Trying to come up with a new domain name is hard

Posted by on February 22, 2014 Leave a comment (6) Go to comments

I've got a new project I'm working on and I've been trying to think of  a new domain name all day.

I finally got tired of that so I whipped up a python script that uses a Markov chain seeded with a list of 6000 "interesting" words I found to generate interesting and realistic-sounding fake words.  It then checks to see if that word plus ".com" is an available domain.  

Out of the few hundred it's tried so far only about 19% are actually available.

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  1. Larry Rosenthal February 22, 2014 at 3:02 pm

    animal plus silly sound efx…= a vc darling.

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  2. Larry Rosenthal February 22, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    zapfish.  please send me 1000.00 USD via Paypal.

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