Show HN: My weekend project, A domain name hack and semi-mass domain search

#1

Post by thedevelopment » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 11:44 PM UTC

Hey HN, I was always sick of trying to find available domain names for other side projects, so I came up with this. It'll check availability of .com, .net and .org, as well as any domain name hacks available (gimpish -> gimpi.sh). It's Sinatra and EventMachine driven.

Enter a few words in the name field to try it out! e.g. apple, microsoft, reddit, purplemonkeydishwasher

Feedback muchly appreciated!

Show HN: My weekend project, A domain name hack and semi-mass domain search
domainsuitor.com

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, A domain name hack and semi-mass domain search

#2

Post by thedevelopment » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 11:46 PM UTC

Hey HN,

I was always sick of trying to find available domain names for other side projects, so I came up with this. It'll check availability of .com, .net and .org, as well as any domain name hacks available (gimpish -> gimpi.sh). It's Sinatra and EventMachine driven.

Enter a few words in the name field to try it out! e.g. apple, microsoft, ycombinator, purplemonkeydishwasher

Feedback muchly appreciated!

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, A domain name hack and semi-mass domain search

#3

Post by dam5s » Wed, Oct 20, 2010, 12:05 AM UTC

That is just... super fast, impressive !

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, A domain name hack and semi-mass domain search

#4

Post by westondeboer » Wed, Oct 20, 2010, 12:46 AM UTC

http://domai.nr/

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, A domain name hack and semi-mass domain search

#5

Post by DevX101 » Wed, Oct 20, 2010, 12:48 AM UTC

It's giving me wrong information for .org domains

On my first search, it shows chat.org and wizard.org as being available. Not so.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, A domain name hack and semi-mass domain search

#6

Post by DevX101 » Wed, Oct 20, 2010, 12:54 AM UTC

DevX101 wrote: post #5

It's giving me wrong information for .org domains On my first search, it shows chat.org and wizard.org as being available. Not so.

Hmm..just tried it again and now it shows them correctly as being as unavailable. Not sure what happened first time around.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, A domain name hack and semi-mass domain search

#7

Post by thedevelopment » Wed, Oct 20, 2010, 12:55 AM UTC

westondeboer wrote: post #4

http://domai.nr/

That's pretty cool, but slightly different. It's certainly a much more polished product =)

Where that's showing you a combination of words, my site instead looks up every word and checks it's availability.

I created my site to help with the brainstorming of site names to see what's available, but I can see how domai.nr would be used in a very similar way.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, A domain name hack and semi-mass domain search

#8

Post by thedevelopment » Wed, Oct 20, 2010, 12:58 AM UTC

DevX101 wrote: post #6

DevX101 wrote: post #5

It's giving me wrong information for .org domains On my first search, it shows chat.org and wizard.org as being available. Not so.

Hmm..just tried it again and now it shows them correctly as being as unavailable. Not sure what happened first time around.

It's using Ruby Whois (http://www.ruby-whois.org/) to do the queries, and it looks like the .org implementation is a bit flakey.

Thanks for the heads up and thanks for the feedback! I'll see if I can fix the issue.