Perl Boredom, Domain Hunting

The other day, registrars began opening up domain registrations to .me TLDs.  I became aware of this because Beth at PixelRN had a quandary about a domain she was trying to register and the TLD .me obviously caught my eye.  From what I can gather, tons of .me domains are being snagged by the hour at premium prices.  GoDaddy and other registrars are reportedly screwing the pooch either because of higher-than-expected demand or because there has been too much bullshit with front-running where searches basically ‘tip off’ a registrar (and, in my conspiracy-theory-addled brain, an elite group of insider clients who will snag it in the precious waiting period while one decides if they want it or not).

I probably won’t get one, but in complete boredom I wondered what kind of games could be played with to see what domains could be listed.  Here is a Perl one-liner from a shell CLI querying the UNIX (in this case, Mac OSX) generic words flat-file database. (another common location for this file would be /usr/dict/words):

enrico@AppleCore:~$ perl -ne 'if (/^(.*)me$/) \
{ print "$1me ($1.me)\n"; }' /usr/share/dict/words


abrocome (abroco.me)
absume (absu.me)
academe (acade.me)
acetoxime (acetoxi.me)
achime (achi.me)
acme (ac.me)
acrodrome (acrodro.me)
acrosome (acroso.me)
actiniochrome (actiniochro.me)
actinodrome (actinodro.me)
actinosome (actinoso.me)
actinostome (actinosto.me)
adarme (adar.me)
adenochrome (adenochro.me)
adenomatome (adenomato.me)
adenotome (adenoto.me)
adrenochrome (adrenochro.me)
adventuresome (adventureso.me)
aerodrome (aerodro.me)
aflame (afla.me)
aforetime (aforeti.me)
afterchrome (afterchro.me)
aftercome (afterco.me)
afterfame (afterfa.me)
aftergame (afterga.me)
afterlifetime (afterlifeti.me)
aftertime (afterti.me)
agname (agna.me)
agoranome (agorano.me)
agronome (agrono.me)
airdrome (airdro.me)
airframe (airfra.me)
Akhlame (Akhla.me)
aldime (aldi.me)
aldoxime (aldoxi.me)
allosome (alloso.me)
alme (al.me)
ame (a.me)
amidoxime (amidoxi.me)
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