Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool

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Post by alfg » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 9:16 PM UTC

Very easy, fast and useful. Thanks. Bookmarked.

Minor misspelling on the contact link.

Re: Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool

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Post by volodymyr_f » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 9:22 PM UTC

pudo wrote: post #7

Love the tool. Since the "Propose it" link doesn't seem to work for me, here's a feature request: can you put the query in the hash fragment so that I can paste this into an email or chat?

Thanks for the great feature request! Will work on that.

Re: Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool

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Post by karl_gluck » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 9:24 PM UTC

Wow! Great work. If I had a request, it would be to support more exotic TLDs and other registrars--but it's amazingly useful as-is. The price comparison is killer; I had no idea I could register a .TV domain for 10 bucks. I'll definitely be using this.

Is your VPS doing the DNS lookup, or is that client side? If it's done on your server, I would suggest that the site preview feature could be made click-activation rather than automatic. It's already pretty slow to load, and I would be just as happy with a link to open an unavailable domain in a new window. Basically, if the preview slows down the domain availability lookup, I think it should be pushed to a lower priority.

Overall, very slick! Congrats on a successful side-project.

Re: Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool

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Post by volodymyr_f » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 9:30 PM UTC

edwintorok wrote: post #10

volodymyr_f wrote: post #2

Hi Everyone, This is a domain availability checking tool with a simple clean design, a website preview for taken domains and a price comparison for the available ones. Some details about the used technologies are in my blog post at http://floreskul.name/post/introducing-instantname-me . I would appreciate any feedback. :) Thanks

How can I specify custom ccTLDs to check?

You can just type the domain name with ccTLD included, e.g. "google.us". It will show in the top row.

Re: Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool

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Post by timdorr » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 9:30 PM UTC

Neat, but I like http://domai.nr/ better because it shows interesting TLDs that would make my domain be one word. For instance, it suggests tim.do/rr for my username.

Re: Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool

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Post by JoshTriplett » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 9:35 PM UTC

Very nice! Much like instantdomainsearch, but with much broader TLD coverage.

Your pricing for Gandi seems incorrect; for instance, Gandi charges $15.50/year for .com domains, not $18.54.

Sad that this still points people at GoDaddy as the cheapest option; you get what you pay for, and GoDaddy has numerous well-known problems (in their policies on how they (don't) support you if they get a complaint, and in their many distasteful actions as a company).

You might also consider doing the obvious domain hack searches, at least for exact matches: if the term the user typed in ends with a valid TLD, drop that suffix and search for that term with that TLD. For instance, for the term "exampleio", since it ends in "io", show the result for "example.io" and label it "domain hack" on the left (where you show the labels for "exact match", "gTLD", and "ccTLD").

Re: Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool

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Post by _yb » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 9:39 PM UTC

Looks good. 2 things I would add: - automatically exit the "getting website preview" on taking the mouse off the div. - an X or some way to close the website preview thing (once website preview loaded). Good luck!

Re: Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool

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Post by crisnoble » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 9:45 PM UTC

I particularly like the idea that it will preview the website on hover. I will probably like it even more once it actually works!

Re: Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool

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Post by volodymyr_f » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 9:46 PM UTC

karl_gluck wrote: post #13

Wow! Great work. If I had a request, it would be to support more exotic TLDs and other registrars--but it's amazingly useful as-is. The price comparison is killer; I had no idea I could register a .TV domain for 10 bucks. I'll definitely be using this. Is your VPS doing the DNS lookup, or is that client side? If it's done on your server, I would suggest that the site preview feature could be made click-activation rat…

Thank your for the detailed feedback!

You can get the availability for most of the known TLD if you specify the fully qualified domain name in the input. I am going to tune the list of the shown TLDs in order to have the most popular/interesting ones there.

Which registrars would you like to be added?

Re: Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool

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Post by volodymyr_f » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 10:02 PM UTC

JoshTriplett wrote: post #16

Very nice! Much like instantdomainsearch, but with much broader TLD coverage. Your pricing for Gandi seems incorrect; for instance, Gandi charges $15.50/year for .com domains, not $18.54. Sad that this still points people at GoDaddy as the cheapest option; you get what you pay for, and GoDaddy has numerous well-known problems (in their policies on how they (don't) support you if they get a complaint, and in their man…

Thank you for your feedback and the great idea about the domain hacks implementation. :)

The prices are shown with the included taxes and ICANN fees, which all registrars calculate a bit differently. I tried to make them as much comparable as possible. The total price for .com domain at Gandi.net is indeed 18.54 (https://www.gandi.net/domain/price/detail/com/)

Which other registrars would you like to be included?