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Show HN: Browse recently expired, pronounceable domain names (Part
II)
Author : TheMask01
Score : 73 points
Date : 2020-07-01 18:48 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (decentdrops.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (decentdrops.com)
| pdxandi wrote:
| This is great, but most of these don't seem that pronounceable to
| me.
| anirudhmurali wrote:
| Is it possible to add a column with the Page Rank or Domain
| Authority of the particular domain?
| TheMask01 wrote:
| You know I briefly looked in to it because I'm not dumb I
| understand it'd make this unstoppable, but there's very few
| options with very high prices. You never know with what the
| future holds but yeah, not cheap. Definitely doable though.
|
| The good thing about 'our' filtering is that it would take down
| the number of daily requests to their API, but still...a. lot.
| I wouldn't say it's out of the question even remotely, I have
| the funds but am cautious with my finances/investments. But
| you're right and I should definitely give it some serious
| though..
| edoceo wrote:
| PR matters less these days but if you're going that route
| then maybe also pull Alexa, Ahrefs and Moz and the like (I've
| got a complete list somewhere)
| iampims wrote:
| This is neat. After browsing for several pages, I'm yet to find
| something that is a decent name.
|
| In a similar space, I really like https://park.io
| doh wrote:
| Surprising. I just purchased couple that I found there. My rule
| for a domain is that needs to be easy to pronounce, preferably
| it's not a real word, doesn't have many Google results for the
| name, doesn't contain w/v, i/y and h.
|
| So for instance snuno doesn't mean anything, 5 letters, easy to
| pronounce in all language, people don't get confused when you
| pronounce it. The name eventually becomes associated with
| whatever you put in.
|
| After I saw Mt.Gox taking off, I realized, that the name is
| challenge only initially. People will figure it out once they
| think there is value.
| pdxandi wrote:
| I've spent an embarrassing amount of time looking at domain
| names over the years. This is going to cost future me hours.
| Thanks for sharing!
| airstrike wrote:
| > I'm yet to find something that is a decent name
|
| If you agree "naming is hard", then most names are by
| definition pretty bad... At best, this list is random, and at
| worst it's the set of terrible names people gave up on and
| allowed to expire
| TheMask01 wrote:
| If anyone's wondering why the results started looking a tad more
| strange (and higher rate of unavailable domains on the list),
| it's because todays list was just processed over the course of
| the past. ~20min. Have some jobs spread out a little to be nice
| to the server and inconsistencies.
|
| For the next who knows maybe hour or so, from this minute
| actually, you'll probably notice a few more than average domains
| one the list are already taken. Don't worry i've got my best
| robot people on it
| zeveb wrote:
| a) Really awesomely cool!
|
| b) Kinda sad to read all those names and think that someone once
| thought, 'hey, this could be my baby.' Sure, I imagine a bunch of
| them were just hoovered up by domain squatters, but at least a
| few of them are failed sites, right? ... right?
| shahinrostami wrote:
| w.r.t. b), it looks like you can figure out which were
| legitimate sites using the "Insight" column!
| ObsoleteNerd wrote:
| Yeah a lot of them are very clearly failed projects and
| businesses and it's fascinating reading through them.
| DEADBEEFC0FFEE wrote:
| Certainly a bit sad. I cannot read those domains without
| imagining what the story behind them was.
|
| Justinandsam.com is just heartbreaking.
| andrefuchs wrote:
| Useful service, congrats on the launch. Do 4 character domains
| basically never drop or why is the minimum length 5?
| Jtsummers wrote:
| There's at least one 4-character domain in the results (easier
| to find when you set max to 4), `xuci.org`. So they do drop.
| a_t48 wrote:
| If you squint your...ears it almost sounds like "sushi.org".
| Not bad.
| eganist wrote:
| Thanks for this, found a diamond in the rough.
|
| Good on you for restricting people from sending "4" or less for
| the character count; I'd probably hide that too and use that for
| my own needs in your position, though it only raises the barrier
| from opportunistic searchers to people with a mild amount of
| curl/grep knowledge.
| TheMask01 wrote:
| I don't own a single one nore have tried but I understand many
| would. Honestly I did that 100% because they're simply always
| taken by bots on the spot. It'd be a waste of space on the
| site/cluttering the feeds. Our process is muchhhh slower around
| the clock as we check all domains and delete any no longer
| avail, again to keep the lists tidy, it'd only get everyone's
| hopes up just to have them let down. I can guarantee it
| henryfjordan wrote:
| If I did want a 4 letter domain, how would I get one? Is the
| best way to pony up a few grand for one? I plugged a few into
| a domain-name service and some were available for as little
| as $3k...
|
| 5 letters, however, $8.99!
| TheMask01 wrote:
| Ha. So here it goes I guess, I've been working on this pretty
| consistently for too long now (backend mainly).
|
| Inspiration for the project was based off one I made over half a
| decade ago. And I gratefully got recognized on HN for it! I saw
| (my) username that posted it, tried a few of my go-to password
| 's, and boom, I still got it :)
|
| Here was the thread for a trip down memory lane
| https://web.archive.org/web/20160322215116/https://news.ycom...
|
| And the new one is called DecentDrops.com - Would have totally
| used DomainInferno again but looks like some squatter had it, hey
| that's what I get for neglecting I guess. Still not sure why..
| Updated daily. Sorry I'm bad about rambling and don't want to do
| a (bigger) wall of text but if you've got questions shoot em!
| dang wrote:
| That thread still works!
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9025800.
|
| I didn't see any differences with the archive.org page. It
| would be interesting if there were some.
| shange wrote:
| R.I.P. cryingbitches.com, gone before I even knew her
| TheMask01 wrote:
| Oh now that's decent!! Which one of you picked it up. I'll pay
| top dollar!
| [deleted]
| xkuc wrote:
| Thanks for the service! I found a decent 4-letter that I can use
| as a pseudonym for political blogging now ;) Grade A!
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