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by matt1 18y ago
No its not :)
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by matt1 18y ago
Yeah, good point. Patten said "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow." Not a bad way to approach your projects either...
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by matt1 18y ago
Thanks!
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by matt1 18y ago
Oh wow. I just got into work and saw this on my Google Alerts. It's funny--I'm currently redesigning the entire front page. I think it looks kind of sloppy right now and was hoping to rerelease on Sunday before I started promoting it and re
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by matt1 18y ago
Yes, good points -- thank you.
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by matt1 18y ago
Nah, not overlooked. Domain Pigeon lists domain names, but it doesn't let you register them for free, which is what I think "free domain" refers to. That's why I didn't consider them much. Also, I'm afraid of the competition for those terms
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by matt1 18y ago
Just now, yes. For volume: available URLs - 320 available website - 2600 available websites - 1000 available website names - 1000 So, not bad (a lot better than unregistered), but not as good as the ones that contain the word "domain" too.
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by matt1 18y ago
As sleezy as it seems to craft your site in a way to increase its pagerank, that's the system we've got and to ignore it is to miss out on a major traffic source. We had a phrase in college... "Shut up and color" :)
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by matt1 18y ago
No ads yet; the purpose of this exercise was to find out what to focus the copy on the site. Ads will follow... maybe...
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by matt1 18y ago
A little background, as I can relate: I built a poker calculator called ALL IN Expert, which I thought would be a big hit but wasn't. When it launched, it received very little coverage or attention and I quickly despaired and took the site
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by matt1 18y ago
Because people will say "screw this" and leave your site for good?
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Strategizing with Google's Keyword Tool(mattmazur.com)
17 points by matt1 18y ago|10 comments
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by matt1 18y ago
Not intended to be at all--
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by matt1 18y ago
A little bit of a good product, a little bit of luck, and a little bit of attention on HN.
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by matt1 18y ago
It's going to be a good day. :)
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Domain Pigeon helps you find unclaimed URLs(news.cnet.com)
3 points by matt1 18y ago|7 comments
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by matt1 18y ago
The tougher a market is the more you can make by doing it well, no?
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by matt1 18y ago
Six months from now, I bet you're going to remember the name though :)
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by matt1 18y ago
Very good observations. - I'm not sure what the best way to show the price is. I played with having it big and bold on the registration page but couldn't get it to look right. In an effort to learn how to do it better, I've been taking phot
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by matt1 18y ago
You might be right. I'll try to make it a great site for both audiences.
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by matt1 18y ago
I think keeping "for your website" makes it clearer for normal people.
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by matt1 18y ago
My hope is that Domain Pigeon will give people options so that they don't have to use names like Oodlu if they don't want to. In a sense, we're on the same team :)
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by matt1 18y ago
It's more of a prank, but, one I need to solve. When shitty domains get voted up to the Top 10, people will see those and infer the overall quality of the domains on the site. Worse, no one will ever register those domains and they will sit
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by matt1 18y ago
What?
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by matt1 18y ago
Yes, as someone who voted up "adenosineetriphosphate.com" figured out, that can be done. I limited it to one view per unique IP address to avoid that problem in the future. Thank you.
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by matt1 18y ago
Thanks and good point about the click message. It now only appears when the user is within the domain controller.
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by matt1 18y ago
Yeah, that's smart. Done.
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by matt1 18y ago
I realized after you grabbed this that the color calculations were also including registered domains, which it shouldn't have been doing. I fixed that so now that you grabbed campdeal, which was by far the most heavily clicked domain, every
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by matt1 18y ago
Someone just got campdeal.com too :)
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by matt1 18y ago
When the site has 100K domains rather than 10K domains, I'll definitely make it more prominent. Right now most search results will be 'No domains found' which is why I don't want to showcase it too much. Also, as mentioned elsewhere in this

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