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Five jokes about the nightmare of getting a domain name

1. I tried to register my name as a domain. It was taken — by a parked page selling diet pills since 2003.

2. My startup's perfect domain was available! For $12,000. From a guy whose entire business model is "owning nouns."

3. I finally found an available .com domain. It was 47 characters long and contained three hyphens. My investors were thrilled.

4. The domain registrar said "This domain is available!" so I went to get coffee first. By the time I came back, someone had bought it. I suspect the registrar.

5. After 200 failed .com searches, I got creative and registered a .pizza domain. Now I run a fintech company at secureinvestments.pizza. Clients love the trust it inspires.