Ask: The hunt for good domain names

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2367237

by joshu • 15 years ago

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Anyone got some good domain names to sell? I am tearing my hair out to get something I really like.

pinko• 15 years ago

Uh... can you be any more specific, or does the meaning not matter at all?

joshu4• 15 years ago

I was hoping for something I could use as a brand, rather than something functional-sounding.

We're building social software to help people get things done. It's pretty widely interpretable.

dave1619• 15 years ago

What's your budget?

joshu4• 15 years ago

We can pay anything reasonable, but I'll just go for some other name rather than overpay.

That is to say: it depends on how awesome it is.

phlux• 15 years ago

I am pretty good at this... but can you give me more info on what your doing?

Here are some domains I came up with and am in various states of doing stuff with some of them...

BROWSETHROUGH.ME

BROWSETHROUGH.US

CHIRPCHAT.COM

CIRROSTRAT.US

CONFERO.US

DICIPUL.US

DOCTRIN.US

DOTSTAT.US

DROIDOC.COM

FLIGHTR.COM

IMBUED.US

MEDSTAT.US

MEDSTRAT.US

REPLET.US

SECUT.US

TEXTOO.US

TEXTUO.US

THELIFEWIKI.COM

TIMESTAT.US

VOLITICAL.ORG

WHATSTAT.US

JOTBOX.ME

iworkforthem• 15 years ago

I am letting go - nameego.com and wearstartup.com @ $5 each.

staunch• 15 years ago

I bought bawk.com recently but probably will use another one as it turns out. I'd sell it to you for what it cost me because I'm a fan. I'll email you details if you like it.

bmelton• 15 years ago

If that's still available, I'd gladly take it off your hands.

vipivip• 15 years ago

DailySter.com

joshu4• 15 years ago

http://burri.to/~joshua/fut.html

i should update this old thing

fourstar• 15 years ago

Snerk.com?

T2P• 15 years ago

I make it a point not to buy a domain I don't have a use for. There has been ~50-75 domains I checked in the last month that were nothing but godaddy parked domain pages. That being said, I usually just pick some words and phrases I like, and hit the thesaurus. If you're persistent and lucky, you'll hit a good+available .com

revorad2• 15 years ago

I have a few although I'm not sure they would be good for you. If you can tell me what sort of domain name you want (some theme, keywords etc) I can find good names which are available.

Trust me, I'm really good at this.

joshu4• 15 years ago

I actually built something to generate nice word-sounding nonwords and found hundreds of interesting domains. Maybe i should build a product out of that.

fakelvis2• 15 years ago

Like Wordoid? http://wordoid.com/

It can occasionally come up with some gems and is one of the three tools I use when trying to find available domains (the others being http://domai.nr/ and http://impossibility.org/)

jqueryin• 15 years ago

I generally perform a mass whois search with a bunch of keyword combinations and add some prefixes and suffixes for popular endings like LY, ER, ED, S, R, etc. I created a pretty simple PHP script for doing this which I have since made drastic improvements to, but this should get you started:

http://www.jqueryin.com/2010/04/12/finding-available-domains...

The whole thing stores to a file as well as uses a couple different WHOIS servers to avoid you getting temporarily banned by randomly picking one.

fakelvis2• 15 years ago

I knew there was a previous, related discussion.

HN Domain Exchange: Add your unused domains http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794289

haploid• 15 years ago

We got our domain names by approaching the registrant and making an offer.

There are plenty of domain names that are not listed on the ripoff domain name sales sites.

Find something you like and make an offer.

biggs83• 15 years ago

I recently bought kidzys.com

darrennix• 15 years ago

I once wrote a script to crawl the entire US dictionary for words that hadn't already been registered.

Anybody dying to own limbate.com or vesuviate.com?

revorad2• 15 years ago

Emailed contact@tastylabs with some names which are available.

keiferski• 15 years ago

I'm trying to sell a number of domains. Take a look and see if you like any. https://www.sedo.co.uk/search/searchresult.php4?showportfoli...

Thanks!

myearwood• 15 years ago

Webstagram.com

check my profile for my email address

pbj• 15 years ago

I'm looking to get rid of curvd.com, labld.com, velvt.com, boostd.com, and remoteli.com

Email: gs@bouncr.com

Ask: The hunt for good domain names

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