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!

    • bdonvrAEnglish
      6·
      3 年前

      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

  • Elkenders@feddit.ukEnglish
    91·
    3 年前

    How do you search to see what’s available? I assume anti.social is not available.

    • Midas@ymmel.nlEnglish
      3·
      3 年前

      I usually use namecheap because they have a mode that just queries a bunch of tld’s

    • b3nsn0w@pricefield.orgEnglish
      1·
      3 年前

      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)

    • fraydabson@lemm.ee
      1·
      3 年前

      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.ninjaEnglish
        2·
        3 年前

        Where are you hosting it and what’s the cost? I’d spin one up if it wasn’t too expensive.

        • fraydabson@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          3 年前

          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.ninjaEnglish
            2·
            3 年前

            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.eeEnglish
              1·
              3 年前

              Yeah I use the free plan of cloud flare to make the things I need accessible away from home

              • timespace@lemmy.ninjaEnglish
                1·
                3 年前

                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.eeEnglish
                  1·
                  3 年前

                  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.

    • timespace@lemmy.ninjaEnglish
      2·
      3 年前

      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.itEnglish
        2·
        3 年前

        I will probably open it up once I get it to a place where I’m happy with it.

        • timespace@lemmy.ninjaEnglish
          1·
          3 年前

          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.