Re:Show HN: Ishim – find available one-word domain names
by zamadatix on Friday September 17, 2021 @09:05PM
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> no 3 alphanumeric ascii character domain names left, at the time.
I went looking for a personal domain probably about 7 years back and wanted something short... it was disheartening to see the percentage of short domains that were just being squatted, and blatantly so. One guy even made his living off of brokering 1 letter domains. Eventually I found my first+last initials on a 2 letter tld that somehow hadn't been completely bought up (1 letter domains were long gone though) and have used that ever since with email reminders and calendar reminders everywhere so I never forget to renew!
I went looking for a personal domain probably about 7 years back and wanted something short... it was disheartening to see the percentage of short domains that were just being squatted, and blatantly so. One guy even made his living off of brokering 1 letter domains. Eventually I found my first+last initials on a 2 letter tld that somehow hadn't been completely bought up (1 letter domains were long gone though) and have used that ever since with email reminders and calendar reminders everywhere so I never forget to renew!