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Re:Find a good available .com domain by overthemoon on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @08:06AM (#31666062)
Has it ever turned out that one of these words means something dirty or profane or something in another language?
Re:Find a good available .com domain by 256DEV on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @08:31AM (#31666300)
Interesting question! Well no one has complained so far, but I should definitely run them all through Google Translate to see. I could see this happening quite easily.

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...

Re:Find a good available .com domain by darrenkopp on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @08:42AM (#31666403)
Yeah. At my last job we made a pivot table tool feature into our project and we named it Pito after Pito Salas, thinking we were so clever and finally came up with a slick little branding for a feature. But that's slang for penis in Spanish... name lasted for a couple of years before it was replaced.