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Find a Great Domain Name (Beta code is YCOMBINATOR)

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Re: Find a Great Domain Name (Beta code is YCOMBINATOR)

#11
If you've got all the data stored off up-front, the search should be near-instant. As-is, it's nearly unusably slow.

However, if the delay is caused by hitting the network for each search result on the backend (or something along those lines), maybe it would be nice to quickly return an initial barebones dataset and then the browser could do an async fetch of each record's details.

Re: Find a Great Domain Name (Beta code is YCOMBINATOR)

#12
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Really fun site. I think it is helpful. I did, however, think the list that was returned was too long by default. Maybe leave off the unavailable one?

My comment applies to the Name Spinner.

You should be able to just edit your parent comment (for awhile longer at least).

Re: Find a Great Domain Name (Beta code is YCOMBINATOR)

#13
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caveat: I created a similar site called domainjig.com, so take these as friendly suggestions. The expired domain search is cool, well done with this tool. Make it faster. Right now, loading the page to search for availability is taking longer than 10 seconds. When searching using the different tools, the response comes back after a few seconds delay. If you're comfortable discussing it, what are the major components…

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Re: Find a Great Domain Name (Beta code is YCOMBINATOR)

#14
Awesome comments and thanks to all for the suggestions. We've got an awesome list and we'll start implementing.

Apologies for the slow expired domain search. The server is getting NAILED and we're obviously not equipped to handle the scale yet. I'll use the excuse: Hey - we're in Beta!

So we're working on the scale issue as we speak. Hope to have instant searches back ASAP.

For those who asked - site is built on the LAMP stack.

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