Listed a domain that was taken :p
Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
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Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
#32I really like it, but it's giving me plenty of results for domains that are already taken: http://www.leandomainsearch.com/search?q=commerce
Some searches only result in a few available domain names. There's not much I can do about that other than generate and check more domain names (which I will in the future). It's the nature of whatever you're searching for; commerce (and most other money-related searches) will be saturated.
I don't think that's what the parent is saying. It would seem that domains that you say are available for the .com gTLD actually are not.
Maybe you count as "available", domains for which the .com is taken but other gTLDs are not?
Personally when I search for a domain I'm only interested in .com, but maybe you could let users choose what TLDs they care about?
Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
#33One modest suggestion—I would remove GoDaddy from the default list of registrars that appear when a user selects a name they are interested in.
I knew this would come up :) I am relying on affiliate revenue for income and like it or not, GoDaddy is the largest registrar in the world. That doesn't mean its inclusion is automatic, but IMO GoDaddy is not evil enough to warrant removing it. Thoughts?
Perhaps adding a couple other options so that GoDaddy isn't so prominent.
With only GoDaddy and NameCheap (who I love, btw), it's likely to give a lot of business to GoDaddy from people who don't really have a preference or know much about them.
I understand your point about affiliate revenue, whatever my personal opinion about GoDaddy might be. Personally, I do think they're evil enough to warrant removal, but I'm just one person, and it's your site.
Adding more registrars might be a reasonable compromise.
Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
#34Very cool. How are you getting the results? I've seen this happen with domainr too but there seems to be some errors.
For example, "fotoflow" is listed as an available domain name but it is actually taken.
In any case, this is a very useful tool - thanks for posting.
Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
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Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
#36Is this using twitter bootstrap? It looks like it is, but not sure...either way, love the design! Also, why did you shut the pigeon one down?
Not using Twitter bootstrap.
I shut it down for a few reasons, primarily because Preceden (http://www.preceden.com), the tool I built after it, was doing quite well and I wasn't disciplined enough at the time to run two sites at once. Live and learn.
Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
#37Nice tool, I was looking for something like this a few weeks ago and most didn't "just work".
A few things I noticed while using other services -- none had all of these in one place:
- It would be handy to be able to sort by number of characters, etc.
- some places allow adding of common prefixes/suffixes
- Can you do a search of more than 1000 keywords via button to do the next 1000?
- In the case of searching a common word, I only got ~30 available domains out of 1000, it would be great if you automatically threw another 1000 behind it.
- Another registrar a lot of people use is moniker. Whatever I register through your site I'll use the referral link because you're saving me time
Nice app, I've bookmarked it!
Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
#38Nice tool, although the results seem to be a bit incorrect in some situations. I've searched for "hotel" and got a nice list of "available" domains, but some of them were already registered (eg. hotelbit.com, hotelartist.com, buzzhotel.com)
Good thing is I also got some very interesting domain names which were indeed available, so kudos for the nice work.
Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
#39I'm seeing something odd with the way you're building the results HTML - on Safari 5.1.2 text search doesn't pick up the majority of instances of a string.
For example, the term you're searching against is only showing up 4 times, when it appears over 1000. It works fine in Chrome 16.
It's useful for times when you see a name you like but want to find the reverse combination.
Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
#40First impressions: http://i.imgur.com/gOeyj.png
Superior in practice: http://www.bustaname.com/word_maker
Though I prefer where you've started.
Also, your favicon is... suggestive of something entirely different. Perhaps a less literal image would be better?