When I was younger I used to snap up domain names for every little idea I had. I executed on less than 1% of those ideas and ended up letting the domain expire 1-2 years later when I could finally admit to myself I was never going to pursue it. Literally hundreds of dollars flushed down the toilet all to get a temporary rush.

I know that I have issues with thinking "spending money" === "making progress" (be it on home improvement projects or web apps) and I know I'm not alone. If all you need is a domain to launch your product then go ahead and start looking, otherwise it's just a dopamine distraction.

I am 71 years old and I am still do this. Good for you stopping!

Concerning the article: a clever idea but I think it is better manually thinking of words that match your idea and searching for similar free domain names - that doesn’t take much time.

Granted, I don't believe it was an explicit choice to have a "verbale" brand-name.

But you (and many others in this thread) are right that names often don't matter that much. A better product will normally win regardless of the name, and once it does it's name will become "normalized". Duckduckgo might be such an example.. terrible name (IMO), yet respected by many as a Google-alternative.

Your product likely won't fail because of a bad name, but it doesn't hurt to have a good one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex#History

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol#Etymology

That was wrong in 2015 and it is wrong now.

What is seen as validation to users in Europe is different to North America is different to Asia. You can run a whole business in a group chat back then, and North America is just catching on to that, barely moving off of the concept of a .com presence and being okay that other TLD's are good enough too. When you don't even need a website.

Do the thing that makes revenue.

At this point its simple to me: if you are relying on an audience that instinctively types .com or if you think you need a .com for a search result or ad campaign, that's what you're doing wrong. Like, are you intentionally selling to pensioners? Is that the audience you want? People that had the same 30 years as you did to figure out to use a computer but made 30 years of excuses instead?

even if you succeed with appthatslaps.millennial, you're still going to redirect appthatslaps.com to it

unless you specifically have targeted and proven that an audience is going to bring value to you, and they use .com and search engines to find you, then there is no reason to cater to these luddite and elderly people. Its a deprecated assumption only relevant to deprecated people.

Spending money on trivialities is not how you project strength. If your business is so fragile it rests on the reputation of its TLD, you are already weak.

That being said, I also spend many (good hours) dreaming away while buying all sorts of domain names for my fictitious startups. I found that when using the startup niche as suffix or prefix, the domain is sometimes available. Had plenty of luck buying "git-what-ever".com domains, like git18n.com (though I am not sure how clever that naming really is).

Step 2: Make billions.

Step 3: Buy hotdogs.com with your massive amounts of VC funds^W^Wcash.

This is what Facebook (thefacebook.com), Dropbox (getdropbox.com), etc did.

Counterpoint 2: Domain scalpers will demand ridiculous prices if they believe that you are affiliated with a similar-sounding domain or company.

> Domain scalpers will demand ridiculous prices if they believe that you are affiliated with a similar-sounding domain or company

Anyone sitting on steam.com right now, thinking that Valve is more likely to buy it tomorrow than they are today is delusional. Domain names and TLDs are becoming less relevant day by day and especially with Valve/Steam's computer savvy, gamer userbase, I don't think they really need steam.com. It could be helpful but if they've already decided they don't want it today then they probably won't change their minds tomorrow.

Ever since URL bars defaulted to a web search instead of just adding www.com to the word the value of a one word dot com has dropped.

Valve : Steam : steampowered.com

Stardock : Impulse : impulsedriven.com

[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/compaq-buys-...

Ha! The current owners still have altavista.digital.com - it has some history thing.

> Literally hundreds of dollars flushed down the toilet all to get a temporary rush.

Is that really so bad? We pay hundreds of dollars for temporary rushes all the time.

I totally agree, you can always "upgrade" later to a better, shorter, or more appropriate domain later. The TLD doesn't matter, either. The only potential exception to this would be if you're building something "local", whereas you'd want to get the ccTLD domain if you're targeting users in one particular country.

A better example of a bad name might be Ycombinator. It's not immediately obvious what it means, and if you say it aloud it sounds like a question. Doesn't seem to matter much if you're successful enough though.

Now it's https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

It's never been wordle.com (or even at any TLD), and despite that:

> Over 300,000 people played Wordle on January 2, 2022, up from 90 players on November 1, 2021, a figure that rose to over 2 million a week later. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordle#Rise_in_popularity

I have a couple of fairly high value domains I've kept I'm interested in selling, but there isn't a great market I've found for this instead of letting them go?

