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0 pointspaxys3y ago0 comments

Well sure you can also run a random string generator and get a short .com TLD, but that's not the point.

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No 3 letter.com domain is available to register (all combinations are registered, can only be bought). 4 letter mixed numbers letters are sure available. I am not sure of 4 letters only is available. 5 letters only sure is available.

bombcar3y ago

I bought a three letter domain at one of the original TLDs for $3k or so, they can be surprisingly reasonable depending on your use case.

Kiro3y ago

Pretty sure all 4 and 5 letter .com domains have been taken since at least a decade.

anamexis3y ago

4 letter ones are all taken, but there are still 5 letter domains available. I wanted a short domain for personal use and bought xlmpq.com

nickstinemates3y ago

A fellow ascii art enjoyer :)

echelon3y ago

And very few of them will ever serve anything useful.

davchana3y ago

So many random 5 letter, letters only domains are available. If you add numbers & hypen to mix, it baloons to thousands.

ZainRiz3y ago

Today I realized how xkcd prob got it's name

dhosek3y ago

There’s a faq on this on the site (find it yourself). It was created as an unpronounceable “acronym” (although it doen’t stand for anything) and the domain came later when Randall was still an unknown. It’s old enough that a lot of “normal” domain names were still available, but the name itself was one of the jokes.

allknowingfrog3y ago

Possibly, although the official explanation is that it's "just a word with no phonetic pronunciation". There's a "What does XKCD stand for?" section on the About page. https://xkcd.com/about/

lIl-IIIl3y ago

Randall wanted a unique short string associated with all his work. That way he could Google "xkcd" and find everything he ever did online. I believe he had a script that generated all possible 4-letter combinations and filtered out ones with any search results, and settled on "xkcd". But he became a victim of his own success when the comic became so popular and "xkcd" is now synonymous with the comic.

Source: talk by Randall, might be this one but I'm not sure: https://youtu.be/zJOS0sV2a24.

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davchana3y ago

bombcar3y ago

I bought a three letter domain at one of the original TLDs for $3k or so, they can be surprisingly reasonable depending on your use case.

Kiro3y ago

Pretty sure all 4 and 5 letter .com domains have been taken since at least a decade.

anamexis3y ago

4 letter ones are all taken, but there are still 5 letter domains available. I wanted a short domain for personal use and bought xlmpq.com

nickstinemates3y ago

A fellow ascii art enjoyer :)

echelon3y ago

And very few of them will ever serve anything useful.

davchana3y ago

So many random 5 letter, letters only domains are available. If you add numbers & hypen to mix, it baloons to thousands.

ZainRiz3y ago

Today I realized how xkcd prob got it's name

dhosek3y ago

allknowingfrog3y ago

Possibly, although the official explanation is that it's "just a word with no phonetic pronunciation". There's a "What does XKCD stand for?" section on the About page. https://xkcd.com/about/

lIl-IIIl3y ago

Source: talk by Randall, might be this one but I'm not sure: https://youtu.be/zJOS0sV2a24.

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