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A faster instant domain search
- aston 18y agoGreat UI. Really takes advantage of the blurring of the line between perception of responsiveness and perception of actual speed. I don't think it's that much faster in real terms than instantdomainsearch, but it feels like it's way speedier.
- whacked_new 18y agoIt actually took me a while to figure out that red meant unavailable and blue meant available. And even after, that they have the same size and brightness made me miss IDS's clarity. But otherwise, I agree.
- savrajsingh 18y agoI had the same problem -- wasn't sure what blue or red meant, so I had to run some obvious tests.
- dmnd 18y agoIt is a great UI, but I would suggest having the site turn off my browser's autocomplete so the results are not obscured.
- riklomas 18y agoYeah, the input needs autocomplete="off" adding to it, otherwise you can't quite see what you're doing
- petercooper 18y agoThe way it shows the shorter / trimmed variants of what you type is interesting but not, I feel, particularly useful. It has a nice UI though and does seem very fast! It also only does com, net and org, whereas ajaxwhois, for example, does biz, us, info and ca. Two alternatives: http://www.ajaxwhois.com/ http://www.ajaxwhois.com/ http://www.instantdomainsearch.com/ http://www.instantdomainsearch.com/ A "sort of" alternative (requires a click but comes up with better results for word mixes): http://www.bustaname.com/ http://www.bustaname.com/ I'd rather like to see one that can also do .co.uk, just being a Brit and all :) I have a few customers who would use such a thing.
- nextmoveone 18y agokind of like... squurl.com as well
- johnrob 18y agoFantastic!
- chaostheory 18y agodupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177270 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177270
- jfarmer 18y agoThere's also http://domainzomg.com/ http://domainzomg.com/
- hendra 18y agosimple but cool ;)
- aseever 18y agoI really need something like this, and I think they've nailed the UX... but it appears to use GoDaddy to do the whois. I don't have any personal experience but a quick google search will back me up when I assert they are notorious for not being trustworthy with your whois queries. A site like this that I felt like I could trust would be a daily destination for me.
- rrival 18y agoIt's way too fast for whois. They're probably using the COM/NET/ORG Zone files in a nicely indexed db. I'd be interested to know more about the back end - they get points for responsiveness.
- aston 18y agoBug report: typing a ' leads to a JS error. Yay, quotes.
- Feynman 18y agoI guess instant isn't fast enough now? Wow, tough crowd of users! =)
- Retric 18y agoStill buggy pogo.com showed up as free and it's not.
- okeumeni 18y agoNeeds better colors; I can barely see existing domains list. Cool stuff!