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.

      • EfreakEnglish
        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) ↩︎