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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 ark15 »

matt1 wrote: post #28
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…

Magic (and a lot of experimentation).

Good concept, congrats on this getting out, etc. but...

http://www.leandomainsearch.com/search?q=think

I clicked on five random ones marked available but always got '... is not really available' when I clicked 'Double check availability of this domain'

If there was a checkbox that said 'take more time but be sure of the available ones before showing me the report', I would have checked it.

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

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Post by moonlighter »

matt1 wrote: post #28
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…

Magic (and a lot of experimentation).

Good answer, don't give away your secret sauce. Having said that, your magic isn't working too well. I searched for http://www.leandomainsearch.com/search?q=apps and literally EVERY SINGLE GREEN hit isn't really available after double-checking it. Seems like you'd need a 2nd secret sauce to further distill whatever the 1st run returned.

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

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Post by toodlestech »

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?

When you search for a domain using godaddy the register that domain so you have to purchase through them. They even use to jack up the price on those domains. When doing a "double check" on your site, every case i tried, it said that the domain was actually already registered, which I'm assuming is from the search on godaddy. So that cuts out the other two registrars you offer right there.

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

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Post by mickeyp »

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?

It's too sharp on a black background with black text. On a high-end display it's just too.. rich a colour. I'd use pastels personally.

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Post by int3rnaut »

I like this. It's really cool. One idea that could be really beneficial is if you crawl auction sites/domain selling sites, and create a subcategory for domains that are for trying to be sold. You've got the registared domains already, but it would be so helpful to see which of those are "available to be had" so to speak.

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

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Post by mkolodny »

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…

> When I see stuff like this, I always think "feature" not a company.

People thought that about search too until Google came along.

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

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Post by matt1 »

moonlighter wrote: post #122
matt1 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Magic (and a lot of experimentation).

Good answer, don't give away your secret sauce. Having said that, your magic isn't working too well. I searched for http://www.leandomainsearch.com/search?q=apps and literally EVERY SINGLE GREEN hit isn't really available after double-checking it. Seems like you'd need a 2nd secret sauce to further distill whatever the 1st run returned.

Hey -- there was a production bug that caused every result to come back as registered when you clicked "Double check availability". I fixed this a few minutes ago. Sorry about that.
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