The search input box is long and it's not clear if you can but when the input box is long I suspect that I can type multiple words. I'd love to be able to write "fox or news" or "fox news or paper"
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
#102This is a great start. I built Instant Domain Search (IDS) almost 7 years ago, and have learnt a lot from the experience. Some quick thoughts: 1. There are no margins in the domain industry. Start thinking about building a hosting company. Your site is cool, but weebly.com and heroku.com are real businesses. I work full-time for Facebook, not IDS. (BTW, Facebook is hiring people like you, message me at http://www.fac…
Hey Beau, thanks for the feedback. I've always admired your work with Instant Domain Search and appreciate you taking the time to give me feedback on this.
When you say "there are no margins in the domain industry", I assume you're talking about registrars and how domain names don't make them money, hosting and other services do, yes? LDS is not a registrar; revenue is purely through the affiliate links. Assuming people use them, the margin on this should be decent. It's no Heroku or Weebly, but that's not necessarily the goal either.
There's definitely room for speed improvements; I'll be work on that over the next few weeks.
I'm not sure I want to partner with any of the aftermarkets just yet, but that's not a bad idea long term. And I definitely want to add thesaurus results.
Again, appreciate the feedback.
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#103The search input box is long and it's not clear if you can but when the input box is long I suspect that I can type multiple words. I'd love to be able to write "fox or news" or "fox news or paper"
Great idea -- will do.
Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
#104I'm afraid this doesn't stack up well to the existing tools our there. Here's a comparison of your results with the tool I use most often when searching for a domain: http://www.leandomainsearch.com/search?q=big+daddy http://www.domaintools.com/buy/domain-suggestions/?q=big+dad... Domaintools' name spinner just gives better results, and immediately tells me about availability for all the .tlds as well. So I guess ste…
Thanks for the feedback. Excluding the other TLDs, how are Domain Tools's results better? Looking through the 20 that you linked to, they seem much poorer than Lean Domain Search's, though I admit I am a bit bias. Also, IMO other TLDs do not make good website names. They confuse normal people, which is why I did not include them in the Lean Domain Search results.
The results are much poorer on Domain Tools, and other TLDs are generally worth less than .com's. Since your tool is called LEAN domain search. I would assume its for .com's which is mostly what 90% of the community looks for when looking for a domain. Otherwise they wouldn't turn to a tool like yours for help in finding a domain. Thus the whole comment that he made is mostly irrelevant. I think your tool does an extremely good job of displaying a lot of good names at a very fast pace. I wouldn't clutter down and slow the results with other TLDs.
Great work.
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#105Hey hey, wait a minute. I searched out Code ( http://www.leandomainsearch.com/search?q=Code ) and tried to register codejet.com ,which was shown available by you , but, it was already registered. Similarly, I tried to get Codehit and again, it failed. Could you please explain?
The results are not perfect.
I added a "doublecheck" link on the registration dialog box that allows you to confirm before following through to the registrar.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Same here, when I searched for "rpg".
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the feedback. Excluding the other TLDs, how are Domain Tools's results better? Looking through the 20 that you linked to, they seem much poorer than Lean Domain Search's, though I admit I am a bit bias. Also, IMO other TLDs do not make good website names. They confuse normal people, which is why I did not include them in the Lean Domain Search results.
The results are much poorer on Domain Tools, and other TLDs are generally worth less than .com's. Since your tool is called LEAN domain search. I would assume its for .com's which is mostly what 90% of the community looks for when looking for a domain. Otherwise they wouldn't turn to a tool like yours for help in finding a domain. Thus the whole comment that he made is mostly irrelevant. I think your tool does an ext…
Thanks, agreed on all points. Appreciate it.
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#108Great tool. I could see this being really useful when it comes time to register a domain name. Great design too. I am impressed with how quickly it checks 1000 domains. Care to share any of the technologies used to build it?
90% perspiration. :)
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#109Hey 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…
Based on a few tests, I think he's just doing DNS queries and assuming any NXDOMAIN response means a domain is unregistered, which is not always the case. Sure, users figure out the domain isn't available once they try to register it, but by then you've already dashed their hopes.
It's fine to use DNS queries as part of the checking process, but if you get a NXDOMAIN, you need to follow that up with some kind of check against a WHOIS server or root zone file (which is slower and harder to work with).
Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
#110Hey hey, wait a minute. I searched out Code ( http://www.leandomainsearch.com/search?q=Code ) and tried to register codejet.com ,which was shown available by you , but, it was already registered. Similarly, I tried to get Codehit and again, it failed. Could you please explain?
This is a case of his fast, DNS-based checking method not providing accurate results. You can see the difference by running nslookup and whois on the domain. Nslookup just uses DNS, whereas whois goes to the registrar/internic.
$ nslookup codejet.com
Server: 1.1.1.227 Address: 1.1.1.227#53
server can't find codejet.com: NXDOMAIN
$ whois codejet.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.
Domain Name: CODEJET.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: No nameserver
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientRenewProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 20-may-2011
Creation Date: 01-jun-2000
Expiration Date: 01-jun-2012