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		viggity on April 4, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Domain name searching on further thought, it doesn't matter than it will match underscores, because the list of domains shouldn't have any underscores in them, but you would still want to look for underscores (maybe) `^nano[\w-]+\w+.com$`

tdavis on April 4, 2009 [–]

Unless the service was in the habit of selling impossible domain names, it shouldn't matter ;)

I intentionally left out the hyphen because it isn't a very desirable character.

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