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Show HN: Get a great domain by translating your keyword into 30+ languages
In the dark old days when I was uninspired and couldn't come up with a name for a project I'd hop onto my old pal Google Translate and see if a keyword associated with my name "sounded cool in German"
If it did, and the domain was unused I'd scoop it up and use it.
This process took a while, I'd try German, French, Russian, Armenian, Latvian, etc trying to find something cool that wasn't already being used.
So I built http://www.catelus.com/
It translates your keyword into more than 30 different languages and checks if your-word-in-german.com and your-word-in-polish.com are registered/being used.
I wanted a name that brought to mind hound dogs, which lead me to "puppy" which in turn lead me to catelus which is Romanian for puppy.
It's a pretty cool word yeah? I was honestly surprised that some analytics company hadn't gobbled that one up.
I'd appreciate any feedback you have!
- dmitrygr 10y agoThe "available" column is wrong. Try entering "cat" It suggests "kat.com" as available it is not
- armenarmen 10y agoThanks, I'm working on getting rid of the false positives now. They pop up sometimes when a domain is being squated. My temporary bs solution is adding "Or, just not being used." In the success message. Hacky^2 I know
- bbcbasic 10y agoGetting it right is slow. For example try https://tld.ninja https://tld.ninja
- armenarmen 10y agodid not know about this, thanks!
- yabatopia 10y agoIt sound like a great idea, but I can't access your site. This is the warning that I get from Trend Micro on my router: Warning! The website contains malware. Visiting this site may harm your computer. Detailed informations: Description: Malicious Domain or website, Domains that host malicious payloads. Host: 94:35:0A:EB:B6:D8 URL: catelus.com Maybe a false positive, or a puppy with a bad history?
- armenarmen 10y agoThanks for taking a look, I'll get on trying to fix that!
- pedalpete 10y agoThis is great! I was looking for a domain name a few months ago and was typing keywords into google translate trying to find something that was decent and available. Nicely done.
- armenarmen 10y agoI was going through the same thing, thanks for taking a look!
- tedmiston 10y agoYour concept is pretty cool. On a technical note, something is causing two issues in iOS Safari: extreme lag when typing each character in the search box, and something is crashing the page and forcing a reload between hitting search and seeing results (sometimes).
- phantom_oracle 10y agoThat massive background image of the dog is a resource-hog. Just remove it and the site-loading will improve greatly.