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Show HN: The remaining unregistered one-word .com domains
- xh208 12y agoWe made this as part of a weekend hack / side-project. We originally thought that the only words left would be mega long or ones that noone would recognize but surprisingly there are some quite good ones! As it stands, there are around 1.8k left. Interestingly, since we showed people on Reddit yesterday, there have been around 100 domains that were in the list but are now taken.
- nandreev 12y agoVery cool, some hilarious ones left. Kind of like the "land" no one wants.
- simonswords82 12y agoI just bought three new domains and now I feel dirty. Hope I don't get buyers remorse :) Cool app
- troels 12y agoIs it using a US-english dictionary or does it have both UK-en and US-en words?
- brador 12y agoCould we get a list on the site of those that are taken? Would be cool to see what people actually buy!
- uptown 12y agoWhat'd you find that you bought yourself?
- fencepost 12y agoI love that the first suggestion it made to me was "gangrening.com"
- troels 12y agoCool. Some of the words are very exotic, but then some are surprisingly common words. I wonder if there exists an index with a "commonality rating" that could be used to sort/weight the randomiser with, so that one could get more common words up first?
- impostervt 12y agoHere's where I pimp my side-project, which has a frequency score for words. https://www.wordsapi.com/docs#frequency https://www.wordsapi.com/docs#frequency
- troels 12y agoVery nice. What did you base the data on? Some 3rd party source or did you compile stats from a corpus of random texts?
- sehugg 12y agoWordNet has this. You can see it in action here [1] but you have to enable "Show Frequency Counts" in the pulldown. It has frequency counts for each "sense" of a word, not just the word. [1] http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
- wavee 12y agois this opensourced?
- xh208 12y agoThis isn't, no. It's based on/powered by our main project www.domcomp.com - a domain price comparison and availability checking tool. However, we are considering whether we can split some bits off to be opened sourced :)
- yifanlu 12y agoCan't believe teargassing.com isn't taken yet.
- cabirum 12y agoPublish the full list somewhere maybe? It's trivial to set up a Node app to get all 1.8k unique words from /shortname/domain, so you are at risk of getting unintentionally ddosed this way.
- theyCallMeSwift 12y agoFor those that are curious, here's ~1400 of them: https://gist.github.com/theycallmeswift/6e479d61b772543aa613 https://gist.github.com/theycallmeswift/6e479d61b772543aa613
- maxcellent 12y agoDid you just ddosed them to get the list? Why there is no down vote button here? Please respect others' work. Writing a scraper nowadays is not cool any more!
- xh208 12y agoConsidered putting in A mechanism to limit the number of words per person but decided not to. Oh well, its the Internet, what to do eh :)
- theyCallMeSwift 12y agoNope, they actually have a public API. Sounds like you might want to check out the FAQ for answer to your other question. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- droque 12y agoThe majority of them seem to be verbs.
- limeyx 12y ago...and no one wants "benumbs.com" :)
- anoncoder 12y agoThis rocks! There are still some great domain names. A huge time saver.