The best french domain name

Javier Saenz
26.03.2016

The problem to solve

There are more than 280 million domain names registered.
Finding good available domains is getting more complicated, data.com already registered ;)

If you want to recommend domains to users on a different language than yours, you have to make use of Data ;)

One option is to add common prefixes or suffixes to the wishdomain.
Example: If a french Data Scientist wants to register a domain related with “data”, we could suggest him:

  • francedata.com
  • atelier-data.com

Where do we find French prefixes and suffixes?

Afnic is the provider of .fr, and offers public access to a list of more than 3 million .fr domains

  1. We download the data from http://open.afnic.fr
  2. Select the first/last n letters of those domains.
  3. Using the text mining package tm we create a Term Document Matrix
  4. We plot a Word Cloud

Which are the most common prefixes and suffixes on domain names?


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