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> Also, wouldn’t a “1111dns4tor” prefix look better? :)

Yes, it would but the .onion addresses use base32 and '1' isn't in the alphabet used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32

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> but the .onion addresses use base32 and '1' isn't in the alphabet used

I see. Oh well, at least Google and Quad9 can’t, either (base32 digits stop at ‘7’).

You could have done IIIIdns4tor :)

It would be iiiidns4tor because, while base-32 is commonly implemented with capital letters, the onion service ID is lower cased.

Also, farming an onion with that many fixed characters takes a good few hundreds or thousands of years.

This is a v3 onion service, it should be easier to find prefixes, plus CF (and other companies like FB) have done pretty long prefixes via brute force (they have a lot of computers)

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