Found two awesome domain names (shown as available on namecheap) for the url shortener!

Paid when an error appeared. Contacted the customer service through the live chat.

A bug in their system showed them as available while they're taken.

😭

@AlexDeLarge I was so fucking happy, grabbed a beer aaaand then FUCK ☹️

@namenlossss Yeah I'll be refunded right away.

my.li and sh.li 😭

@namenlossss Any suggestions?

@linuxxx Damn dude. You're slowly turning into an alcoholic person haha

@-ANGRY-CLIENT- Howso? i just love special beers and its weekend :)

@linuxxx recently I'm just seeing that you are having beers here and then. You're mentioning them in the comments and threads :)

Or I'm just inactive af

@linuxxx plsbesmaller.*whatever*?

@-ANGRY-CLIENT- I've been doing that since I joined haha. Having a beer every day still doesn't make you an alcoholic though!

@linuxxx @-ANGRY-CLIENT- Alcoholic comes when you feel like you need to drink all the time and/or starting at 9 am in the morning lol

I had the same with eh.eu. So short, so available, until it was not. It's reserved in case any European (or member state) institute with EH as an acronym wants it. Makes sense, but what about first come first serve? I guess that doesn't work in Europe with its protectionism. 😒

google.com is available!

.... Aw shit, just a bug

www.smol.me

Edit: damn those russians

@namenlossss Every public whois service I could find so quickly is already rate limiting me 😅

@namenlossss Checking shitloads of domains xD

@linuxxx Are you from Israel? Might be coincidence but "shli" is "my" in Hebrew (reminded the other one you wanted to get)

They are actually not taken. 2 letter entries for domain extensions are almost always reserved for special use cases. You could contact the main .li registrar and ask them if you can buy it, but they'll probably tell you no.

@linuxxx

maybe be the .li registrant is the problem here, but looks like I could order the domain just fine

@Kimmax You have the my.li domain now? 😧

.link is a valid tld. I guess that's relevant?

Short.en?

I got mine through eurodns. They are pretty helpfully verbose about nation-level requirements. For example, I REALLY wanted bah.ua, but a Ukrainian trademark or proof of Ukrainian business is required. EuroDNS pointed that out pretty quickly.

@linuxxx no. Could, like could do that right now

@namenlossss++ for proper use of xor

"enlazar" is the spanish word for "link". So you can use enlaz.ar
If you are okay with being "worldwide" :D

Edit:
Seems like "enlazar" is the verb. "elaza" is the noun. But I think enla.za is also nice

I always doublecheck with whois.

Just get a .pizza domain, or your Linu.xxx

Btw, use the command whois instead of a webservice.

Or maybe ask the part of the infrastructure that keeps track in stead of polling some of the registrars?

I'm thinking that asking the DNS should be the fastest way of determining if a domain is available?
You should get the best response times, the most updated information, and the possibility to either request minimal records to speed up things or get all records to verify to which extend the domain is actually used...

PHP should let you do it pretty easily (http://php.net/dns-get-record) and Cloudflare (and APNIC) just launched their new, faster and more privacy-focused DNS (1.0.0.1 and 1.1.1.1) to abuse ;)

sma.li?