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Comment by LeoPanthera

2 days ago

I have a tiny bash script that picks four random common words from the list of the 10000 most common words on Wikipedia and tries to ping <word>.com for each.

It's quite rare to find an unregistered one.

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LeoPanthera

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qingcharles  2 days ago

I did this via some sort of bash + WHOIS call in about 1995 with the dictionary file I normally used for passwd cracking. There were a lot available then.

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