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Show HN: A Smart Name Brainstorming And Domain Search Engine
- mohit_agg 14y agoHi HN, I mainly built this tool to do an exhaustive search on the primary keyword so that you don't have to settle for secondary keywords. Feedback/Suggestions are welcome. Thanks
- michaelpinto 14y ago1. Clean up the layout: Less is more! 2. My favorite flavor was fun because those new names could actually be trademarked.
- mohit_agg 14y agothanks for replying :) i didn't quite understand what u meant by cleaning the layout. i am trying to utilize all the space available for showing more results.
- michaelpinto 14y agoThe landing page has too much useless junk on it. My advice would be that unless it adds to the actual functionality of the page to eliminate any. If you're having problem rate every element on the page on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being "fluff" and 10 being "must have" and then cut everything that's 9 or less. Also either hire someone who has an art direction background to layout the page or use a template. And again, more colors aren't better.
- mohit_agg 14y agogreat advice. i will use your technique. i am not good in web design. do u think i should add a carousel instead of those 4 boxes?
- nickporter 14y agono
- michaelpinto 14y agoNick is on the money! Less is more — your concept is A+ — it's all about the search box and some minor explanation in 25 words or less, don't try and dress that up...
- flexxaeon 14y agoWow... Does a good job of suggesting names, but the Twitter & Facebook availability check was a nice surprise. Well done.
- mohit_agg 14y agoglad u liked it
- metafunctor 14y agoThe site appears to work, responds quickly (despite being on Hacker News), so good job. Bookmarked. Howeveer, it did claim some domains are free when they are not. I searched for "hit feed", it brought up hitfeed.com as free, but it's already registered. What would you say your site does better than leandomainsearch.com?
- mohit_agg 14y agoi think domains are being claimed free because of high traffic. i like leandomainsearch. but when i was looking for my domain i ended up using bustaname(synonym search), leandomainsearch(prefixes, suffixes), domainr(country tlds and hacks) and some thesaurus website like rhymezone. that's 4 different sites i just wanted to combine it all and add something to create fun names formed from merging like groupon as well.
- c_t_montgomery 14y agoGlad to hear you're a Domainr user! Let me know anything you'd like to be improved on it.
- mohit_agg 14y agodomainr is awesome. i always use it to check across tlds. :)
- RenierZA 14y agoYou list a .za domain, but it should really be .co.za
- mohit_agg 14y agofixed
- propercoil 14y agoPlenty of the results are "buy" but are actually part of godaddy auction
- mohit_agg 14y agothe red "buy" are unavailable but could be for sale. the green ones are available. u can uncheck the flag 'show unavailable' next to search button. should i make it unchecked by default? let me know what do u think?
- propercoil 14y agosome are green but are in an auction
- mohit_agg 14y agooh, that is happening due to traffic burst. will look into it.
- jpswade 14y ago.gb?
- mohit_agg 14y agofixed
- riffraff 14y agonice job, If I may suggest an improvement: after selecting a domain the "not available" for twitter/facebook is not clear. For example, "foo.io" is an available domain, while facebook and twitter are not. I imagine it checked for @foo and /foo but maybe I'd be interested in @foo_io and /foo.io and I can't tweak this, nor tell what the app checked.
- mohit_agg 14y agoyes it checks for @foo and /foo currently. i will correct the messaging. checking for @foo_io and /foo.io is a great suggestion. will add them as well. thanks!
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- mohit_agg 14y agofixed the .ca domains, thanks
- markokrajnc 14y agoSearch on "group coupon" gives me available gron.com, but on GoDaddy it is not available...
- saryant 14y agoHere's a bug I found after scrolling down a bit: http://i.imgur.com/m1BSY.png http://i.imgur.com/m1BSY.png
- hfz 14y ago.id results show available but can't be found on any three domain seller.
- mohit_agg 14y agowill look into it. thanks
- brador 14y agoI'm not seeing any results. My guess is the results should show under the four colored bars right?. I've tried different searches and clicked on the examples and still nothing.
- mohit_agg 14y agoyes the results must come under the colored bars and some above it. which browser are u using?
- bbrks 14y agoSame problem here, running Chrome 23.0.1271.97 m on Windows 7
- mohit_agg 14y agoi have fixed it. you might have to clear your browser cache though. thanks
- brador 14y agoI can confirm it works now. Thanks for the quick fix. What was causing the problem and how did you fix it?
- mohit_agg 14y agoit was a javascript error. somehow cookie containing tlds to search for was not being set correctly (for the first request). added fallback logic.
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- FigBug 14y agoIt suggested some .er domains, which can't actually be purchased, that I'm aware of anyway.
- mohit_agg 14y agoi see, will fix it. thanks
- HolyCow4353 14y agoI think "show unavailable" should not be checked by default. Very good site though...
- mohit_agg 14y agodone. thanks
- 8ig8 14y agoUseful. Thanks. One issue I noticed is that I cannot "scroll down for more" when using my iPad. I tried a two-finger drag. No dice. My suggestion would be to make the "scroll down" text clickable to reveal more.
- mohit_agg 14y agosure. thanks
- yaj 14y agoI really like the similar suggestion. I am not sure of the "Lets be friends" in red text in the bottom of the search. The social buttons might be enough. Besides cleaning up the layout, its really good.
- mohit_agg 14y agothanks. glad u liked it
- bdcravens 14y ago1) Available domains totally broken. Searched for "auction" - it told me auction.com was available, as well as sell.com, sale.com, etc 2) Unlike domai.nr, it will send me to an affiliate (obviously the purpose of the site) even if they don't handle that particular TLD (for example, GoDaddy and .ly)
- mohit_agg 14y ago.com sometimes does not work because of burst load. i am working on adding more registrar for those tlds. thanks
- znt 14y agoThis looks pretty cool, but I also have the impression that we may be DDoS'ing some service by 'burst' searching through this tool. Is it the case?
- mohit_agg 14y agoi use dns and whois queries only
- hnriot 14y agoI tried it and it told me a domain was available, I click through, select godaddy only to be told that it was already taken.
- dbro 14y agoNicely done. Here's a similar site I made previously: http://www.domainjig.com http://www.domainjig.com Beyond the shameless self-promotion I found that getting people to use it would take a lot of work, with lots of alternatives out there that have dedicated teams promoting them. On the positive side, I learned a lot from it; but I never made any significant money from it. If you're comfortable sharing your next steps, I'd be interested to know what you're aiming for with this project. Good luck!