For example these domains should be available wink wink: editormag.com geekyglossary.com infiniteiterator.com infographics365.com minutequestions.com museumology.com onlinehistorian.com webdesigndaily.com donateyourcomputerpower.com lazysites.com scorchingearth.com thechronoscope.com 24hourdigitalclock.com adfunkr.com aircontroltower.com aracina.com artistreferences.com athletelite.com askaboutamerica.com audiofeedr.com australers.com babysnooker.com beercounting.com bipabit.com bonfirekids.com bookinthebag.com cactusportal.com californiculture.com cheerfulservices.com complimentopia.com crocotin.com dreadpirateradio.com egoarbitrage.com firsttimebuyeralert.com gardenomat.com gigaspeakers.com hipsterian.com kateke.com messingwithyourmind.com myfitnessdoctor.com mypassword123.com orgasmatron5000.com panonyx.com propmakerz.com ricefactor.com thrillerdomains.com ulugulu.com

My family once manufactured a sex toy that was popular enough for someone to quit their job, so that brought back memories. Sadly the popularity dried up when their YouTube video stopped being recommended as much.

It was a real DaVinci-workshop type operation. I’m still amazed how much logistics went into it. Also art ability and sculpting. You have to be able to make molds, which are the inverse of the shape you want to cast. It’s really difficult.

Your description wasn’t far off, by the way! Thanks for the laugh.

  > Getting the shape right was the hardest part, since if you think about
  > how to mold something like that you’ll run into a bunch of problems.

How pliable is the silicone bag? Human women and men come in a variety of interface shapes yet it usually works out. Could different size bags be manufactured?

I wasn't involved directly, so unfortunately this is a game of telephone. This was also back in 2012 through 2015, so it's been some time. But here's my understanding of it.

Suppose the problem is to make a silicone bag that you can fill with warm water. That wouldn't be easy, but it'd be much easier.

To make something like that out of silicone, you have to pour some material into a mold, and let it sit. (I think the material was called Dragon Skin, but I'm not sure.) Think of it like cooking pancakes: You could imagine pouring this silicone into a frying pan and letting it sit, and you'd end up with a flat disc of silicone. So to make a bag, you'd want it to be a bowl. But of course if you pour it into a bowl, you'll end up with a spherical-ish disc of silicone that's flat on top, because it all pools to the bottom.

So your next attempt might be to put one bowl into another bowl, and then pour the silicone between the two bowls. That way the top bowl fixes the problem of it coming out like a flat disc. The silicone is sandwiched between the two bowls, and so you end up getting a shape that looks like the bowl on the bottom. Progress! That's closer to something that can hold water.

(Someone just told me that the shape wasn't actually the hardest part. The hardest part was materials. Dragon Skin was just one component. She said it was for the spine, whatever that means. But it wasn't the primary material, which needed to feel right and be easy to work with. I'll just note that here and continue on where I left off above. Basically, it needs to feel like skin, not rubber.)

But to get something that can actually hold water, you need it to be something closer to a flask shape. You could imagine a bowling ball inside another, smaller bowling ball, and then pouring the silicone inbetween the two and letting it sit.

Question: How do you get the silicone out? The silicone is now wrapped around the inner bowling ball. Hmm.

Once you solve all of those problems, then you start to focus on the dynamics of man-woman interaction and anatomy. That requires a mold which you can shape very precisely. I believe they ended up sculpting the molds out of clay, then turning it into something stronger through a process I don't understand.

To get the silicone out of the damn molds, they needed to invent a whole contraption that was like a giant lever. It would hook onto the inner mold and pull real hard on it, and pop! The whole thing comes out. It'd be totally impossible to pull it out with your bare hands.

Then you run into problems like, there are bubbles in the material, so this needs to be done inside a vacuum chamber to get all the bubbles out.

Finally there's the whole problem of putting a bow on it and making it look nice. You need packaging, a manual, and a reliable velcro strap that won't leak water. It needs to look professional. And all of this needs to be scalable so that when you suddenly get 200 orders because your vagina hot water bag went viral, you can fulfill those orders in a reasonable timeframe and get paid.

