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Clickable link: http://boardlite.com/ I like the look, it is clean and simple. One small glitch: it seems that on the page http://boardlite.com/category/computers/list/ some vertic…

Point taken. I have now integrated the display of taken (and parked and error) top level domains again, trying to make it useful but not too distracting.

Clickable link: http://www.nxdom.com/

Writing may help you more than reading, especially if you can find somebody to give feedback. Maybe start a blog or contribute to a magazine? I'm not a native English speaker, but …

I call myself "Founder" in the context of my current solo project, even if that project is not really a "startup" or "company". As the legal term I use "Sole Proprietor": http://en…

www.nxdom.com is my brainstorming tool for short available domain names. I'm trying to eliminate scrolling and show similar names together. How do you like the condensed display fo…

Thank you, I see what you mean. The headline wraps because the font is too wide on Ubuntu (in Firefox too), hope to fix it soon.

My interactive search engine for short available domains: http://www.nxdom.com/ I'm working to bring the advanced weighted sort order back, but optional so that new users can play …

Good question, so I wrote a blog post: http://nxdom.posterous.com/why-is-nxdom-open-source

Yes, that was the previous version that I announced here on January 1st. I figured that usability is more important than fine-grained control over the score weights, because the so…

Because it's a search engine for short names, using a large database of unused and expired domain names. Try searching for "hack" + "ne", or "hack" + "e" for even more results.

Actually, I have now enabled the search indexes for the following prefix+suffix combinations: 4+1, 3+2, 3+1, 2+1, 2+2, 1+1, 1+2, 1+3, 2+3, 1+4. I may add longer combinations later,…

Yes, I know the combined prefix and suffix search doesn't work properly yet. The reason is that the App Engine datastore doesn't support fancy search, only sorting with custom inde…

Thank you all for the great feedback! 1) You're right, but the boxes (and columns of numbers) are probably going to disappear in the next version. Maybe we'll have sliders or radio…

You're right. At some point I'm going to start using http://getsatisfaction.com/ or think about moderation/filtering. But for now I really like the direct feedback from users, so I…

Congratulations to our first customer! Since my post on HN we had 612 hits on moniker.com, with 1 conversion for $0.31 commission. I also spent $1.60 today for 22.43 CPU hours on G…

Because we can't run DNS queries inside Google App Engine. Instead, I query the DNS results from my home computer and feed them into the datastore using remote_api.

Yes, that would be interesting because the startup time for loading the zipped Django 1.1 package is significant. Maybe app-engine-patch can be tweaked to use_library()?

I understand that's annoying, and hope to improve it. The system reports digit.com free because it doesn't have an A record, but I will fix this by checking SOA records in the futu…

My list is a fairly random sampling of the huge search space of available domain names. I'm planning to keep adding more names in the future, trying to strike a balance between goo…

Because app-engine-patch includes more than just a zipped package of Django 1.1. It comes with jQuery, the Blueprint CSS framework, a media generator to join and minify your CSS an…