Hey folks, the title says it all... I am on the brink to open my own Lemmy instance and I'm looking for a name. I already own the following unused domains:
-lemmy.pw -voom.social -zeebo.social
Maybe you can even suggest a completely different name? The instance will be a general one.
Thanks!
41 Comments
coconutxyz@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 3y
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun · 19 pts · 3y
Sadly I just checked and beans.social is taken so I'm all out of timeless name ideas.
SaintOfIllusion@lemmy.one · 11 pts · 3y
Lemmy.pw is short and recognizable. That would be my pick.
seafootball@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
That sounds like the best, I'll stick with it. Thank you!
Elkenders@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 3y
How do you search to see what's available? I assume anti.social is not available.
midas@ymmel.nl · 3 pts · 3y
I usually use namecheap because they have a mode that just queries a bunch of tld's
b3nsn0w@pricefield.org · 1 pts · 3y
that would be something you do when registering a domain. you enter what you want and the thing tells you whether it's available -- or you can use one of the domain checker sites that do the same thing, or run a DNS query yourself and see if it resolves with NXDOMAIN (although that might be wrong, i'm not completely up to date on the details of this one)
gazoo@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 6 pts · 3y
Yeah I don't think this is feasible.
You'd have to own is.world, is.fun, is.life, the.world
Those domain names are almost certainly already taken, and the owners will probably charge quite a lot to buy it
joelfromaus@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 3y
I hear “crack.pipe” as a great name according to some self hosted users. /s
Monologue@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 3y
lemmie.org
lemmie.io
lemmy.kiwi
lemmy.lat
those are the ones that i could find
edit: or lemonparty.live for shits and giggles
TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 3y
Why are you like this?
/c/angryupvote
carmeline@social.opendesktop.org · 2 pts · 3y
@seafootball Was it hard to get it up and running?
Also, pewpew-lemmy.pw sounds fun to me =P
fraydabson@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
I recently setup one up and it wasn’t difficult.
Biggest issue for me was user error where I didn’t think about needing an smtp service to send emails. So just got a free one that allows 300/day
timespace@lemmy.ninja · 2 pts · 3y
Where are you hosting it and what’s the cost? I’d spin one up if it wasn’t too expensive.
director@some.institute · 1 pts · 3y
I started one on Linode, a 2gb shared vps. Seems to be running fine so far. Cost per month is $12.
fraydabson@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
Self host on an old desktop I turned into a headless Linux server. So no cost unless you factor in wattage but my servers already running a number of other applications. Oh and I guess my domain but I was also using that already.
timespace@lemmy.ninja · 2 pts · 3y
Ah nice. I have an Unraid server but thus far have all the apps and shit I run accessible via LAN/VPN only. I have pfsense and know how to mess with haproxy a little to reverse proxy things through, but I’m not sure how secure that is or if that opens the attack surface up drastically, so I haven’t really dabbled in allowing external access to my server. Might look into it.
fraydabson@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
Yeah I use the free plan of cloud flare to make the things I need accessible away from home
timespace@lemmy.ninja · 1 pts · 3y
That the secure tunnel thing I keep hearing about?
Do you use that for lemmy as well, as in your instance is private?
fraydabson@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
It’s more than that. My instance is public. Though not currently running. Cloudflare lets you open your private network to the public without exposing your IP or opening ports.
AlecSadler@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
seafootball wouldn't be a bad name
LordChaos82@fosstodon.org · 1 pts · 3y
@AlecSadler @seafootball Or seasoccer depending on what side if the pond you are from 🤣
blazarious@mylem.me · 2 pts · 3y
zombo.social because I just learned about zombo.com
stown@sedd.it · 1 pts · 3y
I like the names seent.it or seent.online. I probably would have picked one of those if I hadn't decided on sedd.it for my instance.
timespace@lemmy.ninja · 2 pts · 3y
Oh that’s yours? I was just on the map site to try and find an instance near me and liked your name so I tried to sign up and your signup form says I need to know you.
And now I’m sad.
stown@sedd.it · 2 pts · 3y
I will probably open it up once I get it to a place where I'm happy with it.
timespace@lemmy.ninja · 1 pts · 3y
Sweet! I’ll check back after awhile.
Out of curiosity, how’s you score a .it domain? I have one, but only because I have family in the EU. IIRC, it was a pain in the pass to get, had to jump through a bunch of hoops to “authenticate” being in the EU.
stown@sedd.it · 1 pts · 3y
With GoDaddy. I guess they use some kind of broker/ holding company.
timespace@lemmy.ninja · 1 pts · 3y
Oh interesting ok thanks!
partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
How about something less direct like: OffTheCliff.social
Woozy@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Lemmyin.org
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 3y
how about lemmings.social?
Jaysyn@kbin.social · -1 pts · 3y
lemmy.be.social
abieNathanTheyThem@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 3y
I have used a Chatbot hence the redundancy. Made small modifications, it's a start.
Regarding the downvote:
Roughled some feathers from the looks of it, good