<story><title>Show HN: 51,000 6 character domains</title><url>http://www.coreyballou.com/six-character-domain-names/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jqueryin</author><text>For the last few years I&apos;ve been toying with a variety of techniques for finding available domain names. This is one of my more recent attempts that I thought would be useful to all of you on HN. I created a simple search and alphabetical lookup with pagination to be able to browse through these domains as easily as possible. I built the website search functionality yesterday, so it was quick and dirty (but hopefully the UI is clean enough).&lt;p&gt;Since the current listing is cached, the only way to tell if a domain is truly still available (and some other HN member hasn&apos;t picked it up), you need to click the &quot;Test&quot; button to run a new WHOIS test. If the domain is taken, it&apos;ll automatically be removed and you&apos;ll be informed. If not, you&apos;ll get a nice little success message with both purchase buttons.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;d love any suggestions. Let us know if you find anything good :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonsarris</author><text>&amp;#62;Let us know if you find anything good :)&lt;p&gt;I was surprised saalty.com wasn&apos;t taken. It sounds so damn cute. I just bought it on impulse because my heart melts at the drop of a hat for some dumb reason.&lt;p&gt;Now I have to draw something cute to put there, like a little deer licking a salt cube.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: 51,000 6 character domains</title><url>http://www.coreyballou.com/six-character-domain-names/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jqueryin</author><text>For the last few years I&apos;ve been toying with a variety of techniques for finding available domain names. This is one of my more recent attempts that I thought would be useful to all of you on HN. I created a simple search and alphabetical lookup with pagination to be able to browse through these domains as easily as possible. I built the website search functionality yesterday, so it was quick and dirty (but hopefully the UI is clean enough).&lt;p&gt;Since the current listing is cached, the only way to tell if a domain is truly still available (and some other HN member hasn&apos;t picked it up), you need to click the &quot;Test&quot; button to run a new WHOIS test. If the domain is taken, it&apos;ll automatically be removed and you&apos;ll be informed. If not, you&apos;ll get a nice little success message with both purchase buttons.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;d love any suggestions. Let us know if you find anything good :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkl</author><text>This is pretty cool.  The only suggestions I have are the obvious ones of finding search strings anywhere (not just the beginning), and including more domains (which I&apos;m guessing means adding more bigrams).&lt;p&gt;Where did you get the list of domains?  Does it include all six character ones, or just the ones made of the common bigrams?</text></comment>