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Ask HN: Subdomains you don't want your user to have

2 points by sandipagr ↗ HN
For my web app, each user get their subdomains. Are there any list of subdomains that you want to keep for yourself and not have your user to register?

Example. blog, mail, www (duh!) ...

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jcr
m.example.com --mobile

ns?.example.com --name servers

ftp.example.com --FTP

[dead] one010101
How about the obvious negative subdomains? ihate.example.com comes to mind.
mooism2
Anything listed in /etc/services.

All 2 letter subdomains (national subdomains), and thus all 1 letter subdomains for consistency.