Show HN: Available Five Character Alpha Domains

Perfect timing! This is will be great for my $1 NameCheap coupon... <a href="https://www.namecheap.com/deals/30000-retweets-0.98-domains-july-2012.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.namecheap.com/deals/30000-retweets-0.98-domains-...</a>

As promised in my previous weeks submission "Show HN: 51,000 6 character domains" (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4207783" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4207783</a>), here's a listing 10,750 available 5 letter domain names I found via combinations of high frequency digrams, trigrams, and beginning and ending letters.<p>I simplified the process and removed the buy buttons to unclutter the view. They are now baked into the "Check Availability" button. The site also uses infinite scrolling, but there are likely to be a few kinks if no new info is found since I put up a MVP of the infinite scroller.

Interesting to see how many 5 chars are available. But a godaddy referal? Really?

Why link to godaddy when there are tons of respectable choices?

These are fun, and it's interesting to see solid domains still in there. destn.com (standard abbreviation for Destination on tickets, or close to destin, French for destiny) was there. IOUit.com, OnOft.com...<p>Some neat ones I didn't pick up: erleo.com ofury.com ionur.com vengd.com and atond.com reoff.com ennds.com phaar.com ioran.com<p>This is addictive, though... Closing it now!

Thanks! I just snagged STLDO.com -- I have an idea for a St. Louis events website!

Back in the late 1990s, I wrote a perl script that whois'd every "$word.com" in /usr/share/dict/words. At the time, I thought, "gee, all the good names are taken" and registered none of them. I kick myself now. &#60;:)

It seems to repeat the last page ad infinitum. E.g. I’m on “V”, and once you scroll down past “veury.com” it just repeats from “veour.com.” I was also hoping to browse “vec∗” domain names, and they seem to be missing from the index entirely.

Is there any way you could make the search match the end of the domain instead of the start? There are a few words I'd like to experiment with where I'd quite like to have a "branding" letter (or letters!) at the front :)

I feel like I'm missing something... What's the value of a 5 letter domain over a 6 letter domain?

Any chance we could have one search that allows us to search the character limit?

Awesome! Thanks for this — already grabbed a couple.

I fail to see the use for this. Why exactly would you want to know what pronounceable 5-char domains there are? It's like two minutes work to script this yourself.<p>Edit: Also neat how there is text and a copyright notice at the bottom which you'll never be able to read because the page automatically loads more domains. It's barely readable when holding down the end button...

It annoys me that this doesn't include the .com in the character count.