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The winks domain name looks to have several good tld's available for it. You could use a South Park reference and go for a lemmy.winks domain.
Some examples I saw available:
- lemmy.winks.rocks
- lemmy.winks.host
- lemmy.winks.site
- lemmy.winks.cloud
- lemmy.winks.website
Some others I've found (with "lemmy" prepended)
- lemmy.by.ninja
- lemmy.without.me
- lemmy.without.rest
- lemmy.is.legal
- lemmy.is.global
Gonna stop there because I don't think that I can top the "is.global" domain.
.global requires at least 3 characters, unfortunately.
is.legal and by.ninja cost $110/yr, a questionable price for a domain that makes no money. In this case, by.community would probably be better at the same price.
without.rest is available, and only $40/yr. without.me has a $5000+ premium fee, but the following are available for $50/yr or less[^1]:
- talk.without.chat $40/yr
- alone.without.company $20/yr
- yourname.without.social $30/yr
- alone.without.community $30/yr; community..., yourname...
- internet.without.network $20/yr
- life.without.place $15/yr; life
- play.without.games $20/yr
- dad.without.mom $40/yr (dating community?)
- people.without.business, community.without.business $12/yr
- life.without.money $40/yr
- old.without.family, no.life.without.family $20/yr
- play.without.toys $40/yr
- life.without.reviews $20/yr
- fools.without.cool $30/yr; school..., tool...
- face,body.without.skin; living,alien.inyour.skin $15/yr; run a horror community?
- girl.without.cam $20/yr 😏
- backdoor.mom $40/yr
- network.without.domains $30/yr
- website.without.graphics $20/yr
- website.without.pictures $12/yr
- work.without.holiday $50/yr
- art.without.supplies $20/yr
- life.without.luxury $40/yr
- work.without.vacations $30/yr
- genius.without.degree $40/yr
- dumb.without.news $30/yr
- federated.love, raining.singles $30/yr
- federated.club $14+$18/yr
- federated.site $20/yr
- federated.gallery, federated.graphics $20/yr; image hosting (anfora, pixelfed)
- federated.pictures $11/yr, ☝️
- fake.photography $20/yr, Photoshop competitions
- forgery.fun, forgery.pro $20/yr, just sounds fun
- counterfeit.tech $40/yr
- its.raining.ninja $19/yr
- snails.forsale $30/yr; probably a lot of weird .forsale available
- yourname.eating.rocks $13/yr
- backdoor.icu $18/yr
- backdoor.dad $15/yr
- backdoor.lawyer $40/yr
- up.inyour.business $12/yr
[^1]: Some of these might be first-year-only offers, I didn't check. I was just finishing this list when I realized that Google Domains is probably only showing the premium prices for some registrars (it's also being inconsistent about the price of without.me), so some of them might also have an extra fee (backdoor.icu is shown as premium, but doesn't say what the fee is)
I tried searching loser and Google domains is giving me suggestions for loserbeck.*
community.without.business is a good fit.
Thanks for your service
Likewise, the "forme" domain name has some good tld's available.
lemmy.in
I like it but it's taken. I could grab lemmy.co.in. lemmy.in is way better though.
what about lemmy.inn.tavern .. i know nothing about naming stuff
The person who buys lem.my and runs a server on it becomes the king of Lemmy
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What about: Lemmy.wehavebeans?
I just went through the list of catchy tlds to find one that wasnt $30+ when renewal came up and then went with whatever short domain I could come up with.
And yes, definitely watch those renewal costs. There are some domains that look like a great deal right now with the introductory deals, like .host, but be ready to pay $85 per year at renewal time!
.movie is $215/yr 😱
That has been my approach so far but I think it's getting pretty picked through. :)
Honestly I just typed Lemmy into Namecheap and saw what TLDs were available
I’m in no way capable of giving you advice as I’m very new to Lemmy but aren’t domain names kinda related to the goal of their “content”?
If your goal is to create a “kitchen sink” sorta thing aimed more toward your own interests then why not use your username? As in: trinity.tek
I think it kinda works honestly but again, I have no skin in this game.
Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately the closest thing is trinity.tech and it's been in use since 2007. If it were available they'd probably charge me a premium rate for it too. Single dictionary words are generally more expensive. I'm kind of being a choosing beggar I guess but I really want a catchy domain name cheap.
TrinityTek.social
trinitytek.dev
TrinityTek.win is available. $3.16/yr through Cloudflare. Probably a buck or so more through others.
Dang, that’s too bad. Good luck to you!
Coming up with a domain name that I am happy with is an impossible task. I usually accept one I find "good enough" otherwise I end up in your situation three days later. I completely understand your frustration!
Thanks for the input. At least I know I'm not alone. I'll probably just have to settle for something soon and stop wasting time.
That’s how we got a generation of products with made up names like “Twitter” and “Google.” Just mash some words together until you get a word that sounds good. Like…. Trone. Trone.pro is $3/yr on Namecheap. My finders fee is astronomical, though
What could you possibly need a tripod phone for?
Taking pictures
Google was an accidental misspelling of googol
I snagged lemmyw.ink to roll one soon. Lemmiw.ink, too, for good measure.
I was very tickled with myself.
I got lemmy.cyou when I thought I could figure out how to host, but can’t seem to get my compose file right.
I just kept it simple
Is it for a general instance or perhaps a specific niche/topic? Either way, anything short and simple is enough. Most people don't like typing long addresses.
What do you think of fdr8.us? Then I could do some subdomains off of it like lemmy.fdr8.us and mastodon.fdr8.us.
I like it. You could make that work.
Thanks for the feedback! After days of thinking about it and checking availability it was the best I had come up with so I just went for it. Those urls should work soon if all goes according to plan.
Have fun!
Do .us domains still have a strict locality-based naming scheme? Or did they end that policy?
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I'm thinking general instance, but I don't want a bunch of right wing or religious stuff so I will have some ground rules.
domain.name
seent.online
Well, irdc stands for “I really don’t care”, and I guess “derp” and “foo” speak for themselves…in the long run it doesn’t really matter.
Mastodon.fdr8.us is now live. Lemmy.fdr8.us coming soon!
I picked a domain by trying to figure out which top level domains were cheap and then just seeing what stupid stuff was available.
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