There's a bunch of funny stories from that era. The postal delivery people got super curious about what we were up to. (At this point they'd moved into an actual building, not the family house.) One day he found an excuse to come in, strutting around with a big smirk on his face. Then next time they went to drop off the packages for delivery at the post office, the lady there was like oh, you're the people that make the sex toys! They were like yeahhh, that's us.

It was a very interesting experience. It's a shame the business ended up folding due to lack of financing for all the production issues.

It’s actually fascinating that there still aren’t any products like that on the market. The water is what makes it feel real. Or at least a lot nicer than a fleshlight.

The staff all strike a pose and shout "The Aristocrats!!!"

It's unfortunate it didn't work out, but that's life. They regretted leaving their job and ended up losing the family house, but they recovered after a time. They're now in a job they like renting a house they like.

The molds were the heart and soul of the project, since they were the only irreplaceable component. They ended up throwing those into a dumpster. As a final twist, a family friend happened to be working at the trash center and spotted the molds as they were coming through. So even when they were trying to get rid of it like it was a monkey's paw, it still didn't go out without being noticed one last time.

One of ya'll should try your hand at it. As with programming, the problems are tough but solvable (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31667798) and as far as I know there's still nothing like it on the market, with plenty of demand.

At one point they were selling multiple color varieties, and people would buy all three colors. I asked if there was any other difference, and he said nope, just color added via dye. So there's a real opportunity for an enterprising sculptor that happens to be reading this.

(I don't know much else and I do ML nowadays, so good luck! But feel free to DM for advice I guess. https://www.smooth-on.com/product-line/dragon-skin/ was part of the materials they used, but apparently it was too rigid for the skin. It was for internal support.)

Maybe someone finds a name for their blog/project/something.

This is the problem, not the solution.

I would like to know how you came up with these, they're pretty good.

This is something that, to my great shame, I've always struggled with. Any recommendations for improving in this area?

Step 0: Get yourself in front of a paper or whiteboard. Eliminate distractions.

Step 1: Get all of the BS out of your head. Whatever comes out. Do not try to discuss, assess, etc., just get it out of your head.

Step 2: Take a step back and start assessing. Is there anything valuable? What if you pair things together?

I heard people applying this to ideate on a new start-up, brand, domain name, etc.

Requesting a domain name just in case: would love a domain name for a side project:

It will allow users to list what they own (maybe a photo or video, idk yet), and they'll be able to consult it, but other people can also check what they have.

breakingandentering.com or ilovereplacingmybrokenwindows.com or anentirecatalogueoffreestufftosteal.com?

What would be the purpose of your side project? I'm very confused by it. Not trying to be disrespectful, but it just sounds like an easy way to case a home for a burglary.

I have over a hundred board and card games... Total value on resell market is not that great (especially factoring the value per trip into the house, and relative low value per cubic foot of storage it claims in your car/van)... but having such a list outside google sheets would be helpful.. tells people what we already have if they want to gift items, could have running discussions on games, etc.

  - collectiblesquare.com
  - mystuffpage.com
  - sellsomecrap.com

Yoink, thank you. Seems perfect for my new email.

How is your day today? Hope it's good. Sorry to inform you that your website orgasmatron5000.com is highly inactive on top search engines like Google, yahoo, Bing, etc.

That was one obscure in-joke...

Nothing wrong with the writer of this post. I think this is a rational behavior that should be considered "expected". Whoever designed domain name registration/ownership model is to blame for failing to create a system which can efficiently give right domain names to people who actually need them and can use them for good (aka actually hosting businesses or contents instead of scalping).

This guy (https://medium.com/@amd_2793/my-million-dollar-domain-hobby-...) actually used Google's rankings of domain value from .app to then squat domains on two other flat priced TLDs - io and ai!

Not to mention the country restricted ones that you can only get if you're a resident, like bruh.

That said, part of the issue you flag is just perception. It's like going with a financial services firm that has a Wall Street or "Fifth Avenue" address in New York City versus a firm that has an address in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Both might be fine but we often attach significance to an address (even if its just a mailbox).

To your last point, I think its ultimately good that (many) Country restricted TLDs have geographic restrictions.

Also: if you take the .org and the .com is already in use, be ready to have the name taken off you if they get successful, or for some of your users to mistakenly go to the wrong place. To avoid one of those things happening later if the .com is available now you could buy both, but then the availability of the .com becomes the deciding factor again not the .org and you are paying for two domains.

