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Show HN: Rewordious - Domain Thesaurus

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Post by richpalmer2 »

Ever have an idea for a domain name just to find out that it is already taken? Followed by spending too much time searching for available domains based off synonyms, when you should be focusing on building something? Yeah, us too.

You can now use Rewordious to: - Find synonyms based on up to three keywords (use brackets to keep a certain word static) - See what sites are available and which are already taken - Register your new domain (just GoDaddy for now, Moniker soon)

http://rewordio.us

This is our first weekend project since leaving our jobs in NYC to move to the Bay Area. It is something that has been rolling around in our heads for a while. If you have suggestions or enhancement ideas, let us know. If all goes well, you'll hopefully hear more from us in the future.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Rewordious - Domain Thesaurus

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Post by amattson »

I'm unsure whether it's because of the words I'm choosing, but there don't seem to be any really valuable suggestions in the list, and often the suggestions are themselves unavailable.

I like the thesaurus concept, but doesn't quite solve the problem of people parking any and every domain they can (if that can be solved, grrr). Perhaps breaking the words down to roots and culling new meanings out of those foundations would yield more interesting and useful results.

The idea of suggesting new terms and letting you know whether or not they're available is useful, but the thesaurus function doesn't seem to be as developed as, for example, visualthesaurus.com.

Re: Show HN: Rewordious - Domain Thesaurus

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Post by bgraves »

Looks like a good start, but I think your result set needs to be better.

For example, I searched for "[physics]book" hoping to get back results like "physicsfolio.com", "physicsreport.com", etc. My result was actually "physicsbook.com" -- which isn't even available.

So, the idea sounds great especially if you could create some intelligent parsing scripts and pull some good synonyms (possibly using the wordnik.com api?) then I think it would be another useful tool while searching for domain names.

Check http://www.wordnik.com/thesaurus/book for a good example of some synonyms for "book" which I'd love to see integrated with rewordio.us

For what it's worth, my favorite domain name whois tool is domaintyper.com -- consider integrating some of the features from that service (or even just the site mechanics) and I think you'd have a pretty decent product on your hands!

Re: Show HN: Rewordious - Domain Thesaurus

#5

Post by Johngibb »

bgraves wrote: post #4

Looks like a good start, but I think your result set needs to be better. For example, I searched for "[physics]book" hoping to get back results like "physicsfolio.com", "physicsreport.com", etc. My result was actually "physicsbook.com" -- which isn't even available. So, the idea sounds great especially if you could create some intelligent parsing scripts and pull some good synonyms (possibly using the wordnik.com api…

This was because there was no space between [physics] and book. I'm working on a fix to handle that case right now, but if you enter "[physics] book" you'll see the results you were looking for. Hope this helps!

- John (technical cofounder)

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Post by Johngibb »

Johngibb wrote: post #5
bgraves wrote: post #4

Looks like a good start, but I think your result set needs to be better. For example, I searched for "[physics]book" hoping to get back results like "physicsfolio.com", "physicsreport.com", etc. My result was actually "physicsbook.com" -- which isn't even available. So, the idea sounds great especially if you could create some intelligent parsing scripts and pull some good synonyms (possibly using the wordnik.com api…

This was because there was no space between [physics] and book. I'm working on a fix to handle that case right now, but if you enter "[physics] book" you'll see the results you were looking for. Hope this helps! - John (technical cofounder)

This is fixed. [physics]book will now work. Thanks for the suggestion!

Re: Show HN: Rewordious - Domain Thesaurus

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Post by bgraves »

Johngibb wrote: post #6
Johngibb wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was because there was no space between [physics] and book. I'm working on a fix to handle that case right now, but if you enter "[physics] book" you'll see the results you were looking for. Hope this helps! - John (technical cofounder)

This is fixed. [physics]book will now work. Thanks for the suggestion!

The results are MUCH better now....thanks for the direct attention! I love HN :)
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