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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fedi McFedFace

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The person who buys lem.my and runs a server on it becomes the king of Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

.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.*

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

community.without.business is a good fit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How is backdoor.mom not a porn site?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

backdoor.dad costs less

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol I asked chatgpt for you:

Buzzword Domain Names

User
I need a list of good website domain names that are like buzz words

ChatGPT
Sure! Here's a list of website domain names that are like buzzwords:

BuzzGenius.com
TrendSpotter.io
InnovateHub.com
TechWhiz.biz
StartUpJunction.com
DigitechGuru.com
BuzzMaven.net
ThinkTankX.com
AgileNinja.org
GrowthHacker.co
DisruptiveWave.com
TrendsetterX.com
IdeaStormer.net
DigitalRevolution.io
DataGeekLab.com
SparkHub.xyz
ActionableInsights.org
EmpowermentCentral.com
ViralBuzzHub.com
TechSavvyGenius.com

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

All of those domains sound like blogspam domains.