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Comment by tlrobinson | Hacker News Reader

The del.icio.us style domain names are neat for a personal site or something, but they're not very memorable (in terms of spelling and remembering where the dots are), and thus not good for a commercial site. Even Delicious ended up coughing up the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars for delicious.com.

Edit: also, this tool isn't very accurate, it reports lots of domains as available when they really aren't.

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Agree on the accuracy issue, tried 3 different domains, all showed as available and none were.

I have used instantdomainsearch.com in the past with some success for tld's, roughly similar idea but has been around for a long time.

Me too.

Just to test it out, I entered in my name (zain). It suggested http://za.in/ and said it was available. I was ecstatic!

But, sadly, no, it was wrong. "whois za.in" says NOT FOUND, but I can't find a single .in registrar who says it is available. Bummer.

I also used to think along this lines. But then i tried to remember when was it last that i had physically entered a domain name in the browser - rarely i do that! Mostly i get it from bookmarks or through web surfing links. So i feel the names are less important than the content at that name.

But personally i like "neat and clean" (i.e. dotless) names vs those force-segmented ones. Also dotless names have the advantage of browsers filling in for the www and .com !

I found http://wh.at is available, to register from GoDaddy - that says it's an invalid domain name. :(

g.com is available

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