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- Tried until I ran out of 'dissections' with zero results on known good domains..
It seems like it just matches a list of precomputed entries, but does no actual operation of the user input.
by seemaze - there s always a .com with some imaginationby seydor
- lots of good ones stillby bthornbury
- And if you find one as available, book it and pay it immediately.by sixtyj
- An impressively busy UI for such low information density.by Retr0id
- I went with
for my little NFT project
by agys - haha, that's one of the best web animation I've seen. Nice job. Love how interactive it isby dgellow
- These are fun but regular people have so much difficulty with them.
I once snagged a 4 letter .net address that was the last 3 letters of my first name with the first initial of my last name as the last character.
I thought I was so clever. I had the shortest email address you could ever imagine and it was basically just my first name and last initial. Amazing!
Nobody got it. It was confusing. I got blank stares and confused looks. People basically refused to email me at my new address.
Sometimes long is better, and sometimes unique and easy to spell is better, too.
Examples like Pinterest or Expedia are good demonstrators. They are easy to spell when you hear the word, and they were unique words that at the time were obviously going be available. Sure, Expedia is a very old domain, but if the company didn’t exist today I’d almost guarantee you a new company looking to buy the domain would be able to find it in 2026.
by Grombobulous - i have a 3-letter .onl domain that is the first 3 letters of my last name
I have actually needed to use it, because my cell provider (Visible) has absolutely moronic form validation that doesn't recognize a hyphen as a valid character in an email address, even though it very much is. (My main .net domain has a hyphen in it)
by ZPrimed - Do you get the same confused look when your email is @gmx.de or @free.fr or any other lesser known provider? I suppose you've never had this problem because you aren't using those providers, but many people do.by inigyou
- Ya, I have an .st domain with is <my-first-name>@<first-three-letters-of-last-name>.st and I've had a few people have a lot of trouble with it. With one, it took about 6 or 7 tries to explain it to him before I just took over and typed it for him. Most people do get it, though, and sometimes think it's neat.by sodapopcan
- Very true, I found a similar issue with vanity/hack domains too. Picked up https://jo.hn a couple of years ago and the confusion it causes isn't really worth the cool-factor most of the time!
They tend to really just be suitable as a supplementary domain for short links and the like (youtu.be, goo.gl, etc.)
by avunit - Thanks to Brexit, I lost my .eu domains. This really pissed me off.
Maybe it's a good thing we are all afraid to visit any other tld other than dotCom.
by doublerabbit - dot org is right there and is at least run by a non profit. The SAVE .ORG campaign succeeded in preventing private equity from buying it out. Thanks to EFF, Wikipedia, NPR, Greenpeace, the YMCA, and even the Girl Scouts!by culi
- You could've found an EU person to hold the domains for you btw.
Regardless, it's usually politically safest to put your domains under your own country's ccTLD. That way, you're exposed to one fewer country's dumb politics.
by inigyou - I'm surprised that "AI" right inside most search engines these days was not the final nail in the coffin of domain importance, and specifically .com
browsers hiding most of the URL also negated much of the importance and was a nail
QR codes on everything and all phones in everyone's hands all the time was another nail
You just don't want a scammy TLD but not even sure what those are these days anymore
by ck2 - by reticulates
- It's always struck me as odd that TLDs are not just, well, freely configurable? Domains have always been subject to so much artificial scarcity for seemingly no reason. Why can't a DNS resolver handle .whatever?by moffkalast
- Be wary of vanity TLDs and even some country codes, they may be available but once the renewal rolls around and you've invested time and effort into establishing a presence there, you may be in for a price shock.by SoftTalker
- "cod.ing" ... available!?
Someone just dropped their registration for that today!?
Namecheap...
Hurry...
Login, come on...
TOTP, uagh...
Come on, come on... register, register...
...
$39,000.00 !??!
"Premium" name?!
What is this garbage?
by echelon - You're also subject to US law on anything that isn't a ccTLD and even several ccTLDs.by inigyou