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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

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Post by gravitronic »

matt1 wrote: post #50
gravitronic wrote: post #47

Hey guys, I'm not sure what your backend looks like but I wrote this python script that uses a thesaurus lookup to find similar words for further name inspiration. It also has support for dropping vowels if the user wants. Pass me your email address if you'd like a copy, I'm not doing anything with it.

I'd like to check it out. matt@leandomainsearch.com FWIW, I plan on adding an option to automatically search for synonyms down the road.

I just pushed it to my github in case anyone else wants a copy. It uses commandline whois so it's not really useful for a website implementation.

https://github.com/gravitronic/DFind

Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

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Post by gravitronic »

matt1 wrote: post #54
tnorthcutt wrote: post #52

At 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?

Look for a palette you like here:

http://www.colourlovers.com/

Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

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Post by mapster »

Does this work? My search for my new recipe site noshpoop.com turned up 1000 variations but noshpoop.com was not one of them. It is clearly available though - though I am sure hacker grabbed it by now ;) Seriously though, the results didn't show my request as the 1st option.

Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

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Post by leak »

freejack wrote: post #45

When 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…

Out of curiosity, would you call imgur a feature or a company?

Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

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Post by matt1 »

mmccaff wrote: post #59

This 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.

As a website operator, you should not use domain names that are that long. And the search results don't render well :)

Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

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Post by tnorthcutt »

matt1 wrote: post #26
jaysonelliot wrote: post #23

One 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?

IMO GoDaddy is not evil enough to warrant removing it.

IMO, they are evil enough to warrant removal.

Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

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Post by larrys »

oborseth wrote: post #56
ohashi wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can do the initial search in the zone file and then if it doesn't appear there you hit the Verisign registry whois (for .com and .net). The amount of times the domain doesn't appear in the zone file is nominal.

Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

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Post by brador »

matt1 wrote: post #57
bronson wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's spam. The search goes straight to godaddy to check using an affiliate link.
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