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Re: Ask HN: What do you think of our new domain name generator?

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Post by code_duck »

renualdo wrote: post #4
hessenwolf wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not quite in order... 1. Splits & domain hacks. My partner in crime will be happy you said that - we will add. Prob at least a week though. 2. Orange - yes - means that they are unavailable. We can add a comment to make that more clear. If you click on an orange link, you get a 'more like this' effect where we search with the underlying phrase. 3. .com. Valid point - a bit like the domain hacks I didn't think people…

Told you man, it's all about the domain hacks these days :), seriously though, noone really wants a .net do they?

Only if they want clari.net or bassi.net, I guess?

Re: Ask HN: What do you think of our new domain name generator?

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Post by hessenwolf »

code_duck wrote: post #10

I like how it searches synonyms and homophones. One thing you might add is plurals.

We are pluralising nouns only - but the selection of nouns is limited by our grammar db. It should have been around 4th/5th result, depending on the number of search words.

Have you got the example and we can look into it?

Re: Ask HN: What do you think of our new domain name generator?

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Post by code_duck »

hessenwolf wrote: post #12
code_duck wrote: post #10

I like how it searches synonyms and homophones. One thing you might add is plurals.

We are pluralising nouns only - but the selection of nouns is limited by our grammar db. It should have been around 4th/5th result, depending on the number of search words. Have you got the example and we can look into it?

Sure, the word 'tool' doesn't yield any result with 'tools'.

Re: Ask HN: What do you think of our new domain name generator?

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Post by hessenwolf »

sandipagr wrote: post #13

It's good work. Coming up with a name is the hardest part. It would be nice to have simple filters like no hyphens in name and domain length limit. Also, some way of separating unavailable domains will be great.

We can add a sort by domain length - you will get a completely different sequence of results. At the moment it is sorted by top n results from each algorithm (eight algos so far).

Hyphens - there is only ever one result.

Separating the unavailable - second person who asked - Renualdo is working on this as I type. (now I must go back to fixing the plurals)

Re: Ask HN: What do you think of our new domain name generator?

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Post by renualdo »

Charuru wrote: post #9

Show 2 columns, separate the orange and the blue, so I don't have to look at the unavailable.

I was thinking of having a show/hide taken domains checkbox above the list and/or a site-wide preference if you never, ever want to see the taken ones.

The idea of showing the taken ones is that they might be close to expiring and valuable to you somehow.

Re: Ask HN: What do you think of our new domain name generator?

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Post by hessenwolf »

code_duck wrote: post #14
hessenwolf wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are pluralising nouns only - but the selection of nouns is limited by our grammar db. It should have been around 4th/5th result, depending on the number of search words. Have you got the example and we can look into it?

Sure, the word 'tool' doesn't yield any result with 'tools'.

Voila. Yeah - our grammar db had a really limited list of plurals. Now I just find everything word where a variant exists ending in 's' or 'es' from our everywordevereverever table (not called that).

tl;dr; tool gives tools.

Re: Ask HN: What do you think of our new domain name generator?

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Post by hessenwolf »

renualdo wrote: post #8
hessenwolf wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bug identified... almost fixed.

fixed, although the availability checks are offline, this is by design, checking the availability inline is just a horrible experience, even using batched Asynchronous lookups. Perhaps we can do something similar to Skyscanner and do the check only if you're interested in a particular domain.

Update: Found another anomaly. Whois needs to be offline for performance reasons. We will refine it - but it should be 99.9% correct now.

It is 6 stages to grep, sed, diff, sort, uniq, and import the files into our whois db so it will be a couple of days potentially before I track the .01% down.

Re: Ask HN: What do you think of our new domain name generator?

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Post by Charuru »

renualdo wrote: post #16
Charuru wrote: post #9

Show 2 columns, separate the orange and the blue, so I don't have to look at the unavailable.

I was thinking of having a show/hide taken domains checkbox above the list and/or a site-wide preference if you never, ever want to see the taken ones. The idea of showing the taken ones is that they might be close to expiring and valuable to you somehow.

Well yes, I do think that unavailable domains can be sometimes useful, that's why I said separate into 2 columns.
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