Chore: Separate domain for short links?

[nelsonic]

As noted in dwyl/app#284, an integral part of our App will be link management, shortening and tracking.
For that we are considering registering a separate domain name that is even shorter than the 6 characters we have in dwyl.co ... this will require a few hours of research ... ⌛
Opening this issue to keep track of the search.

[nelsonic]

List of 2-letter domain extensions: https://www.namecheap.com/blog/two-letter-domain-extensions/

[nelsonic]

https://micro.domains/

search for: "url"

search for "a" (any name starting with "a"):

Too many pages to scroll through ... will need to revisit this when I have time. 💭

[nelsonic]

It's surprising how many decent options there still are for short domains!

On the 3rd page we find "awo.li" which is very pronounceable and means "Sacrifice, Innovative, Powerful"
https://www.nameslook.com/awoli/

But I'm leaning towards sticking to the first page from an alphabetical list perspective ...

aabli: https://www.google.com/search?q=aabli&oq=aabli

https://www.aabli.org/

Don't want to get into a trademark dispute with these fine folks. 💭

"Aah" would be cool. as in: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aah

aahli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chryseobacterium_aahli bacteria

https://www.google.com/search?q=aah

aanli: https://www.shabdkosh.com/dictionary/malayalam-english/aanli/aanli-meaning-in-english

Thoughts? 💭

[nelsonic]

Thinking of getting these two:

The idea is simple:

1. build a generic link sharing micro-SAAS App under the aah.li domain and 🔗
2. re-use most of the code for our internal link shortening service for the @dwyl app as dwy.is
   to keep it minimally on-brand. 💭

Then if we ever have cash to burn, we'd pony up for dwy.li: 💸 🔥
https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?domain=dwy.li

Name Cheap indeed ... 🙄

We might just end up using aah.li for everything and build that into its' own brand.

[nelsonic]

Having second thoughts about the dwy.is domain ... 😕
Really wish I had someone to "bounce ideas" with ... 💡 💬
Like a co-founder/partner that wanted to build a software product more than anything else. 👩‍💻

The .is top level domain is associated with Iceland 🇮🇸 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.is

Nothing wrong with that. But "dwyis" doesn't really mean anything. 🤷‍♂️
We could try and come up with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym for it ... 💭

Need to get back to building things. ⏳
Going to stop thinking about this and do it. ✅
It's €38 for the option of using it. 💸 💧 🪣

Done. 🚀

[iteles]

I didn't see this until today because I'm still working through priority-1 labels assigned to me.