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thiele
Hey HN,

Over the weekend, I built Dictionary Domains to make it super easy to find unregistered {word}.{tld} domains for your next project.

There's some pretty great tools out there that help find domains: I really like Lean Domain Search and back in the day I used Bust A Name a ton. But really, I'm a huge fan of simple verb/noun/adjective domains. I'd happily compromise on the .com extension to get something clean and meaningful.

Here's some of my favorites from the site:

kaput.io proud.cc jud.ge measly.co quaint.io punch.cc closed.cc bubble.io stran.ge chilly.io rainy.io dama.ge puny.io quicke.st

Hopefully you find it helpful!

Kronopath
Pretty nice. A suggestion though: it would be nice to be able to search by synonyms or definition rather than just exact words. That way if you know you're searching for something to do with eg. "mail", you'd get a set of words that are (at least tangentially) related to it that you can choose from.
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reedlaw
I love it! I registered one of the domains with Namecheap for 5 years. Hope you get some commission from it.
jack57
This is an awesome, simple idea. There's something to be said about simplicity. I wish I had an idea like that!
jobnobber
A great idea. I bought three.

Also, thanks for not using GoDaddy. It's one of the reasons I decided to make some buys.

solutionyogi
I don't know if I should hate you or love you. I got an awesome domain even though I had decided last year that I will never buy a domain ever again.

Great project, well done.

officialjunk
What domains did you buy before publicizing this?
avoiceandname
Already found & bought a domain (& marked it as taken :D) Thanks for such an awesome site!
thiele
That's awesome! Now build cool stuff with your new name :)
justinlilly
The best part about this site is figuring out what exactly might be a good use for things like creepy.io :)
thiele
It's funny how product ideas pop up once you see a certain name.
corobo
This is the reason why I have over 30 domains :(

It used to be more, I let a lot of them expire over the last year

prawn
I find that can be a quick way to think up solutions without problems!
c0nfused
There really ought to be a contest like this. Who ever wins gets the domain
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matznerd
What about a hackathon or something where they give your team a product name and you have to build something fitting?
samuelhulick
What a great weekend project - thanks for putting this together!
eli
Man, I wrote a script to do this for .com names like 15 years ago. I probably should have bought a couple.
thiele
Ha, yeah, it'd be interesting to see which domains on there became valuable and/or successful companies.

After I made this I saw Andy Baio did a list back in 2002 too: http://waxy.org/projects/domains/

rguldener
This looks very nice, any chance you'll add per TLD filtering? Eg. only show me .com, .us and .io but not .ly Synonyms would also be great as others have mentioned

Edit: Ah I should have clicked the TLDs :)

Edit 2: And on the Desktop just noticed the filter button, sorry, that one is invisible when I view the site on my phone

thiele
There's a filter button there too where you can select the TLD you want to see.
jack57
Wouldn't it be nicer if the domain names were divided alphabetically into 26 labelled pages? Right now it's 29 and difficult to browse.
mattl
In the URL: words?utf8=✓

Nicely done.

maxmcd
This is default Rails form functionality.
borplk
can I ask what exactly that is doing? some kind of capability test for utf8?
mattl
Basically, if the GET variable returns a check/tick, then they support UTF-8. Otherwise, no.
munificent
This triggering a maddening desire to make some impulse purchases. Well done.
vonmoltke
I'm now up to 22 names owned thanks to this site. :P
Jack000
also a victim of op.. I'm up to 15, though I do plan on using all of them.
matznerd
If you only own 22, consider yourself lucky lol, I'm in way deeper.
thiele
It definitely triggers a 'Fear Of Missing Out' response.
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joelrunyon
DAA = Domain Addicts Anonymous.

There should be a support group.

jobnobber
Ha. So true.

DomainAddictsAnonymous.com is taken btw :(

metermaid
challen.ge is my favourite from the page; it'd be great for hackathons/competitions/any sort of challenging or educational app.
primitivesuave
This is like the holy grail for domain squatters - hopefully they don't read HN.

Also, mad props on the "domain hack" feature.

dsl
Ugh. HN jerks have already added them all to their carts on 101domains, so you can't check out.
schenecstasy
Yeah I was thinking this was a great gift to them too.
larrys
Actually people who are knowledgeable in the domain business do not waste time speculating with .me .io .cc .whatever because the market is so limited to resale. Chance of selling one of those is exceedingly slim.
ca98am79
Many .io and .me domains have sold for 5 figures. buy.me went for over $155,000. I have personally sold many for 4 figures.
hayksaakian
I couldn't figure out how to filter by .com

Are all .com dictionary words simply taken?

thiele
Yeah, legit .com dictionary words are all taken. You can sometimes find really obscure ones, but none of the ones on Dictionary Domains are available as .com.
emhart
Love it! Simple, clean and really useful. Do you plan to keep adding words as time goes on?
thiele
Yep, I plan on adding more words and some additional domain extensions. Follow me on twitter for updates: twitter.com/justinthiele
joelrunyon
Welp, you've already made me buy one of them.

Any chance you could do filtering based on some of them? For example, some of them you need to have a local presence to register.

Great site.

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dasil003
Posting this here is like bringing a bottle of bourbon to an AA meeting.
joelrunyon
I said something earlier like this, but this is a much better analogy.
lightyrs
Just bought rhyme.io. Thanks for the site!
kimburgess
Nice idea. New project domain purchased (and marked). Come at me weekend.
audiodude
When given the chance to register a domain for free, I chose 0-z-0.com. The idea was that it's a simple, generic domain. I now host things at something.0-z-0.com and if it becomes more than a weekend project I might migrate it to its own domain.
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JonnieCache
Sort by length brings up some fun results that nobody wants: Sore, Gamy, Lewd, Nosy, Pale, Damp, Dull and Glib. They sound like foul dwarves.

EDIT: it goes on for pages and pages. quite an alarming list of words. you could try and turn them into poetry but it might be a bit upsetting.

thiele
LUL, thanks for the bug report. I'll take a look!
JonnieCache
Awww, don't change it! At least add a button to put the wonky unloved words back in.
pdxmitch
Nice work. Pretty sure Bieber is going to snatch up all the Alleged domains and extensions.
kassner
Any chance to opensource this? Will be very useful for implementing in another languages and non-english countries.