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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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I searched for "player" ( http://www.leandomainsearch.com/search?q=player ) and every free (green) domain I click and do double check it says "Doh! Looks like makeplayer.com is actually NOT available"

Hey, there was a bug that caused every result to come back as "registered" when you clicked "Double check results". I fixed this so it shouldn't be quite so dismal now. Thanks for reporting this.

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

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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.

Great! Thank you!

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

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Black 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.

A the same time I'm totally turned off by getting like a 1000 results.

It would make more sense from a usability if I could then continue filtering the list down more and more.

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

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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.

As others have stated, it seems to be much more than 1%... and it absolutely must be zero if the service is to have any credibility.

Anyone can make a list of words: that's the trivial part. What you are "selling" (even if for free) is the capability to verify availability fast; you need to deliver on that promise for the whole thing to have any value.

I'd say the value is even negative when registered domains are shown as available, because then it's wasting users' time.

(Sorry to be blunt but I don't know how else to put it).

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

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I 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'm not affiliated with IDS at all, I just like their interface much more than any other domain name search tool I've ever tried including the OP. Yes IDS is a GoDaddy affiliate marketer but that doesn't mean I can't use their search function and then go register with whoever I want.

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

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I'm a fan of the filters that NXDom provides: http://www.nxdom.com/ I suppose it's as much about sorting as it is about filtering, actually. I particularly like their ability to sort by length and readability.

Hey, Added two filter options for ya'll: alphabetical and by length.

I love it. Looks like you've added at least one more registrar and a super-helpful "double check availability" feature.

Awesome!

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