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Wordlists

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By popular request, here are the word lists used on SaveSpell.

Note that the files have been compressed using gzip and are UNIX formated. Any decent text editor is necessary on Windows (Notepad won’t open them).

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New TLDs and new wordlists

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There was no news for a while, that doesn’t mean nothing happened.

As you may have seen, there are a few new top level domains and word lists which have been added during the last year:

TLDs:

  • .mobi
  • .us

Wordlists:

  • 4 characters domain names,
  • oxymoron,
  • and searched keywords

Also, membership is also possible where it is possible to add domain names into a watch list which is not subject to caching delays during update. Other features will come in the future. In addition, the users that registered before 2008-09-01 and never logged in have been removed, those are in most cases linked to incorrect e-mail addresses and never received their password.

An interesting detail regarding email addresses… about 34% of users never logged in (out of which 70% generated an email bounce: unknown email address, inexistent domain or mailbox full).

Have fun!

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Database failure

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The database server has been victim of a violent outage in the datacenter where monkeys like to switch off the power on the main switch.

It’s currently being checked and restored, which will take about 12 hours.

To avoid problems with the running database, I stopped the Web service on the web server.

SaveSpell.com will be back on Wednesday, October 17, 2007.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Maintenance

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You may have noticed some slowness over the last days, but be reassured, everything will be back in order soon.

Some maintenance is being performed on the database (new indexes, new collations and new tables).

Also, the HTTP daemon will be stopped for upgrades and tuning during the next hours.
Everything will be back in order when the poor server (it needs more RAM) will read and write several files.

You’ll find out that some new word list have been installed (searched keywords and phrases).