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I do the opposite : ) I buy the domain, and then put myself to sleep skipping through biz avenues.. A fun tool to use for hand-reg domains (if you didn't know

I do the opposite : ) I buy the domain, and then put myself to sleep skipping through biz avenues.. A fun tool to use for hand-reg domains (if you didn't know already) https://instantdomainsearch.com/ https://instantdomainsearch.com/

mezod 10y ago
good trap tool for godaddy to get domains you are interested in
- wavefunction 10y ago
  I use geektools, they've been around forever and I've never had any domain I've looked through there sniped away from me.
  - mezod 10y ago
    same here with gandi.net, thanks for sharing!
- nickfromseattle 10y ago
  Do you have personal experience getting sniped with LDS? I've used it a half a dozen times and always had success.
  - officialjunk 10y ago
    I've been sniped a few times with instantdomainsearch.com when actually proceeding through to godaddy, but then not buying it within about a day. Haven't had any issues when not going through to godaddy, though.
    - beau 10y ago
      That's surprising. Network Solutions was caught doing something like this (http://domainnamewire.com/2008/01/08/network-solutions-faces-pr-nightmare-over-domain-frontrunning/ http://domainnamewire.com/2008/01/08/network-solutions-faces...) but I've never seen any evidence that Go Daddy does anything like this. Blake Irving is a good man.
SwellJoe 10y ago
As an aside, I first heard about instantdomainsearch.com from Beau at a Y Combinator event. He was working on Snipshot, and considered the domain search as an old side project that wasn't all that interesting anymore. It's interesting to see that the domain search is still up and running and Snipshot is gone. I wonder which one made more money in that decade+.
- beau 10y ago
  Instant Domain Search did. People visiting the site tend to be ready to buy a domain, and Go Daddy does an amazing job of converting that intent into an actual sale. Most if Snipshot's users tended to use the tool to crop and apply filters to photos they posted to social networks. Whoops.
  - SwellJoe 10y ago
    That would have been my guess, but I didn't want to make assumptions about the Snipshot acquisition.

mezod 10y ago

good trap tool for godaddy to get domains you are interested in

wavefunction 10y ago
I use geektools, they've been around forever and I've never had any domain I've looked through there sniped away from me.
- mezod 10y ago
  same here with gandi.net, thanks for sharing!
nickfromseattle 10y ago
Do you have personal experience getting sniped with LDS? I've used it a half a dozen times and always had success.
- officialjunk 10y ago
  I've been sniped a few times with instantdomainsearch.com when actually proceeding through to godaddy, but then not buying it within about a day. Haven't had any issues when not going through to godaddy, though.
  - beau 10y ago
    That's surprising. Network Solutions was caught doing something like this (http://domainnamewire.com/2008/01/08/network-solutions-faces-pr-nightmare-over-domain-frontrunning/ http://domainnamewire.com/2008/01/08/network-solutions-faces...) but I've never seen any evidence that Go Daddy does anything like this. Blake Irving is a good man.

SwellJoe 10y ago

As an aside, I first heard about instantdomainsearch.com from Beau at a Y Combinator event. He was working on Snipshot, and considered the domain search as an old side project that wasn't all that interesting anymore. It's interesting to see that the domain search is still up and running and Snipshot is gone. I wonder which one made more money in that decade+.

beau 10y ago
Instant Domain Search did. People visiting the site tend to be ready to buy a domain, and Go Daddy does an amazing job of converting that intent into an actual sale. Most if Snipshot's users tended to use the tool to crop and apply filters to photos they posted to social networks. Whoops.
- SwellJoe 10y ago
  That would have been my guess, but I didn't want to make assumptions about the Snipshot acquisition.