I use LDS often, but it'd be considerably more useful to me if you relaxed the requirements on the root search to allow fewer than 3 characters and allow numbers. Is there a technical reason why you don't allow short or number-containing searches?
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
#42Wow, 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/suffi…
Very cool, and a clever algorithm!
I've been playing with the site, and the sheer number of results can be a bit overwhelming. It might be neat to help address that by grouping together the suggested domains into categories of roots?
For example, there could be Places roots, filled with roots like hub, spot, -ocity, etc. There could be Frugal roots, with roots like cheap, cheapo, bargain, steal, etc. There could Newspaper roots, which add words like Observer, Times, Post, Chronicle, etc. to the users input. Other users could also create their own Roots, and share them... it'd be a great way to encourage community and create stickiness. If I have my 100 favorite Roots categories saved to your site, I'm much more likely to continue to use it to hunt for new domains.
When I search for a keyword, the results could be displayed in conceptual groupings (i.e. the different Roots categories)... that would help me quickly scan the results.
Just a thought... feel free to use or disregard. I'll definitely be using your site in the meantime!
Re: Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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/suffi…
Very cool, and a clever algorithm! I've been playing with the site, and the sheer number of results can be a bit overwhelming. It might be neat to help address that by grouping together the suggested domains into categories of roots? For example, there could be Places roots, filled with roots like hub, spot, -ocity, etc. There could be Frugal roots, with roots like cheap, cheapo, bargain, steal, etc. There could News…
This is a really excellent idea.
If you (or anyone reading this) is interested in categorizing the 2,000 modifiers like this suggests, please drop me a note: matt@leandomainsearch.com -- I'd be more than happy to compensate you for your effort.
Re: Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search
#44I use LDS often, but it'd be considerably more useful to me if you relaxed the requirements on the root search to allow fewer than 3 characters and allow numbers. Is there a technical reason why you don't allow short or number-containing searches?
Yep, there's a technical reason for it. I'll work on a resolution for it and make a post here and on the mailing list when its available.
Re: Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very cool, and a clever algorithm! I've been playing with the site, and the sheer number of results can be a bit overwhelming. It might be neat to help address that by grouping together the suggested domains into categories of roots? For example, there could be Places roots, filled with roots like hub, spot, -ocity, etc. There could be Frugal roots, with roots like cheap, cheapo, bargain, steal, etc. There could News…
This is a really excellent idea. If you (or anyone reading this) is interested in categorizing the 2,000 modifiers like this suggests, please drop me a note: matt@leandomainsearch.com -- I'd be more than happy to compensate you for your effort.
I'd be glad to take a pass at it! Will drop you an email...
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Though I understand the idea, I'm not too familiar with how A/B tests are performed in practice. I would've assumed you'd need a lot of data to get statistically significant results. Is the volume of data that you need to achieve that statistical significance well-understood and do you actually have the traffic to collect that amount of data? (I guess I imagined that it would require huge amounts of data.)
Hey Pete. The duration of the A/B test depends on several factors. I recommend checking out this calculator on Visual Website Optimizer to get a feel for how many you need:
Re: Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search
#47Great service!
Feature request: allow us to add parameters to your url for sorting and start/end with options, instead of just the q present right now, so it can be more flexibly bookmarked and linked.
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#48http://www.domainsbot.com checks way more than 10,000 for every search, doing semantic matching. They have been doing it for years.
I'm sorry but I'm failing to see how this is cooler other than the fancy colors.
Re: Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search
#49http://www.domainsbot.com checks way more than 10,000 for every search, doing semantic matching. They have been doing it for years. I'm sorry but I'm failing to see how this is cooler other than the fancy colors.
This one has "lean" in the name, therefore superior.
Re: Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search
#50I love lean domain search. I found (almost) metainbox.com there, which was an awesome name for my app.
(I actually missed it and stumbled upon it on my own, but I went back and it was there. There are just so many options!)