"Human-readable domains should not be the sole province of the rich! Sign the petition at, *sigh*, c12a:d1e0:ae77:dff5:2260:c017:26a9:b447"

thirty.ai topsy.ai hierarch.ai bisect.ai branching.ai saline.ai spume.ai cadr.ai

I'm sure using the dictionary method you could find a ton more.

https://www.quora.com/Does-Quora-come-from-the-plural-versio...

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=%22Quora+...

Lexical gap refers to potential words that, with regards to the language morphology or semantic rules, could have been part of the language.

I think it's systematic gap that might apply to some of the domains you're squatting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_gap

Now dead.

If you just check once a year, you likely won't find a good one. But if you check almost daily for years, you will eventually strike gold.

The one issue I did have was buying a domain on Namecheap auctions only to find it had been used very aggressively by spammers before going to auction. It made me think of the recent top HN post about how you could push a suspect domain to someone within a registrar and then implicate them without their knowledge. The Namecheap auction system happily let me buy the domain, but then as soon as it was in my account it got suspended and I got various emails from their security team about how many blocklists it was on and how I'd have to submit extensive documentation to get it unsuspended etc. Thankfully the support was helpful and now I check domains more thoroughly before I buy them...

ruby -e "puts File.read('/tmp/com.txt').scan(/^[^.]+/).uniq"

Personally I almost never use any of the standard Unix tools like `awk` etc. since an equivalent Ruby script is almost always shorter and easier to write. (There are exceptions of course; and in really simple cases the standard tools will obviously still win.)

I think it's a shame that Ruby never really got popular as a general purpose scripting language, since it has that nice property that it's often as short as Perl while still being readable.

The first command changes all the time so by using 'cat' those blocks remain reusable, everything will use the piped input that cat sends if there is no preceding program, rather than to have to insert < somefile in the middle of the first command.

It's clearer - the structure indicates right at the front what it is going to do, namely read a file and pass it through a pipeline. There is no need to read ahead to find out what the source material is.

It's safer - "cat" is a read-only operation, once you've written that command up-front there is no longer a risk of overwriting the original file with a typo in the rest of the pipeline.

It's simpler to construct and nicely orthogonal to the rest of the pipeline - you can write the "cat" and then season the rest to taste (as you suggested).

I will occasionally remove cat from a very heavily-used loop, but as a default style it's fine.

I only found this out recently, but this works perfectly fine:

$ < /some/file awk ...

You're not wrong though, where cat improves readability there's no harm in using it.

With zsh you can prevent such accidents by "setopt NO_CLOBBER"

The result is that if you "foo > bar" and "bar" exists, zsh will refuse to overwrite "bar" and give you an error: "zsh: file exists: bar"

This makes constructs such "foo < bar > baz" perfectly safe, because accidentally typing "foo > bar > baz" will error out when "bar" (or "baz") already exists.

(PS: if you want to force zsh to overwrite the file even when NO_CLOBBER is set you can "foo >| bar")

Zsh stops redirection errors, it won't help even if cat is in the front.

Can you give an example? I don't know what you mean.

"Zsh stops redirection errors"

Which is what the post I was answering to was complaining about, wasn't it?

"it won't help even if cat is in the front"

Why not? "cat > foo" will error out if "foo" exists and NO_CLOBBER is set.

> Can you give an example? I don't know what you mean.

Sure. The first line below is dangerous no matter what zsh does to save you from yourself. The second line is safe no matter which shell you are using, and no matter what other commands are in the pipeline:

    sed $SEDOPTIONS "s/$SEARCHTERM/$REPLACEMENT/g" $FILENAME

    cat $FILENAME | sed $SEDOPTIONS "s/$SEARCHTERM/$REPLACEMENT/g"

> Which is what the post I was answering to was complaining about, wasn't it?

That's not how I interpreted "a typo in the rest of the pipeline." Sure, the typo could be a redirection. It could also accidentally set $SEDOPTIONS in the example above to include the '-i' flag.

>> "it won't help even if cat is in the front"

> Why not? "cat > foo" will error out if "foo" exists and NO_CLOBBER is set.

Yes, "cat > foo" will error out, but "cat $FILENAME | sed -i "s/a/b/g" $FILENAME" won't.

