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83 pointsmikkom40 comments

Be nice to merge it with a 2gram corpus sorted by frequency, so that word pairs that simply don't occur in English (like "autonomous frown", "voice glockenspiel", "harp speedboat") are less likely to be shown than words that might conceivably make sense.

Another idea might be to POS tag the words and only present verb noun combinations, but you'd have to play around a bit to see which parts of speech rendered the best domains.

Anyway, here are some nice sounding domains I've found with this tool:

historicalreading.com

brokencurrency.com

bagelmoon.com

sofacake.com

dancebrick.com

wholesalerreport.com

slimyslime.com (if you're a slime retailer, this is a perfect domain!)

and some not-so-good ones:

tramprugby.com (I would pay to see this)

aftershavejustice.com

beanslime.com

depressedtuesday.com (can we make this a national holiday?)

I'm going to implement a sorting algo later (based on bayesian probabilities) and word popularity/top lists. But that's later..

The domains listed are only noun-noun or adjective-noun combinations. I might add verbs later.

2gram corpus is not that easy to implement, but here is my implementation with POS and frequency sorting. http://buzzdomain.com

Nice!

Small typo on home page: 'When you _clik_ the Search button'

IMHO 2-gram corpus is very easy to implement, what do you find difficult with it?

I've done this before. You're right. The CPU intensive part is the word search itself. Building the combinations and finding adjacent words, which you've already done. The ngram piece is straightforward by comparison. Just compare the domain (with any hyphens removed) against a dictionary of concatenated ngrams. You'll have to veryify that any hyphens occur on word breaks afterwards, but it's a small price to pay for the simplicity of a string compare (or key lookup). You will probably want to load all of your ngram dictionaries into memory, though, or the search will be horribly slow.

I have already done this, but it is difficult to squeeze the running algorithm memory. The current POS solution uses only 400MB memory. Also, 2grams are not that good as collocations.

gradualunderpants.com was among the first I saw on the frontpage...

> and some not-so-good ones:

> tramprugby.com (I would pay to see this)

Sounds like a good idea!

That's interesting, because I think word pairs that simply don't occur in English could be a feature also. Maybe an on-off switch. I kind of like the domain voiceglockenspiel. Although several of your listed nice-sounding domains also seem to be pairs that simply don't occur in English as well?

Awesome! Definitely some good and funny domain name suggestions in there.

One thing though: When searching for a word, such as "reed", it discovers domains that have two different words that spell "reed" when placed together such as "TreeDaisy.com". For the example "reed", I also get a lot of results like "AgreedSummer.com" where the word I'm searching for makes up a different, unrelated word.

Good job! I am bookmarking this site. Thank you.

Besides "reed" here's another example "fee". It gives me feel and feet and even coffee. I'd also like to search for a specific word and not part of other words.

Feedback: It is a little bit frustrating being able to see only 10 per page. It makes me think about scrapping the site for the keywords that I am interested.

Good job. Some cool domains there, added to tools bookmark.

Thanks, I'll see how the domain list could be improved.

edit: It seems someone else decided to scrape too, please don't.

Note that currently the word list is not that big (~2400 nouns), we'll be adding more based on search terms so if the search gives you empty page you might want to try again in few days.

Is there a way to anchor searches, so I can find names that start or end with a particular string?

At the moment no. The search matches words, not full domains.

edit: Now you can use suffix or prefix searches by using prefix* or *suffix

For a moment I thought this service was the same as: http://searchdns.netcraft.com/

But then I realized it was the exact opposite.

The results for searching for "fucking" are hilarious .

This is pretty cool. My preferred tool is http://leandomainsearch.com/

I like the site. If a search returns no results you might want to alert the user of this (i.e. 'no results found' or something similar). I couldn't tell if it just wasn't loading or if my search actually didn't get any matches.

Good point, thanks.

Not sure how the search works. I searched for 'amortize', 'amortization' etc. because I am looking to host a script that generates amortization schedule. Nothing returned.

The word list is quite small at the moment, there are no amortize or amortization words yet.

I'll probably add custom word search later.

Okay!

How are you determining which domain names are available?

Also, you may want to add some sort of contact feature for people to leave suggestions.

idea for a realllllly naive ranking metric...

Take the words for the domain, so "airport smell" for airportsmell.com (yes that was one of the random domains heh). Then do a search on Google for the phrase, and fetch the number of results as a 'score'.

I'd be interested to see if this can pluck out "better" names from the pile.

It's quite difficult to use because it takes ~10 seconds to refresh the list. It's hard to get into a rhythm.

Sorry about that, we are having some some heavy traffic right now.

Any chance to release the source code to people reuse this using another languages? I'm kinda interested.

For the search you should add a dropdown: domain begins with keyword, domain ends with keyword & either

You can use * in a search to fine tune the results. Also, the length parameter in the URL is editable.

Makes sense, honestly though I'm a fairly tech savvy dude and I didn't realize this at first. Probably more of a UX debate than anything else.

Amazed by the quality of some of the names, knownhell.com for instance.

Not as amazed by others, like stepbrotherdrizzle.com.

Slightly OT, but the randomly generated names would make fantastic names for bands.

Party game: view this site, posit that each link is to a band's website, and debate what genre of music they play.

A lot of the names have given me great business ideas.

I definitely going to buy livingstepgrandmother.com

Hmm... underpantsniece.com...

www.racialmayonnaise.com

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