What's a "betalupi?"

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Beta Lupi is a solar system on the Endless Sky galaxy map, which is the first place I look whenever I need to name a server.

Stellar names (especially those of Arabic origin) make pretty good hostnames: they're meaningless (in English), they sound interesting, and the "hyperlanes" that connect them in titles like Endless Sky and Stellaris look a lot like a network topology.

Beta Lupi also happens to be a real star in the southern constellation of Lupus (wiki), but that's not particularly important.

A snippet of the Endless Sky map is below.

In other words: Try finding a .com domain that...

• Isn't already taken
• Doesn't sound awful
• Isn't owned by a scalper that's selling it for $300