But, in your own example you have a useless use of cat:

  cat $FILENAME | sed $SEDOPTIONS "s/$SEARCHTERM/$REPLACEMENT/g"

  sed $SEDOPTIONS "s/$SEARCHTERM/$REPLACEMENT/g" < $FILENAME

With the useless use of cat, that is no longer possible even if there is a typo in the SEDOPTIONS.

Don't even need zsh for this; "set -C" will do the same in any POSIX shell. >| is also in POSIX. csh supports it as well.

    < /tmp/com.txt awk ...

    cat myfile.txt                   # check the file because I'm not even sure that's the correct name
    cat myfile.txt | awk blablabla   # no I didn't forget awk syntax, I swear

Even with "ctrl-a alt-d < alt-f alt-f ctrl-d ctrl-d ctrl-e" that replaces cat with < and removes the pipe, which any emacs user can pull off in it's sleep

I don't care if people use "cat" or "<" and the whole "useless use of cat" is stupid >99% of the time, but I've gotten in to the habit of using <file as it's shorter to type ("<file cmd" vs. "cat file | cmd").

Using cat for first look is usually looking for trouble if the file is huge or some binary file.

    <somefile awk ... | ...

In zsh you can even do just `<somefile` to print it (equivalent to `cat somefile`, very useful for reading files into variables) although in bash that appears to do nothing.

    cat /tmp/com.txt | awk '{ print substr($1, 1, length($1) -5) }' | uniq > domains.txt

    awk '{ print substr($1, 1, length($1) -5) }' /tmp/com.txt | uniq > domains.txt

Do you have any write up on its tech stack?

https://il.godaddy.com/en/domainsearch/find?checkAvail=1&tms...

However, I did notice the flash of something else loading and a redirect, so I hit the browser's back button and this is where it took me:

https://instantdomainsearch.com/?q=led+lighting

Something on that page is causing an immediate redirect to Godaddy.

I just tested on Google Chrome and had slightly different results. Instead of a redirect, the Godaddy page opened in a new tab (which was focused) yet the instantdomainsearch.com page remained in another tab.

Please consider creating an API with possibly a free tier. Right now I have to use godaddy api and it's so darn slow (plus I don't like using godaddy for many of the reasons for which they are so infamous).

A url in the domain search took me to a purchase page for $99/yr. I see the same domain on Hover for $14.... Are you bundling a bunch of additional services or something?

Interestingly, among those terms are:

> 1.3. not to use this Data, nor permit this Data to be used for any marketing purposes whatsoever.

I think the intent is to prevent the data being used for bulk mailing, but there's another section, 1.1 that specifically bans this. Choosing a domain name for a business is arguably marketing, so it seems that a close reading would disallow this.

I mean, of course, this is all unenforceable BS anyway. I'm surprised that someone hasn't gone ahead and taken this data and put it up on github or something; it all feels very theatrical.

It would be out of date the minute you post it.

Also does anyone know how to get a shady domain parking service to give up on a domain they’ve been holding for decades? I’m actually happy to pay 500 but not thousands and it’s not even a domain that a company or commercial interest would want to purchase.

I do, at least the first letters until the browser completes the rest.

And if no one types domains, why do you need a short domain name anyway?

Bad idea. The owner of the corresponding domain without hyphens might steal your visitors.

It wasn't a big deal, but I was very young, and I had a very red head.

Only as long as you don't plan to offer e-mail under that domain.

Some country codes are happy to have unrelated users, and some are not. .ninja was polluted by spammers so fast that many email servers just drop the entire TLD on sight. If most of your users speak something other than English, you might find any number of good words going unused.

I own currency-calc.com, which I find even better than the non hypen version of the name name.

I think for generic name domains are fantastic, but maybe not for a brand.

They might come back to you in a few months with a better offer. Or they might not, but it has worked for me two times.

That will cost you a few thousand dollars if you are not lucky, which you are not if you need to use a hyphen

But a renewal price for 50$/year for a business doesn't matter.

Could one make a webservice based on the data?

Edit to clarify: I'm envisioning a open source service that uses an in-browser sqlite database [1] so you don't have to worry about a predatory middle party reserving the domains you searched for.

[1] https://sql.js.org/#/

I edited my comment to clarify what I envisioned.

a) which of those available names are already trademarked and in which industrial classification [1]. I am amazed at the number of LIVE trademarks that have no registered domain (or worse the registered domain is not held by the trademark registrant).

b) which of those available names has the lowest search engine competition and/or the highest organic search traffic [2]

Also, stripping off the top level domain (TLD) during the search process means one does not find good/great available domain names that may be available on alternative TLD's (that are also not trademarked etc).

