Show HN: DotComAgain – Find free dropped .com domains

Hi, I am the author of dotcomagain.<p>With dotcomagain you can search through recently dropped .com, .org, .net, .biz, .cc, and .tv domains. I check the .com, .net, .org, .biz domains daily, to make sure they are free. The .tv and .cc are not checked currently, due to technical reasons.<p>The nice thing about dropped domains is, that many have been bought with a business in mind. So, not only are these domains free for purchase, many are also spellable and &quot;make sense&quot;. So, find the domain to your next idea here or just be inspired or amazed by what people previously bought.<p>If you have questions or feedback, feel free to leave it here or in the feedback box on the website :)

Interesting, I wonder if all the new TLDs have eased the pressure on .com&#x2F;.net&#x2F;.org&#x2F;etc.<p>10-15 years ago, any remotely intelligible expired .com&#x2F;.net domain would be picked up by bots as soon as it was available and held for years.<p>They would put them on sale for a much higher price (10x+ the yearly fee, much more if they were good domain names).<p>That was the last time I cared about domain names, as did many other people it seems. Now it&#x27;s just whatever. Make up a word that&#x27;s easy to spell&#x2F;pronounce&#x2F;remember, even if it&#x27;s nonsensical, and build a brand around it.

How does one even get a list of dropped domains to populate this database? This is something I really have no knowledge about.

Is there a legitimate use for this besides being a domain squatter?

Does not seem to work in Firefox:<p>&gt; Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;[...].execute-api.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;[...].execute-api.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com&#x2F;</a>[...]. (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing).<p>edit: I also get similar error messages intermittently in Chrome.

This could have been interesting. But search for anything and it’s clear why people dropped these domains :&#x2F;

It would be interesting to have a feed of domains here, and you could filter not by keyword but other parameters. For example, domains that have been registered for more than 5 years (age).

I had a .com domain lapse while I was in hospital a couple of years ago, and The hijackers wanted $20,000 to sell it back to me. I don’t know what planet they were from, but it is a name that would be useful to literally only five or ten people at most. I just waited a year or so and then bought it back when it became available again for the more sane $10. Somebody is paying these idiots or else they would not be up to that sort of rubbish.

It seems on iPhone at least you have to type really fast or it searches for the first few characters you entered and doesn’t update.<p>Maybe because I have content blockers.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dotcomagain.com&#x2F;paa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dotcomagain.com&#x2F;paa</a><p>bad data. paa.com is not available.

Is there an API or service that can tell me the value of a domain by looking at things like backlinks or Alexa ranking or something like that?<p>What if I were to make a tool that monitored dropped domains and ran it through the service and then automatically bought domains which had some base value according to the tool?

Nice idea, and nicely done.<p>This is where an endless list does NOT work. I want to know the total # results for my search, so I can better decide judge if I should add more words to the search query.<p>My workflow would be to compare a bunch of saved choices, would be nice to make it easy to add bunch to a cart&#x2F;list of some sort then

Nice! This brings back some old memories from a long time ago..<p>Would be great to have a wildcard such as * as well as basic filters to allow for search by: numbers or letters only, .com only etc. Also found right away a domain that is not available and registered since 1997 so wondering how accurate the list is.

I really like your logo. I think it’s very clever making the “dot” in the place of the “.”

This is an AMAZING tool and very useful. I appreciate you working on it and love it. I feel like you offer suggestions for domains, but maybe its just pulling in the lists.

Just a heads up, a few domains are coming back as free but are registered. Check out paa.com

Nice stuff. Congrats<p>Have you posted on namepros? That’s where all the domainers go to

This is neat.<p>Quite funny to put in some &#x27;naughty&#x27; words to see what comes up

Aside of not find it useful and find it excessively slow, -1.