well, had to settle for another domain.
- nickthemagicman 12y agoCongrats! I hope there's a gorilla on there somewhere.
- listic 12y agoWhen and why did TLDs like .best, .rest and .sexy they get registered?
- steveklabnik 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain
- dmerrick 12y agoPicked up crow.bar. Now I need to think of something for which to use it!
- Vaanir 12y agoA Half Life fan site/blog?
- baldeagle 12y agohttp://m.mainstreethub.com/crowbar http://m.mainstreethub.com/crowbar
- tdaltonc 12y agoA javascript framework? For accessing obscure file types maybe?
- epsylon 12y agoHa damn, that's the coolest one I saw :-) Hope you'll do something cool with it!
- Josh412 12y agoCastle Black themed bar?
- shiftpgdn 12y agoJust a heads up to anyone thinking of buy one of these: Google ranks your site according to the TLD. Buying an .es vanity domain will tank your results in the English speaking world.
- jpdlla 12y agoReally? Well that just sucks. I was thinking of buying a good one I saw.
- shaaaaawn 12y agoYa, that's the point. It's not hipster if you can google it
- kevinqi 12y ago"psh, I knew about that site before it was indexed"
- dangayle 12y agoSpeaking as a reformed SEO nerd, Google does take it into account as part of their overall rankings, but by no means does that mean that your site will tank. They also know that your site is in English and that all the links are coming from English domains, etc. Please source this. Plenty of popular domains using ccTLDs rank just fine.
- glennon 12y agoTo be Mr. Know-it-All, these types of names are often referred to as domain hacks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack I was happy to grab dra.in a few years ago, though I wish I had bra.in.
- jtoeman 12y agoMeh. I remember back when you could only register .ly domains using a Japanese registrar. Now it's so mainstream.ly
- unfunco 12y agoI was actually thinking of a vanity domain (.es) and got all the way to the checkout process only to discover that the United Kingdom is not listed in the country selection (it's not under United Kingdom, Great Britain, Wales, or British Isles) so I backed out.
- damian2000 12y agoYou can try another registrar like namecheap for example, I think they sell .es domains...
- cwmma 12y agoIndeed, I picked up http://backfir.es http://backfir.es on name cheap
- tombrossman 12y agoUK is there: http://imgur.com/8JVl2HV http://imgur.com/8JVl2HV Hope you didn't miss out on registering something cool because of this!
- unfunco 12y agoNow registered, but used NameCheap as the comments below suggested. But thanks for this.
- hk__2 12y agoI get a lot of “Reserved to the Corporate service” when I try to buy one :/
- coffeecodecouch 12y agoSee my other comment[0] explaining why and when this happens. If you know of a (free) fix let me know! I suspect the .ly TLD might only give out more detailed whois data to large companies... [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7707250 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7707250
- dingaling 12y agoHmm that is a new and worrying development with Gandi. 129 domains that can only be bought by paying 45 UKP per month for a Corporate 'subscription'. https://www.gandi.net/corporate/extensions https://www.gandi.net/corporate/extensions
- soulshake 12y agoIt's not new: http://www.gandibar.net/post/2012/10/12/Why-does-Gandi-offer-Corporate-Services http://www.gandibar.net/post/2012/10/12/Why-does-Gandi-offer... TL;DR: those TLDs are more expensive because they're a pain in the ass and/or have to be handled manually, at least until they're integrated into our API.
- larrys 12y agoYet they use a .com for their own domain.
- memming 12y agoBecause they are not the "poo.rest"?
- abruzzi 12y agolater pages with longer domain names have some formatting issues: http://www.hipsterdomainfinder.com/p/11 http://www.hipsterdomainfinder.com/p/11
- karangoeluw 12y agoSent a PR to fix this.
- coffeecodecouch 12y agoMerged.
- iLoch 12y agofuhrr.com, for all your Nazi Web 2.0 needs.
- wil421 12y agoI am only familar with .com .net or .org domains. Do some of these ccTLDs require you to register with someone/some entity in that country?
- glennon 12y agoThis wikipedia table lists top level domains; if you click on an individual domain, the associated article usually includes restrictions, if any: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains#Country_code_top-level_domains http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_doma... Otherwise, I don't know of a simple definitive list.
- nmjohn 12y agoRelated site built (in part) by a friend of mine is http://domai.nr http://domai.nr You type in a word and it will break it down to see if a domain name hack is available for it.
- DigitalSea 12y agoI've been using domai.nr for as long as I can remember, I bought my last few domain names as a result of its clever way of breaking down domains into clever combinations. Great app.
- laoba 12y agoThe site seems very unreliable. It has shown multiple sites available, but clicking through shows they are not. For example: Will.me, Cl.io
- amcnett 12y agoEunu.ch - solid gold. {{ 100-percent-off-sale-joke }}
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- dkyc 12y agoThere definitely is a funeral-insurcance-disrupting startup in grave.ly...
- hftf 12y agoHere is a version of the list grouped by whether the TLD is the same as the last hyphenation point (e.g., crow.bar and not frig.ht). http://pastie.org/pastes/9147186/text http://pastie.org/pastes/9147186/text
- coffeecodecouch 12y agoHey that's impressive, good job.
- hftf 12y agoThanks! — but I hardly think it’s impressive scraping your website using kimono (besides, 40% of the hyphenation data is missing anyway…)
- jlev 12y agoDamn, dumplin.gs got snatched...
- zatkin 12y agoI nabbed a short domain for myself a while back and use it for my homepage (http://zk.gd http://zk.gd -- my name is Zack Gold). They're pretty groovy and I get some nice remarks[1]. [1] https://twitter.com/adamcaudill/status/445676390625861634 https://twitter.com/adamcaudill/status/445676390625861634
- datalus 12y agoI've got: http://d.atal.us http://d.atal.us Pretty hipster, had it since '06.
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- brokentone 12y agoData Lus?
- datalus 12y agoComputer Lice :D
- scrumper 12y agointimi.dating - an agency for physically imposing people to find love.
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- MatthewDP 12y agoside.bar is available, not bad.
- matthewarkin 12y agojust bought three domains because of this, now to figure out what to do with them.
- soulshake 12y agodomains4good.org
- stevewillows 12y agoWell, I'm not surprised that poo.rest is still available.
- lugg 12y agoTIL: Chromes Google translate looks for domain names and decides based on the tld's within which language is the source language. (A whole bunch of .es domains were showing when I looked, it tried to translate from spanish)
- iriche 12y agoI got barbwi.re not long ago :D
- petarb 12y agoThis definitely to a surge of impulse domain buying
- ca98am79 12y agoLibyan domains are awesome, but it's hard to find good ones nowadays. For anyone interested, the domain local.ly sold for $100,000: techcrunch.com/2011/11/09/domain-name-local-ly-sold-for-100000/
- scrumper 12y agoIt's amazing how many of the Libyan domains (i.e. ending in .ly) are words with negative connotations. From the very first section right now, I have "Crudely, harshly, cruelly, grossly, ghastly, awfully." The rest on the remaining 3 pages aren't much better! Is that because all the nice ones (rosi.ly, positive.ly, happi.ly) are gone? A quirk of the English language?