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For the last few years I've been toying with a variety of techniques for finding available domain names. This is one of my more recent attempts that I thought would be useful to all of you on HN. I created a simple search and alphabetical lookup with pagination to be able to browse through these domains as easily as possible. I built the website search functionality yesterday, so it was quick and dirty (but hopefully the UI is clean enough).

Since the current listing is cached, the only way to tell if a domain is truly still available (and some other HN member hasn't picked it up), you need to click the "Test" button to run a new WHOIS test. If the domain is taken, it'll automatically be removed and you'll be informed. If not, you'll get a nice little success message with both purchase buttons.

I'd love any suggestions. Let us know if you find anything good :)

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>Let us know if you find anything good :)

I was surprised saalty.com wasn't taken. It sounds so damn cute. I just bought it on impulse because my heart melts at the drop of a hat for some dumb reason.

Now I have to draw something cute to put there, like a little deer licking a salt cube.

Holding you to this.

That reminds me: I need to do a "salt lick" t-shirt at some point. My condition is a salt wasting condition. People like me supposedly taste saltier than other people. I have joked to friends that when I am well enough to get a sex life again, I should do a quiet little survey and ask a few men if, in fact, I taste saltier than usual. Still toying with how to make the t-shirt not too nasty, on the theory that a kid might want one.

Is there more that can be done for your condition than simply eating a lot of salt?

I've done quite a lot more than simply eat more salt. However, no one really cares. And I'm just a tad more stressed than usual tonight. My health site is listed in my profile if you are curious.

Take care.

I'm already disappointed. I went to saalty.com and there was no deer. Iterate faster! MVP this sucker and get it launched! Get that deer into the cloud! And be sure to count the salt licks with a nosql store.

With a theme like this, at least the OP'll have password storage covered!

Here are some good domains, if any of you are considering a file sharing/locker or search site:

filean.com, fileea.com, filehe.com, fileou.com, findnt.com, findve.com, fineof.com

A random button would be nice, rather than simply alphabetical. Find 5 random 6-letter domain names. Helps with discovery if someone truly has no idea of what they want and are simply looking for inspiration.

This is pretty cool. The only suggestions I have are the obvious ones of finding search strings anywhere (not just the beginning), and including more domains (which I'm guessing means adding more bigrams).

Where did you get the list of domains? Does it include all six character ones, or just the ones made of the common bigrams?

The list is based off of about 30 or so high frequency bigrams. Based on people finding this useful, I'm going to go ahead and get a bit more creative in how I generate them to find new combinations.

Of particular interest is finding common 2-char beginnings and endings of words. It wouldn't be hard to implement and scan a dictionary, but if anyone has a direct link to these I'd really want to get these added (or create a separate page just for these).

I appreciate this is not a scalable way to handle requests but I was specifically looking for domains starting in "fl" and you had none. So if you think it's worthwhile, please add it :)

Maybe it would be interesting to have a way to sort the result by "score" so that the more "natural" results appear first? (The score should be a combination of the bigram frequencies, maybe the frequency of the full domain name in the bigram model.)

I didn't buy it, but I saw colert.com and thought it sounded like a pretty good company name. Reminds me of alert I'd imagine some kind of website monitoring service perhaps

As I looked through the list, I saw a whoooole lot of potential pharmaceutical company names. Made me laugh.

Love it, thanks. Need to be careful not to register too many domain names.

Could you add the combo 'ap' or even 'app', so we could find a good name for hosting apps?

Fun to play with!

One very small point - you might want to change "Courtesty of" to "Courtesy of" (unless it's deliberate).

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