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xh208OP11y ago

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.

brador11y ago

Could we get a list on the site of those that are taken? Would be cool to see what people actually buy!

xh208OP11y ago

This is a great idea :) thanks

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nandreev11y ago

Very cool, some hilarious ones left. Kind of like the "land" no one wants.

xh208OP11y ago

Yeah. A side benefit of this is that I'm extending my vocabulary!

simonswords8211y ago

I just bought three new domains and now I feel dirty. Hope I don't get buyers remorse :)

Cool app

troels11y ago

Is it using a US-english dictionary or does it have both UK-en and US-en words?

uptown11y ago

What'd you find that you bought yourself?

theyCallMeSwift11y ago

For those that are curious, here's ~1400 of them:

https://gist.github.com/theycallmeswift/6e479d61b772543aa613

maxcellent11y ago

Did you just ddosed them to get the list? Why there is no down vote button here?

Please respect others' work. Writing a scraper nowadays is not cool any more!

theyCallMeSwift11y ago

Nope, they actually have a public API.

Sounds like you might want to check out the FAQ for answer to your other question. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

xh208OP11y ago

Considered putting in A mechanism to limit the number of words per person but decided not to. Oh well, its the Internet, what to do eh :)

limeyx11y ago

...and no one wants "benumbs.com" :)

droque11y ago

The majority of them seem to be verbs.

troels11y ago

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?

sehugg11y ago

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.

[1] http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

impostervt11y ago

Here's where I pimp my side-project, which has a frequency score for words.

https://www.wordsapi.com/docs#frequency

troels11y ago

Very nice. What did you base the data on? Some 3rd party source or did you compile stats from a corpus of random texts?

fencepost11y ago

I love that the first suggestion it made to me was "gangrening.com"

cabirum11y ago

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.

yifanlu11y ago

Can't believe teargassing.com isn't taken yet.

anoncoder11y ago

This rocks! There are still some great domain names. A huge time saver.

wavee11y ago

is this opensourced?

xh208OP11y ago

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 :)

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25 comments

xh208OP11y ago

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.

brador11y ago

Could we get a list on the site of those that are taken? Would be cool to see what people actually buy!

xh208OP11y ago

This is a great idea :) thanks

1 more reply

nandreev11y ago

Very cool, some hilarious ones left. Kind of like the "land" no one wants.

xh208OP11y ago

Yeah. A side benefit of this is that I'm extending my vocabulary!

simonswords8211y ago

I just bought three new domains and now I feel dirty. Hope I don't get buyers remorse :)

Cool app

troels11y ago

Is it using a US-english dictionary or does it have both UK-en and US-en words?

uptown11y ago

What'd you find that you bought yourself?

theyCallMeSwift11y ago

For those that are curious, here's ~1400 of them:

https://gist.github.com/theycallmeswift/6e479d61b772543aa613

maxcellent11y ago

Did you just ddosed them to get the list? Why there is no down vote button here?

Please respect others' work. Writing a scraper nowadays is not cool any more!

theyCallMeSwift11y ago

Nope, they actually have a public API.

Sounds like you might want to check out the FAQ for answer to your other question. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

xh208OP11y ago

Considered putting in A mechanism to limit the number of words per person but decided not to. Oh well, its the Internet, what to do eh :)

limeyx11y ago

...and no one wants "benumbs.com" :)

droque11y ago

The majority of them seem to be verbs.

troels11y ago

sehugg11y ago

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.

[1] http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

impostervt11y ago

Here's where I pimp my side-project, which has a frequency score for words.

https://www.wordsapi.com/docs#frequency

troels11y ago

Very nice. What did you base the data on? Some 3rd party source or did you compile stats from a corpus of random texts?

fencepost11y ago

I love that the first suggestion it made to me was "gangrening.com"

cabirum11y ago

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.

yifanlu11y ago

Can't believe teargassing.com isn't taken yet.

anoncoder11y ago

This rocks! There are still some great domain names. A huge time saver.

wavee11y ago

is this opensourced?

xh208OP11y ago

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