Most people search for domain names the wrong way. They start with an idea generator, check domain availability, and when their perfect .com is taken, they either:

• Negotiate with the owner (if they respond)
• Use a domain broker service
• End up paying thousands of dollars

I've found a better way.

The Dropped Domains Opportunity

There's a better approach. Every day, tens of thousands of domains expire and get dropped because:

• Owners forget to renew them
• They're no longer interested
• The renewal price isn't worth it

While many dropped domains are worthless, some are gems. Finding them is like finding a needle in a haystack, but the advantages are significant:

1. Guaranteed availability - When you find a good dropped domain, you can get it immediately
2. Much cheaper - Usually $13 (renewal price), occasionally up to $50-100 if it hits auction
3. High quality possible - You can find genuinely good domain names

The Challenge

The main challenge is filtering through thousands of domains. Some domain connoisseurs spend hours daily reviewing domain lists - I'm not one of those people.

Enter LLMs

Here's the strategy I developed:

1. Take all available dropped domains

2. Apply basic filters:

   • Domain length (I use < 10 characters in length)
   • Extension (I just use .com)
   • Basic pattern matching (no dashes, numbers)

3. Feed the filtered list (still thousands) into an LLM with specific criteria like:

   • "Suitable for a tech startup"
   • "Easy to pronounce"
   • "Hard to misspell"
   • Any criteria that traditional filters can't handle (e.g. transliterates to Arabic)

4. Get notified when domains matching your criteria become available

Domains I've Found Using This Strategy

Here's a killer strategy that's often overlooked: searching for domains that transliterate to Arabic words. I've previously sold shoghol.com for $1,500 using this approach.

Recent catches using this filter, all at basic registration price ($13):

• istighfar.com - means "seeking forgiveness" in Arabic
• mroor.com - means "traffic" in Arabic
• wkala.com - means "delegation" in Arabic
• ghoroob.com = means "sunset" in Arabic

Try It Yourself

I've packaged this entire system into a service that lets you enter your own filters and get notified when domains matching your criteria become available. It's already helped me snag these and many other great domains for dirt cheap.

Note: I'll update this post with example domains once I have permission to share them.

I have a long list of ideas for things that I want to work on. A list that I will hopefully share at some point. But the core idea is that the best way to work through a list of ideas would have been to dedicate a solid chunk of time to actually implementing it. They become bigger events, there's a certain amount of work that needs to be done. That's typically a matter of days, weeks, possibly even months depending on the size of the project.

So it needs to clear a high bar before it can get my attention. And a lot of ideas just fall at the bar or even below and so they don't really pass they just stay lingering in a to do list that just keeps growing with time.

But now with AI and you know the availability of tools like Cursor and Lovable and others it's actually become a lot easier to build and launch projects and test them to see if they actually work. And of course this puts pressure on distribution for you to figure out like how you're actually going to grow a tool and that's something I'm still trying to figure out but we'll get to that later.

I'm going to be doing a bunch of experiments with distribution to figure out like how to do that effectively but right now the sort of focus for the first half of this year is how do we get more stuff done? How do you publish more?

On February 2nd, I woke up to my highest weight ever: 85.1 kilograms. Something clicked. Instead of setting a grand goal, I remembered advice from "Mini Habits" and "Atomic Habits" - start with tiny, daily habits that are impossible to fail.

The Mini Habit

I chose one simple question: "Was I hungry today?"

That's it. No diet plans. No calorie counting. Just checking if I felt genuine hunger at any point during the day.

Nine weeks in, I've lost nine kilograms - exceeding my initial expectations. But the real win isn't the weight loss. It's the fundamental shift in how I relate to food.

The Transformation

Before, hunger was an annoyance to silence immediately. Now, feeling hungry feels like winning. My baseline has shifted - I aim to maintain a slight hunger throughout the day rather than constantly feeling full.

Take ice cream: I used to eat two or three a day without thinking. I'd just eat them, feel a momentary sense of relief, and then go back to some sort of baseline. Now I have one in my fridge for two and a half weeks, untouched. Not because I'm resisting temptation, but because I don't crave it anymore. My satisfaction comes from feeling light and slightly hungry.

Why This Time is Different

This attempt feels fundamentally different from my previous weight loss attempts. Before, I was always working towards a goal - a number on the scale or a deadline. Once I hit that goal, I'd inevitably bounce back to my old habits. But this time, I'm not working towards an endpoint. I've changed my relationship with food itself.

The key difference is that I'm not resisting temptation or forcing myself to change. Instead, I've rewired what gives me satisfaction. Feeling slightly hungry throughout the day has become my new normal, and it feels good. I don't see this as a temporary state to endure until I hit some target weight - it's just how I live now.

Why Systems Beat Goals

This experience made me wonder: what other improvements could I make by focusing on systems rather than goals? As Scott Adams puts it in "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big": "If you do something every day, it's a system. If you're waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it's a goal."

What's Next?

Now that I've established this new relationship with food, I'm curious about applying the same systems-based approach to building muscle. Instead of setting ambitious lifting goals or following complex workout plans, I'm starting with one simple question: "Did I train one muscle group to failure today?"

I'll report back in a few months on how this experiment goes. But if the weight loss journey taught me anything, it's that the key isn't in the grand plans - it's in the tiny, daily habits that reshape how you think about the whole endeavor.