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search

[2] https://ads.google.com/intl/en_au/home/tools/keyword-planner...

[1] http://www.bustaname.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmhSgMXwUQY

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQYaUkNxT7A

A while back I tied together this DNS zone + live false positive check into a website (for all TLDs and with price info):

https://domain.garden

AWS credits are still paying for this, so feel free to use it!

martianpenguins.com

sallylabs.com

mountainmondays.com

bottlesound.com

Meaningless but all available. Turn those 2 minutes into 2 hours and you'll turn up a gem.

A few methods -

- Take a common surname suffix and add a new prefix to it - Make up something that sounds vaguely Japanese, Scandinavian, Spanish etc and you pretty much always find something available - Take a word that already exists and change (or add) one or two letters

Admittedly the results of the above can border on the ludicrous but the idea is to come up with enough names to eliminate those.

Why do they come with a dictionary of words?

    words is a standard file on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and is simply a newline-delimited list of dictionary words. It is used, for instance, by spell-checking programs. The words file is usually stored in /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words.

    $ apt-cache search 'words for /usr/share/dict' | sed -e 's/^[^ ]* - //; s/ dictionary words.*//' | sort -u
    American English
    British English
    Bulgarian
    Canadian English
    Catalan
    Esperanto
    French
    German medical
    Irish (Gaeilge)
    Italian
    Manx Gaelic
    Polish
    Spanish
    Swedish
    Ukrainian

  $ grep-aptavail -wF Provides wordlist -s Package,Description | tbl-dctrl 
  +===================+=======================================================+
  | Package           | Description                                           |
  +-------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
  | wbulgarian        | Bulgarian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict        |
  | wbrazilian        | Brazilian Portuguese wordlist                         |
  | wdanish           | The Comprehensive Danish Dictionary (DSDO) - wordlist |
  | wdutch            | list of Dutch words                                   |
  | wesperanto        | Esperanto dictionary words for /usr/share/dict        |
  | wogerman          | Traditional German wordlist                           |
  | wngerman          | New German orthography wordlist                       |
  | wswiss            | Swiss (German) orthography wordlist                   |
  | wpolish           | Polish dictionary words for /usr/share/dict           |
  | wfaroese          | Faroese dictionary / wordlist                         |
  | wgalician-minimos | Wordlist for Galician (minimos)                       |
  | wukrainian        | Ukrainian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict        |
  | wportuguese       | European Portuguese wordlist                          |
  | wgerman-medical   | German medical dictionary words for /usr/share/dict   |
  | miscfiles         | Dictionaries and other interesting files              |
  | wnorwegian        | Norwegian word list                                   |
  | wamerican         | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wamerican-huge    | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wamerican-insane  | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wamerican-large   | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wamerican-small   | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wbritish          | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict  |
  | wbritish-huge     | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict  |
  | wbritish-insane   | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict  |
  | wbritish-large    | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict  |
  | wbritish-small    | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict  |
  | wcanadian         | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wcanadian-huge    | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wcanadian-insane  | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wcanadian-large   | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wcanadian-small   | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wcatalan          | Catalan dictionary words for /usr/share/dict          |
  | wswedish          | Swedish dictionary words for /usr/share/dict          |
  | wfrench           | French dictionary words for /usr/share/dict           |
  | witalian          | Italian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict/         |
  | wspanish          | Spanish dictionary words for /usr/share/dict          |
  +===================+=======================================================+

I suppose you could identify recent NS changes to create a list of servers/hosting that might not have been locked down or secured yet.

But on the whole I can't personally think of anything too bad.

i remember getting lot a spam from different persons/agencies to develop a website for my newly bought domain.

It also lets you quickly search for available domain names related to

- baby names - animal names - planet names etc etc via templates.

https://domainy.io

also isn't the value of a domain related to how closely it matches search queries.

https://every.horse/

In this case it seems to work with “participating tlds”, whichever those are.

But you're right for ccTLDs -- everyone uses their own format and most don't even allow you to get the zone file. There are some companies though that provide similar lists from crawling data (e.g. https://zonefiles.io/).