I'm seeing English dictionary words in the drop lists

[Kuffy]

What's going on? A few years ago they would have never made it onto a deleted list.

 

[creataweb]

Words that most people haven't heard of?

 

[Kuffy]

Words that most people haven't heard of?

Some are, but some of the .coms I've picked up recently are

Coacts
Crustings
Gawpe
Pasteurises
Putrefact
Sensitised

and those don't include the urban dictionary words.

 

[Jose Canucee]

Putrefact... I like that one

 

[Kuffy]

Putrefact... I like that one

I thought it would make a nice site to discuss some news reports, and the statistics quoted by some Brexit remainers.

 

[GoKaizen]

These don't strike me as words most people are familiar with.

Am I wrong here?

Some are, but some of the .coms I've picked up recently are

Coacts
Crustings
Gawpe
Pasteurises
Putrefact
Sensitised

and those don't include the urban dictionary words.

 

[Kuffy]

These don't strike me as words most people are familiar with.

Am I wrong here?

Most people have very limited vocabularies, and I gather the range is decreasing.
One of our politicians was criticised for using the word "floccinaucinihilipilification" which may not be in popular usage. I would hesitate to register that, but it's taken in both the com and the net. How many people will remember how to spell it.

I knew all of the words I mentioned, so they can't be that uncommon. " sensitised " might be difficult because most people seem to think it is the same as sensitive. However it is probably useful as a site to discuss chemical pollution.

 

[xynames]

Stupid all of them. Crusting might be something but crustings isn’t one of the normally used forms. Coacts and gawps are second person singular conjugations. Two are British spellings.

Garbage. That’s why they were deleted.

 

[Kuffy]

Stupid all of them. Crusting might be something but crustings isn’t one of the normally used forms. Coacts and gawps are second person singular conjugations. Two are British spellings.

Garbage.

Some of us believe that American spellings are garbarge, and based on limited education in the Wild West. I mean, you don't even know the difference between Insure, Assure and Ensure, but then personal attacks just indicate the inadequacy of the attacker and I suspect we should stop this, so maybe you should put me on ignore. I'll probably ignore you if you can't be constructive, and continue to have problems with my logic.

 

[xynames]

The domains are garbage that’s why they were deleted.

 

[Kuffy]

I need a new dictionary then, so that I can learn words like "taxmatic" - is that like asthmatic?

 

[HotKey]

Some are, but some of the .coms I've picked up recently are

Coacts
Crustings
Gawpe
Pasteurises
Putrefact
Sensitised

and those don't include the urban dictionary words.

Because they are crap, dot-com or not won't change that.

 

[xynames]

I need a new dictionary then, so that I can learn words like "taxmatic" - is that like asthmatic?

I don’t know...but taxmatic sold for two grand. Check namebio.

 

[Kuffy]

I don’t know...but taxmatic sold for two grand. Check namebio.

So there is hope for my names.

 

[Kate]

Most of these names are awkward as stand-alone domain names, thus not really usable for any meaningful purpose.
Even today you can still register dictionary words, for example stuff like unpainstakingly or whatever, but again what's the point. People ain't buying these names and you can't really develop them into useful sites. Even the names that are more or less OK don't have much resale value.
Those domain purges are something normal and recurrent.

 

[JB Lions]

Dictionary words is code for bad domains, usually.

You can't think of any other way to describe them, or it's not obvious like most domains, so you have to point out it's in the dictionary. All words are, this isn't some great achievement.

 

[xynames]

Well no - I mean there are plenty of oddball deliberately misspelled “brandable” domain names that are not in the dictionary. Some of these are good and some too, are garbage.

But I understand what you’re saying which is that if ALL you may say about a domain name is that “it’s in the dictionary,” chances are...it stinks.

Just like if ALL you have to say about a domain is that “it was brand bucket accepted”:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/wh...-domain-does-it-mean-anything-at-all.1051324/

 

[xynames]

One thing I would ask the OP - so, are you saying that even dictionary words of this low domain quality were not appearing as deletes/drops before? Because if so - then, okay! this thread has some meaning - that even crap dictionary names did not appear as available before now. Is that the case?

Which, not to belabor (belabour? lol) the point of how garbagey these names are, but - these are dot coms - typically the realm of U.S. companies/users, so British spellings that might be apposite in a .co.uk are completely out of place in a dot com. A U.S. company/user is going to look for a British spelling in its website? I don't think so.

 

[Furquan]

Some are, but some of the .coms I've picked up recently are

Coacts
Crustings
Gawpe
Pasteurises
Putrefact
Sensitised

and those don't include the urban dictionary words.

I have heard them first, I will try to find my English teacher.

 

[JB Lions]

Here is another bad sign if you're thinking about buying a dictionary type word. I picked one at random from the list above, Crustings. Never heard of it, Googled it:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Crustings&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1

9 out of the first 10 listings are dictionary, thesaurus type results, 1 an informational type site.

So that's bad when most of the results are trying to explain to you what the word even is.

No ads whatsoever, not a money word.

And what's been mentioned, hand reg, another bad sign. If I look at the names I drop myself vs. the ones that sell, get offers, I keep, I notice the ones I drop tend not to be registered in any other extension. Another bad sign. One bad sign might not be a big deal but with multiple bad signs, probably not worth a reg.