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How Lean Domain Search's Brandable Domain Name Generation Algorithm works
- 300bps 13y agoIn my last job, we would randomly assign a password to someone when they registered for an account that needed to be changed on first login. I wanted to make them somewhat pronounceable but avoid four-letter words so the format was: consonant vowel vowel consonant number number number number We got a complaint email one time because someone said that he was a pre-operative transsexual and we must have known that because we teased him with the password of DUUD5921. Basically he was saying we were purposely calling him a dude. I'm glad I wasn't responsible for responding to customer emails because I would have no idea what to say to that. I can only imagine the complaint emails this service will get from cuckoo-birds.
- Sujan 13y agoNice writeup. When I saw this article in my feedreader I thought it would be a very complicated thing that Matt did, but basically it's just using one/two data sources with some great ideas. The result speaks for itself I think: http://www.leandomainsearch.com/brandable http://www.leandomainsearch.com/brandable
- pi18n 13y agoTakes public data, simple heuristics, and some insights and produces great results. Very very clever. That was well worth the short read.
- yid 13y agoIs it just me or do most of these sound like drug brands? My favorites include "paralytica", "effectiven" and "circumvenio".
- MWil 13y agoI like quarterbaq and translucen
- AlexMuir 13y agoLDS is top of my toolbox for finding domains along with: http://instantdomainsearch.com http://instantdomainsearch.com - for quick searches http://www.domainhole.com http://www.domainhole.com - for expired domains and sometimes http://www.wordoid.com http://www.wordoid.com for coming up with random words (increasingly a waste of time)
- rcavezza 13y agoThis is awesome. LDS has been a case study in how iterating leads to a really great product. I just hope they are earning enough commissions so they can keep creating quality domain search products.
- robomartin 13y agoOne suggestion. Add an easy way to also check what the chosen domain name might mean in a series of languages. It's embarrassing to receive an email from a user telling you that your domain means something foul in their language.