It's very awesome.
One thing that would be very cool... is regex support? :D
But barring that, a "contains" box. I.e. if I don't care if the website starts with cat or ends with cat, as long as cat is in there somewhere.
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#22Simply awesome. I must have used every single domain name search app there is and this is by far the best
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#23Want to start a dating site? everymate.com is available
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#24This is amazing work. Congratulations.
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#25Idk what else to say except Awesome :D
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#26I really like the new setup. It's much less confusing than it was before. I've used it every few days since you first announced it here - it's pretty fun to play around with. I don't know how feasible it is to do this, but instead of prefix and suffix, I would really like to be able to use wildcards in my search. For example, say I'm looking for a domain that starts with the word "dog" and ends with "cat" or "cats";…
I third the wildcard and make it represent multiple missing letters, not just one letter per wildcard.
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#27I didn't set any prefix or suffix and instead just selected all the radio buttons. Now I get it, but at first I was confused why no results are coming up.
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#28Want to start a dating site? everymate.com is available
How about an Aussie-targeted site for finding drinking buddies? :-P
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 indexes. All results for a GQL query must be adjacent in the index. The indexes for combined prefix+suffix search are still building but should be ready in a few days.
Until that happens, you could reduce it to a single field and show results for both types of searches. I found the prefix/suffix thing pretty confusing.
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, but for now they will be shortened and filtered, e.g. 5+3 will use cached 4+1 and then filter the results in the browser with JavaScript.
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#30Fantastic work! Just curious, why does it not return any results for long strings? For example, putting "hacker" in the Beginning box and "ne" in the Ending box yields no results.
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.