As the title says, I’m ready to fire up a Lemmy server of my own. I have a suitable VPS running Debian 11. I think I can probably make short work of it once I get past this one difficult point. What should I call my Lemmy server? With catchy names out there like “Lemmy.World” and “sh.itjust.works”, I really want to come up with something good. Unfortunately after thinking it over for three days now and checking tons of names for availability, I don’t feel any closer to deciding on a name. It doesn’t help that almost all the dictionary words are sold at premium rates these days, even with a fairly obscure tld. Any name suggestions or techniques for choosing a good name would be appreciated. It probably sounds silly but this part just isn’t my strong suit and I’m frustrated that it’s holding up the project.

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    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
    • EndOfLine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Efreak@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        .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

        I tried searching loser and Google domains is giving me suggestions for loserbeck.*

        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) ↩︎

      • rpn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        It totally does, and lem.my is even available! But you need to be an officially registered business in Malaysia to get a .my domain which is going to make it hard. Otherwise I would have registered it already 😅

        • Efreak@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Ah, that explains it. I assumed Google would show me everything, it is Google. Apparently they don’t, though. Maybe I should find a service that doesn’t actually offer registration.

  • SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeoEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • TrinityTek@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      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!

  • Aidan@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    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

  • nemanin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I snagged lemmyw.ink to roll one soon. Lemmiw.ink, too, for good measure.

    I was very tickled with myself.

  • hitagi@ani.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • JonDotG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I got lemmy.cyou when I thought I could figure out how to host, but can’t seem to get my compose file right.