Very useful, but I'd like it to show more suggestions. Searching for common words results in only a few available domains, and hundreds of taken ones.
Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
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#92Black text on green background? Zee goggles, they do nothing! I always use http://instantdomainsearch.com I have no time waiting around for POST results. Consider AJAX as the next item on the TODO list.
If you know what you are searching. Lean domain search gives thousand suggestions at a time so it's faster than typing them one by one in IDS.
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#93I would enjoy being able to sort by color (availability etc) so I can quickly see a grouping of which ones are taken.
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#94I typed in a word and I got a bunch of domains that were already registered and not enough domains available. So obviously, get more domains available. It's a great service though, if you can make it more useful.
Hey, thanks for the feedback.
I added an option to doublecheck the availability when you click an available domain name. Hopefully this will save you a bit of energy.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Seems to be happening much more than 1% to me, every link I have clicked so far (6 or 7) has resulted in an already registered domain.
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#96One 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?
I'm curious. How much affiliate revenue (dollar wise) do you get when someone registers a domain through godaddy?
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#97Nice, but I can't enter numbers? Example 'HTML5'
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#98Great job and super fast results. It's great to have tons of inputs and tons of results, but we need a tool to get all these great results into a funnel that at the end you can easily spot a great name. Suggestions: 1) Modifiers to minimize results like max chars in the domain name. 2) Take the word or phrase the person typed in and throw it into reverse dictionary [1] and then take those results and re-run them thro…
Great suggestions -- thank you.
I just added an option to sort by length, which should take care of #1. #3 is also a great idea -- I'll see what I can do.
Can you walk me through how #2 would work in practice?
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#99I just did a search for $string and it returned 1000 available domain names that were all $something+$string or $string+$something. However, ($string).com was not returned as an option even though it is available!
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#100When 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…
"a) build it so that you can license the technology to people that have made a company "
Better yet a white label website that refers business back to the reseller or registrar and can be operated as a subdomain to the resellers or registrars main website ie suggest.registrarname.com. Do this on a monthly fee basis that is reasonable not per name registered.
"b) become a reseller or registrar so that you can fully deliver the service and collect the recurring revenue."
Reseller makes sense. Becoming a registrar doesn't. Using this as the cornerstone of an idea will never result in enough to cover the ongoing costs.