Nice tool.
The lookups may need to be fixed -- the first two "green" domains I clicked when searching for "mobile" were actually taken. However, "green" means available, right?
Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
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#52At first glance, looks pretty cool. However, I find the green of the available results to be quite painful to look at. Something like #B8FC9F looks a lot better, to me.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Gotcha -- I misunderstood.
For complicated reasons, sometimes a registered domain will show up as available. This should only happen in less than 1% of cases and I'm working on reducing it to zero.
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#54At first glance, looks pretty cool. However, I find the green of the available results to be quite painful to look at. Something like #B8FC9F looks a lot better, to me.
Interesting color. Anyone else have any recommendations on what to change the green domains to?
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#55When I see stuff like this, I always think "feature" not a company. There are two directions you can take this to avoid the "but its just a feature" issue - a) build it so that you can license the technology to people that have made a company out of selling domains (domainsbot.com is a great model to take a look at) b) become a reseller or registrar so that you can fully deliver the service and collect the recurring…
Fair points --
There should be a lot of value in being the first site people visit when searching for a domain name though. We'll see.
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#56Hey guys, About three years ago I built and launched Domain Pigeon, a web app that listed available web 2.0-style domain names each day [1]. The site did fairly well, but it was my first foray into web apps and I lacked the experience to grow it into something bigger. Eventually I moved on to other projects and closed Domain Pigeon down, which has been one of my biggest regrets. My original vision for Domain Pigeon i…
How are you bulk checking now? I've been in the industry a long time and it's always been a pain in the ass to do anything in bulk. I've had lists so big registrars didn't want to run them for me :( Using APIs really isn't an option when you have a million names and 1 per second limit. Automating a bulk checker, most of them disable/play with it after a certain number of times (so even at let's say 500, i might be ab…
I'm guessing zone files. If you load zone files into something quick to search like an indexed DB table, memcache, etc they are super fast. They are also inaccurate and give you false positives since a domain can be out of the zone for a multitude of reasons.
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#57I always feel more efficient just doing the search myself with http://instantdomainsearch.com
If you're going to spam, at least be more subtle about it?
I don't think it's spam. Instant Domain Search is a great site, but you still need to be creative in order to know what to search for. Lean Domain Search does it for you.
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#58Nice tool. The lookups may need to be fixed -- the first two "green" domains I clicked when searching for "mobile" were actually taken. However, "green" means available, right?
Thanks -- some registered show up as available and vice versa, an unfortunate side effect of the way I'm doing the searches. Am looking into reducing the error rate.
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#59This is really useful, but is there a reason why you are limiting the maximum length of the input to 20 characters? I already came across a few cases where I wanted to use a longer phrase.
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#60I wouldn't call your service a startup.
So, this is like my unfinished domsrch.com, my experience is that people don't really need this service this much and there are some others that already fill the space.
I definitely wish you to succeed where I failed :). I just wouldn't leave my day job which is why I am saying it isn't a startup.