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Show HN: Unregistered word.tld domain names for your project

by thiele on 1/29/14, 7:02 PM with 61 comments

  • by thiele on 1/29/14, 7:02 PM

    Hey 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!

  • by dasil003 on 1/29/14, 10:48 PM

    Posting this here is like bringing a bottle of bourbon to an AA meeting.

  • by JonnieCache on 1/30/14, 1:13 AM

    Sort 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.

  • by primitivesuave on 1/29/14, 8:42 PM

    This is like the holy grail for domain squatters - hopefully they don't read HN.

    Also, mad props on the "domain hack" feature.

  • by munificent on 1/29/14, 8:20 PM

    This triggering a maddening desire to make some impulse purchases. Well done.

  • by avoiceandname on 1/29/14, 7:07 PM

    Already found & bought a domain (& marked it as taken :D) Thanks for such an awesome site!

  • by jack57 on 1/29/14, 7:56 PM

    Wouldn't it be nicer if the domain names were divided alphabetically into 26 labelled pages? Right now it's 29 and difficult to browse.

  • by hayksaakian on 1/29/14, 8:50 PM

    I couldn't figure out how to filter by .com

    Are all .com dictionary words simply taken?

  • by eli on 1/29/14, 7:35 PM

    Man, I wrote a script to do this for .com names like 15 years ago. I probably should have bought a couple.

  • by samuelhulick on 1/29/14, 7:13 PM

    What a great weekend project - thanks for putting this together!

  • by metermaid on 1/29/14, 8:23 PM

    challen.ge is my favourite from the page; it'd be great for hackathons/competitions/any sort of challenging or educational app.

  • by rguldener on 1/29/14, 7:41 PM

    This 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

  • by justinlilly on 1/29/14, 7:08 PM

    The best part about this site is figuring out what exactly might be a good use for things like creepy.io :)

  • by audiodude on 1/29/14, 11:31 PM

    When 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.

  • by mattl on 1/29/14, 8:10 PM

    In the URL: words?utf8=✓

    Nicely done.

  • by emhart on 1/29/14, 9:23 PM

    Love it! Simple, clean and really useful. Do you plan to keep adding words as time goes on?

  • by joelrunyon on 1/29/14, 10:27 PM

    Welp, 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.

  • by lightyrs on 1/29/14, 11:05 PM

    Just bought rhyme.io. Thanks for the site!

  • by kassner on 1/31/14, 11:35 AM

    Any chance to opensource this? Will be very useful for implementing in another languages and non-english countries.

  • by cynical_slave on 1/30/14, 9:58 AM

    I find domai.nr quite useful and comfy:

    https://domai.nr

  • by pdxmitch on 1/30/14, 5:40 AM

    Nice work. Pretty sure Bieber is going to snatch up all the Alleged domains and extensions.

  • by kimburgess on 1/29/14, 11:09 PM

    Nice idea. New project domain purchased (and marked). Come at me weekend.

  • by arasmussen on 1/30/14, 12:30 AM

    No .com?