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Re: Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI

#72
post #36

Surprisingly great suggestions. However, it shows some .coms to be available when they're not. Either way, neat work!

Shameless plug - I made a site that lets you track taken domain names and will email you if they ever become available. Site is called skinny domain .com Is it ok to post my own site here? Feel free to tell me if I should remove this.

It should be fine to post about your own projects, as long as it is

- in context

- not excessive

- and you make clear that you are involved

So this looks all good ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I suggest editing your link somewhat because the space between skinny and domain can be confusing aha.

Re: Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI

#73

"A dating platform that can only be accessed through a rather complex command line tool" yields: LoveShell.com

Ironically I met my GF online because I mentioned I was a Lisp developer and it turns our so was she.

Not surprisingly it turned out we knew a lot of people in common, so it's surprising that we hadn't previously met. Sounds like you might have a good dating niche.

Re: Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI

#75
post #43

Genius way to harvest lots of business ideas!

Thanks, although I am not currently recording the queries or their responses. I thought it was more valuable to make something interesting and useful than to harvest it on day one.

Maybe you're pulling in enough dough with the affiliate link you have for DNSimple (https://dnsimple.com/r/95b95efe3e04ad) to not really feel the need?

Re: Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI

#76
Great app! Why don’t link to a registrar? You would earn some money and it’s convenient for users like me who actually just found a good domain name!

PS: actually, it suggested “gettalent.com” was available (green), but it isn’t.

Re: Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI

#80

Update: Apologies to anyone who doesn't get the red/green light on .com availability. I hit API rate limit on that function and quickly updating the backend to use a different API. Will be done shortly!

You could just do WHOIS queries instead of API. That should be relatively accurate. EX https://pypi.org/project/python-whois/ You don't need to actually care about what it says, just if there is a record returned or not.

Pretty much all whois providers forbid this. For example, in a whois response for a .com domain, the output includes this:

> TERMS OF USE: You are not authorized to access or query our Whois database through the use of electronic processes that are high-volume and automated except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations...

Since they aren't registering domain names or modifying existing registrations, their use would be prohibited by these terms of use.

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