The Perfect Domain Name • Hacker News Board

Re: The Perfect Domain Name

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Post by nothanks » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 7:26 PM UTC

brianbreslin wrote: post #9

berberous wrote: post #7

Worthless article: Register twitter/facebook/g+ of your domain. Duh

i agree, can't believe this was on the front page.

http://www.google.com/search?q=first+world+problem+meme

Anyone with Photoshop and a few minutes of spare time?

Re: The Perfect Domain Name

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Post by carlsednaoui » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 8:58 PM UTC

ajaymehta wrote: post #4

sarbogast wrote: post #3

Then we need a tool that mashes up domai.nr, twitter, facebook and Google+ API's and tells us which name is available on all 4.

I believe this approaches what you're looking for: http://namechk.com/

Sweet interface!

Re: The Perfect Domain Name

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Post by carlsednaoui » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 9:00 PM UTC

berberous wrote: post #7

Worthless article: Register twitter/facebook/g+ of your domain. Duh

Sounds obvious, but you'd be surprised at the amount of people that don't check social networks prior to buying a domain name.

Re: The Perfect Domain Name

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Post by carlsednaoui » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 9:00 PM UTC

eurleif wrote: post #2

Also, if the Twitter handle is available, register is first! If you try to register the domain first, a bot will often grab the Twitter handle.

Ha, didn't know about that - good tip!

Re: The Perfect Domain Name

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Post by ctbon » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 9:29 PM UTC

ajaymehta wrote: post #4

sarbogast wrote: post #3

Then we need a tool that mashes up domai.nr, twitter, facebook and Google+ API's and tells us which name is available on all 4.

I believe this approaches what you're looking for: http://namechk.com/

Similarly try namecheck.com

It searches the main social sites for handles but also searches for domains and trademarks.

Re: The Perfect Domain Name

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Post by rickette » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 10:03 PM UTC

ajaymehta wrote: post #4

sarbogast wrote: post #3

Then we need a tool that mashes up domai.nr, twitter, facebook and Google+ API's and tells us which name is available on all 4.

I believe this approaches what you're looking for: http://namechk.com/

Perhaps it's just me but I'm always a bit hesitant to use third party domain checkers. I can't speak for namechk.com but who says the owner of such service isn't logging all entries?

Whenever I want to verify whether a domain is available I use the official whois servers.

Re: The Perfect Domain Name

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Post by rickette » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 10:09 PM UTC

carlsednaoui wrote: post #12

ajaymehta wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe this approaches what you're looking for: http://namechk.com/

Sweet interface!

Indeed, also I can't believe they integrated all those services.

Re: The Perfect Domain Name

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Post by operand » Mon, Nov 28, 2011, 12:50 AM UTC

This is a total shameless plug here, but I've been building a site for exactly this reason for a couple months, and would really love to hear feedback.

The site is http://namrr.com

No I'm not doing any front running or any thing like that. I hope to maybe make some affiliate dollars, but really I built this for myself first, because I hate the stupid frustration of trying to find a name, and I want to make it easy. It's a total work in progress. I would love to hear what you think. Hope I don't get flamed for the self promotion...

Re: The Perfect Domain Name

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Post by shousper » Mon, Nov 28, 2011, 2:27 AM UTC

eurleif wrote: post #2

Also, if the Twitter handle is available, register is first! If you try to register the domain first, a bot will often grab the Twitter handle.

Guess I got lucky.. maybe by staying off the radar. After having my domain for a few weeks now, I just went and grabbed g+, fb and tw accounts/pages for it =D

Thanks for the tip though! Didn't think of this at all..