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Show HN: Ishim – find available one-word domain names

#1

Post by docuru » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 10:59 AM UTC

Show HN: Ishim – find available one-word domain names
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Re: Show HN: Ishim – find available one-word domain names

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Post by docuru » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 11:01 AM UTC

Hi guys, I developed a tool to check and find domain names and have been using it for some time. Now, I put them into an application (for MacOS at the moment).

This Domain Tool can help you:

- Find one-word names (support English, Spanish, Dutch, and French)

- Bulk check those names with the flexible option with extensions

Available for MacOS, Windows and Linux

Why a desktop app? I used some name suggestion web app and someday, they just went offline or disappear.

Hope you find it useful. Feedback and question are welcome

Re: Show HN: Ishim – find available one-word domain names

#3

Post by lerela » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 2:00 PM UTC

Unimportant but it is a bit misleading coming from a Linux browser to only see Download for Windows & Mac call-to-actions. I thought it was incompatible before I saw the top right penguin. You might wanna use the User-Agent to show a more relevant CTA.

Re: Show HN: Ishim – find available one-word domain names

#4

Post by pwdisswordfish8 » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 2:04 PM UTC

"TLDs", not "extensions". I wince when I see the latter, similar (but not the same) as when people say "backslash" when referring to ordinary solidus.

The great domainsfortherestofus.com used to exist, but seems to have gone offline in the last couple of months.

Re: Show HN: Ishim – find available one-word domain names

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Post by junon » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 2:05 PM UTC

Is this another electron app? Why? This is 100% doable in the browser and has been done before with other sites. Why do I need to spend 300MiB of ram to search for domain names?

Sorry to sound negative, it's just... the electron fad is getting really old.

Re: Show HN: Ishim – find available one-word domain names

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Post by docuru » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 2:07 PM UTC

lerela wrote: post #3

Unimportant but it is a bit misleading coming from a Linux browser to only see Download for Windows & Mac call-to-actions. I thought it was incompatible before I saw the top right penguin. You might wanna use the User-Agent to show a more relevant CTA.

Thanks, using User-Agent is a good idea. I'm using a site builder and don't think it's available yet.

I'll add a proper link to linux

Re: Show HN: Ishim – find available one-word domain names

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Post by ERD0L » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 2:15 PM UTC

So why not a website with an opened-sourced git so it can't "go offline" ?

Was there any other motivations to go electron, maybe to learn idk

Re: Show HN: Ishim – find available one-word domain names

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Post by lerela » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 2:15 PM UTC

After a few tests it looks good but it reports some domains as registered when they are not (for instance kostikaable.com or kostikaition.io are marked registered but do not seem to exist when I manually run a Whois). Maybe the tool is running onto some rate limiting thresholds?

Also when there are a lot of domains to check you could check them in parallel, otherwise it gets quite slow to wait for the results (but that might be an inherent limitation of the Whois servers).

Re: Show HN: Ishim – find available one-word domain names

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Post by dirtybirdnj » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 2:20 PM UTC

Hate to dogpile on this but why the app?

Not trying to hate on you, genuinely curious why you chose this route. Sometimes using the tools you are most comfortable with at the time is the path to the highest short term productivity.

Re: Show HN: Ishim – find available one-word domain names

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Post by windock » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 2:20 PM UTC

pwdisswordfish8 wrote: post #4

"TLDs", not "extensions". I wince when I see the latter, similar (but not the same) as when people say "backslash" when referring to ordinary solidus. The great domainsfortherestofus.com used to exist, but seems to have gone offline in the last couple of months.

I had to double check it. Backslash is called “reverse solidus” in unicode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash