This revision is from 2024/03/02 11:05. You can Restore it.

1. Keep it short
2. Preference for .com
3. Forget hyphens and numbers
4. One syllable
5. A word you can say

A domain name does not buy you anything. Building a brand around any name is as good as any name, and still difficult. My reasoning is just buy 1 domain name and do everything there.

expireddomains.net is a great place to re-register 0 day deleted domains. People have decided not to renew the domain, and now it is back on the market.

My advice to IANA is to phase out all the domain name extensions except for .com .net and .org and limit a valid domain name to 12 characters max, at most along with no numbers or hyphens.

Here are some useless python scripts...

# whois every combination from a.com to zzzz.com looking for unregistered domain

import whois
import sqlite3

def get_domain_expiration_date(domain_name):
    try:
        # Perform WHOIS lookup
        domain_info = whois.whois(domain_name)
        
        # Extract expiration date
        if domain_info.expiration_date:
            if isinstance(domain_info.expiration_date, list):
                # Handle multiple expiration dates
                expiration_date = domain_info.expiration_date[0]
            else:
                expiration_date = domain_info.expiration_date
                
            return expiration_date
        else:
            return None
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error: {str(e)}")
        return None

def insert_into_database(domain_name, expiration_date):
    try:
        # Connect to SQLite database
        conn = sqlite3.connect('domains.db')
        cursor = conn.cursor()

        # Create table if not exists
        cursor.execute('''CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS domains (
                            domain_name TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
                            expiry_date TEXT
                        )''')

        # Insert domain name and expiration date
        cursor.execute('''INSERT OR REPLACE INTO domains (domain_name, expiry_date)
                          VALUES (?, ?)''', (domain_name, expiration_date))

        # Commit changes
        conn.commit()
        conn.close()
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error inserting into database: {str(e)}")

def main():
    # Loop through all combinations of domain names from aa.com to zzzz.com
    for i in range(26):
        for j in range(26):
            for k in range(26):
#                for l in range(26):
                    domain_name = chr(ord('a') + i) + chr(ord('a') + j) + chr(ord('a') + k) + ".com"
                    expiration_date = get_domain_expiration_date(domain_name)
                    print(f"Domain {domain_name} expiration date: {expiration_date}")
                    if expiration_date:
                        insert_into_database(domain_name, expiration_date)
                        print("Domain information inserted into database.")
                    else:
                        print("Unable to retrieve expiration date. Not inserted into database.")
                    domain_name = chr(ord('a') + i) + chr(ord('a') + j) + chr(ord('a') + k) + ".org"
                    expiration_date = get_domain_expiration_date(domain_name)
                    print(f"Domain {domain_name} expiration date: {expiration_date}")
                    if expiration_date:
                        insert_into_database(domain_name, expiration_date)
                        print("Domain information inserted into database.")
                    else:
                        print("Unable to retrieve expiration date. Not inserted into database.")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

import whois
import sqlite3
from datetime import datetime

def get_domain_expiration_date(domain_name):
    try:
        # Perform WHOIS lookup
        domain_info = whois.whois(domain_name)
        
        # Extract expiration date
        if domain_info.expiration_date:
            if isinstance(domain_info.expiration_date, list):
                # Handle multiple expiration dates
                expiration_date = domain_info.expiration_date[0]
            else:
                expiration_date = domain_info.expiration_date
                
            return expiration_date
        else:
            return None
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error: {str(e)}")
        return None

def insert_into_database(domain_name, expiration_date):
    try:
        # Connect to SQLite database
        conn = sqlite3.connect('domains.db')
        cursor = conn.cursor()

        # Create table if not exists
        cursor.execute('''CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS domains (
                            domain_name TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
                            expiry_date TEXT
                        )''')

        # Insert domain name and expiration date
        cursor.execute('''INSERT OR REPLACE INTO domains (domain_name, expiry_date)
                          VALUES (?, ?)''', (domain_name, expiration_date))

        # Commit changes
        conn.commit()
        conn.close()
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error inserting into database: {str(e)}")

def main():
    try:
        # Connect to SQLite dictionary database
        conn_dict = sqlite3.connect('small_word_set_en_dictionary.db')
        cursor_dict = conn_dict.cursor()

        # Select all words from the dictionary 
        cursor_dict.execute("SELECT word FROM entries WHERE length(word) < 7 ")  # LENGTH

        # cursor_dict.execute("SELECT word FROM entries")
        words = cursor_dict.fetchall()

        for word_tuple in words:
            word = word_tuple[0]
            
            # Omit word if it starts or ends with a hyphen
            if word.startswith('-') or word.endswith('-'):
                print(f"Skipping word '{word}' because it starts or ends with a hyphen.")
                continue
            
            domain_com = word + ".com"
            domain_org = word + ".org"

            expiration_date_com = get_domain_expiration_date(domain_com)
            expiration_date_org = get_domain_expiration_date(domain_org)

            print(f"Domain {domain_com} expiration date: {expiration_date_com}")
            if expiration_date_com:
                insert_into_database(domain_com, expiration_date_com.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"))
                print("Domain information inserted into database.")
            else:
                print("Unable to retrieve expiration date for .com domain. Adding to database with today's date.")
                insert_into_database(domain_com, datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"))

            print(f"Domain {domain_org} expiration date: {expiration_date_org}")
            if expiration_date_org:
                insert_into_database(domain_org, expiration_date_org.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"))
                print("Domain information inserted into database.")
            else:
                print("Unable to retrieve expiration date for .org domain. Adding to database with today's date.")
                insert_into_database(domain_org, datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"))

        conn_dict.close()
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error: {str(e)}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()