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Show HN: Tweetname - Register domain names using Twitter

19 points by pud 15y ago

pud 15y ago
I submitted this yesterday but the dns was still propagating & it was down for many. Hope that's okay.
arkitaip 15y ago
Maybe it's just me but I wasn't aware about Twitter's direct message feature so to me this seemed like I would shout out which domains I was about to register. But then again I don't use Twitter that much.
- pud 15y ago
  Good point. I should add a sentence or two on the Tweetname site to help out people who don't know how that all works. Thx.
- pud 15y ago
  Update: I just added the word "private" twice in the "How It Works" section. Hopefully this is a good enough explanation for now. Though it still doesn't explain the intricacies of Twitter for the non-Twitter-user. Perhaps I should add a "more info" or FAQ. Thanks again.
  - kaerast 15y ago
    Don't worry about it, if a user doesn't know what Tweets or direct messages are then the service isn't for them. You'll struggle to get people to start using Twitter just to register domains when there's plenty of good registrars already, most people will have their favourite they use regularly. I see this more as a service for power Twitter users so they can easily register new domains after having a drunken idea.
leebandoni 15y ago
Did you not launch this last year, i'm sure I have seen it before
- pud 15y ago
  Yes and no. I launched it many years ago, before Twitter went oAuth-only. User login was always oAuth, but the process that sent tweets like "success!" were not. So some of the site was broken, and the design sucked. I fixed those things, and added a bunch of other things this week. So I guess you could say it's v2.0.
brackin 15y ago
Seen this for a while the new updates look clean and awesome. Good work Pud. Big inspiration.
matdwyer 15y ago
I think you've done a really cool thing here, but honestly it feels a bit gimmicky. I have maybe 25 domains, so not a huge player, but I can't imagine that saving the 2 minutes it takes me to register a domain would do anything for me. Maybe a browser extension or something, but the twitter aspect just makes me ask "why". Not trying to take away from your design (very nice) or execution (congrats)... just skeptical if its really solving a "problem" [don't take this as negative... maybe thinking about it would give you another feature or something :-) ]
tempire 15y ago
This is very interesting, if only for the concept of using twitter as an interface for other services. Good show, man.

19 points by pud 15y ago

pud 15y ago

I submitted this yesterday but the dns was still propagating & it was down for many. Hope that's okay.

Maybe it's just me but I wasn't aware about Twitter's direct message feature so to me this seemed like I would shout out which domains I was about to register. But then again I don't use Twitter that much.

pud 15y ago
Good point. I should add a sentence or two on the Tweetname site to help out people who don't know how that all works. Thx.
pud 15y ago
Update: I just added the word "private" twice in the "How It Works" section. Hopefully this is a good enough explanation for now. Though it still doesn't explain the intricacies of Twitter for the non-Twitter-user. Perhaps I should add a "more info" or FAQ. Thanks again.
- kaerast 15y ago
  Don't worry about it, if a user doesn't know what Tweets or direct messages are then the service isn't for them. You'll struggle to get people to start using Twitter just to register domains when there's plenty of good registrars already, most people will have their favourite they use regularly. I see this more as a service for power Twitter users so they can easily register new domains after having a drunken idea.

leebandoni 15y ago

Did you not launch this last year, i'm sure I have seen it before

pud 15y ago
Yes and no. I launched it many years ago, before Twitter went oAuth-only. User login was always oAuth, but the process that sent tweets like "success!" were not. So some of the site was broken, and the design sucked. I fixed those things, and added a bunch of other things this week. So I guess you could say it's v2.0.

brackin 15y ago

Seen this for a while the new updates look clean and awesome. Good work Pud. Big inspiration.

matdwyer 15y ago

I think you've done a really cool thing here, but honestly it feels a bit gimmicky. I have maybe 25 domains, so not a huge player, but I can't imagine that saving the 2 minutes it takes me to register a domain would do anything for me. Maybe a browser extension or something, but the twitter aspect just makes me ask "why". Not trying to take away from your design (very nice) or execution (congrats)... just skeptical if its really solving a "problem" [don't take this as negative... maybe thinking about it would give you another feature or something :-) ]

tempire 15y ago

This is very interesting, if only for the concept of using twitter as an interface for other services. Good show, man.