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Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search

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Re: Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search

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Post by draggnar »

I like how it returns so many options, but they are a bit hard to read with the green. I did a couple searches and never came across non-green listings, so why the colors? I still prefer the way bustaname.com is set up, although it seems to be getting dated now. Their weak point is recommendations I wouldn't have thought of, which seems to be the strong point of leandomainsearch.

Re: Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search

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Post by duck »

draggnar wrote: post #3

I like how it returns so many options, but they are a bit hard to read with the green. I did a couple searches and never came across non-green listings, so why the colors? I still prefer the way bustaname.com is set up, although it seems to be getting dated now. Their weak point is recommendations I wouldn't have thought of, which seems to be the strong point of leandomainsearch.

I agree... the green is hard to scan. Also, it would be nice to know what the "default" sort order represents. Seems more random than sorted. :)

Re: Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search

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Post by matt1 »

nirvana wrote: post #2

I don't know why the earlier link was killed... but this is a useful service, and frankly, I think much more relevant to startups than all the political links and partisan anti-Apple stuff that gets posted to the front page.

Thanks -- I had someone proofread the post earlier and he mentioned that I didn't have enough sexy numbers. Like, why would I post a graph showing the average search duration had doubled? Why even bring it up?

I responded that I wasn't trying to sell to TechCrunch here -- this is the data I have, some of it good (2,000 results!) and some of it not (average number of searches has not increased). It's issues like these that I think about when I'm trying (sometimes unsuccessfully) to fall asleep at night. And I'm guessing it's similar not-always-sexy-world-conquoring issues that keep most other startup founders up at night too.

Re: Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search

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Post by kanamekun »

Wow, this is an amazing service! Somehow I missed this the first time it was posted, but I'll definitely use this for all my domain hunting in the future.

I'm curious: how did you pick the "other keywords commonly found in domain names"?

Re: Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search

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Post by matt1 »

duck wrote: post #4
draggnar wrote: post #3

I like how it returns so many options, but they are a bit hard to read with the green. I did a couple searches and never came across non-green listings, so why the colors? I still prefer the way bustaname.com is set up, although it seems to be getting dated now. Their weak point is recommendations I wouldn't have thought of, which seems to be the strong point of leandomainsearch.

I agree... the green is hard to scan. Also, it would be nice to know what the "default" sort order represents. Seems more random than sorted. :)

I actually A/B tested the impact of a light vs a dark design on the number of searches folks made and the difference was negligible [1]. Agreed through that the default order is something that can be optimized and tested going forward.

[1] http://www.mattmazur.com/2012/02/ab-testing-a-light-vs-dark-...

Re: Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search

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Post by matt1 »

kanamekun wrote: post #6

Wow, this is an amazing service! Somehow I missed this the first time it was posted, but I'll definitely use this for all my domain hunting in the future. I'm curious: how did you pick the "other keywords commonly found in domain names"?

1) Get ahold of a zone file listing all the registered .com domain names

2) Pick five common words

3) Scan the zone file, noting which registered domain names start and end with one of those common words.

4) Now parse those results and pick the words that are joined with them to form domain names (ie, the prefixes and suffixes)

5) Scan the zone file, noting how many domain names start or end with those prefixes/suffixes

6) Filter that list for the ones that occur > n times

7) Randomize the resulting list of prefixes and suffixes so it's not sorted by popularity

8) Add 100 per week

Re: Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search

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Post by gravitronic »

I have seen LDS on HN a few times now.

I know generally the HN effect causes a lot of traffic when the post is active but very little increase in average traffic if you remove the days when a post is on HN frontpage.

What's your traffic look like on weeks without a HN post compared to weeks with a HN post?

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