Very neat service. Do you plan on adding other commission links , ie: not GoDaddy ?
Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search
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#12This is a great service. I've already registered a domain using it, and will do some more today. Congrats! I hope you make $1 million!
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#13I get a large number of false-positives and, interestingly enough, even more false positives for the same search term when searching from my iPhone.
As I click on them all, they stop appearing again, but this is quite an annoying experience. Do you default-to-available if your query to WHOIS times out and nobody has clicked to check that link before?
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#14I've used this tool but not yet purchased any of the favorites I saved. I knew a few domains I wanted to buy so went to LDS and opened up the link to the registrar from there so hopefully credit was given (can't freeload).
Only thing I'd change so far is maybe moving the search bar slightly higher on front page, make it and the button bigger and putting light grey text in the search box. But, you've probably thought of all of that already, just my personal style. Anyways, this has been my go to tool for searching for domains since I found it here a month or so ago. Thanks for building!
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#15Can you link to anyone besides GoDaddy? I'm sure you've noticed the many reasons around the tubes lately on why not to use them.
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#16Can you link to anyone besides GoDaddy? I'm sure you've noticed the many reasons around the tubes lately on why not to use them.
GoDaddy is the default because it's what most people use.
You can change it by clicking 'change your preferred registrar' link below the red button on the confirmation dialog.
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#17I get a large number of false-positives and, interestingly enough, even more false positives for the same search term when searching from my iPhone. As I click on them all, they stop appearing again, but this is quite an annoying experience. Do you default-to-available if your query to WHOIS times out and nobody has clicked to check that link before?
Hey, I actually figured out a way to fix this and will implement the change within the next several days. False positives should drop from around 10% to around 1% within two weeks.
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#18I 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?
Traffic is less on weeks when it's not featured on HN :)
Re: Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search
#19Very neat service. Do you plan on adding other commission links , ie: not GoDaddy ?
Thanks -- you can change the preferred registrar by clicking the 'change your preferred registrar' link below the red registration button.
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#20I've used this tool but not yet purchased any of the favorites I saved. I knew a few domains I wanted to buy so went to LDS and opened up the link to the registrar from there so hopefully credit was given (can't freeload). Only thing I'd change so far is maybe moving the search bar slightly higher on front page, make it and the button bigger and putting light grey text in the search box. But, you've probably thought…
Glad you like it -- I built it to solve one of my own major pain points: it's very hard and time consuming finding quality available domain names for the products I build.
As far as the search bar positioning, I'll play around with it and see if an A/B test or two indicates it has an impact. Appreciate the recommendation.