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Re:There's 456,976 4-Letter .com domains, and they're all gone by taraindara on Monday February 10, 2025 @04:03PM (#43005129)
I met the founder of a company who claimed they at one point owned every 3 letter .com domain they could get their hands on. Claims they had around 5000 of them (17576 total), and about a 100 2 letter domains. They had trouble figuring out what to do with them so they let them expire.

After working with them for a few years I believe this story, and especially the part they weren’t competent enough to know what they really had at the time.

Re:There's 456,976 4-Letter .com domains, and they're all gone by doublerabbit on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:04PM (#43003193)
What scares me is that you can now rent domains names you don't own from squatters

So you're now paying monthly money on a name you don't own which you wouldn't own anyway.

Re:There's 456,976 4-Letter .com domains, and they're all gone by andrewfromx on Monday February 10, 2025 @12:50PM (#43003033)
now do subreddits. It used to be cars.com was soooo valuable but now a days, for many words, the https://www.reddit.com/r/cars sub is more.
Re:There's 456,976 4-Letter .com domains, and they're all gone by paulpauper on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:07PM (#43003227)
funny how r/rapmusic or /r/rap are not as popular as the less concise r/hiphopheads
Re:There's 456,976 4-Letter .com domains, and they're all gone by andrewfromx on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:17PM (#43003336)
yeah whatever takes off wins.
Re:There's 456,976 4-Letter .com domains, and they're all gone by 4d4m on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:25PM (#43008955)
Wow I'm 1/456,976!
Re:There's 456,976 4-Letter .com domains, and they're all gone by gnabgib on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:35PM (#43009005)
You're 1/1,679,616 (36^4 = /[a-z0-9]{4}/) ... 456,976 is 26^4 or /[a-z]{4}/

I wonder if we could colab on a track.