Kwyjibo: automatic domain name generation

  • Authors:
  • Heather Crawford;John Aycock

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alta., Canada T2N 1N4;Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alta., Canada T2N 1N4

  • Venue:
  • Software—Practice & Experience
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Automatically generating ‘good’ domain names that are random yet pronounceable is a problem harder than it first appears. The problem is related to random word generation, and we survey and categorize existing techniques before presenting our own syllable-based algorithm that produces higher-quality results. Our results are also applicable elsewhere, in areas such as password generation, username generation, and even computer-generated poetry. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.