We made this as part of a weekend hack / side-project. We originally thought that the only words left would be mega long or ones that noone would recognize but surprisingly there are some quite good ones!
As it stands, there are around 1.8k left.
Interestingly, since we showed people on Reddit yesterday, there have been around 100 domains that were in the list but are now taken.
Cool. Some of the words are very exotic, but then some are surprisingly common words. I wonder if there exists an index with a "commonality rating" that could be used to sort/weight the randomiser with, so that one could get more common words up first?
WordNet has this. You can see it in action here [1] but you have to enable "Show Frequency Counts" in the pulldown. It has frequency counts for each "sense" of a word, not just the word.
This isn't, no. It's based on/powered by our main project www.domcomp.com - a domain price comparison and availability checking tool. However, we are considering whether we can split some bits off to be opened sourced :)
Publish the full list somewhere maybe? It's trivial to set up a Node app to get all 1.8k unique words from /shortname/domain, so you are at risk of getting unintentionally ddosed this way.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 72.0 ms ] threadAs it stands, there are around 1.8k left.
Interestingly, since we showed people on Reddit yesterday, there have been around 100 domains that were in the list but are now taken.
Cool app
https://www.wordsapi.com/docs#frequency
[1] http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
https://gist.github.com/theycallmeswift/6e479d61b772543aa613
Please respect others' work. Writing a scraper nowadays is not cool any more!
Sounds like you might want to check out the FAQ for answer to your other question. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html