How I Got hyperclay.com

My platform is on hyperspace.so right now, but something feels off about it. I like having a .com as my domain name. And the word "hyperspace" feels too too broad, like it's trying to be too much.

I started out by considering other words like "web", "page", "stack", "card", and "layer" and seeing what other words people had combined them with in the past by using the excellent domain search tool expireddomains.net.

I even got desperate and booted up leandomainsearch.com to see if anyone had missed any good, two-word .coms. No luck. Nothing stood out.

It's then that I decided I definitely wanted a domain with "hyper" in it. "Hyper" conjures "HTML" (hypertext) and "HyperCard", both of which I wanted to pay homage to.

I considered many “hyper-” combinations using my ordinary domain search tools, but I couldn't find anything good. I even tried a few AI-powered search tools, but none let me filter for .com domains. And I knew I wanted a .com.

I realized I should get serious. Instead of random tools, I decided to do what leandomainsearch.com does (combines words with a chosen word), but with my own list of nouns.

I downloaded three separate lists of nouns—3-letter, 4-letter, and 5-letter words. These lists were freely available on wordexample.com. Using a small snippet of code, I copied all these words from the webpage:

copy(document.all["wordexample-word-list"].innerText.split("\n"))

Now I had thousands of compound nouns. I was about to write a Node.js script to do an API call to a domain search provider, when I ran across GoDaddy’s bulk domain search, which allowed me to search 2,000 domains at once!

I did two rounds of checks, for a total of 3,000 queries. Out of these, 1,250 were available domains! I carefully scanned them all by hand. Several caught my attention, like hyperpoet.com, hyperclay.com, hyperpond.com, hyperlava.com, and hyperput.com.

But, as soon as I saw hyperclay.com, I knew it was the one. I didn’t even need to finish looking through the list.

I love hyperclay.com because it's short, easy to remember, pays homage to HyperCard and HTML, and it's a .com ⭐️

I'll switch over everything hyperspace.so to hyperclay.com in the coming weeks!