volodymyr_f

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   Hacker News Launch Experience(floreskul.name)

   2 points by volodymyr_f 14y ago|0 comments
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   by volodymyr_f 14y ago

   I would really appreciate that. You can email me at volodymyr.floreskul+hn@gmail.com.
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   by volodymyr_f 14y ago

   Wow, great advice.
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   by volodymyr_f 14y ago

   You are right, I'll take that into account. Maybe I was confused because the domain for this project was registered through Gandi.net and I had to pay that tax as I currently live in the EU. :)
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   by volodymyr_f 14y ago

   For now this tool does not help to find such domains, but it sounds like a really nice feature to implement, thanks.
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   by volodymyr_f 14y ago

   I didn't want to make anyone upset with this tool. The current version of the service is based on the DNS lookup, which is not always accurate. The errors may happen when a domain does not have a name server record specified or it is in the
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   by volodymyr_f 14y ago

   The domains are shown in a random (but fixed) order at the moment, but I think it's better to sort them by price. Do you have any better criteria on your mind?
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   by volodymyr_f 14y ago

   Done
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   by volodymyr_f 14y ago

   Good, feature request received. :)
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    by volodymyr_f 14y ago

    Thank you for your feedback and the great idea about the domain hacks implementation. :) The prices are shown with the included taxes and ICANN fees, which all registrars calculate a bit differently. I tried to make them as much comparable
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    by volodymyr_f 14y ago

    Thank your for the detailed feedback! You can get the availability for most of the known TLD if you specify the fully qualified domain name in the input. I am going to tune the list of the shown TLDs in order to have the most popular/intere
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    by volodymyr_f 14y ago

    You can just type the domain name with ccTLD included, e.g. "google.us". It will show in the top row.
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    by volodymyr_f 14y ago

    Thanks for the great feature request! Will work on that.
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    by volodymyr_f 14y ago

    Currently the domain check is done via simple DNS lookups. It's not the most reliable way, but it's very fast. Although there is a small probability of checking result errors, for the MVP I decided to stop with this solution. I plan to appl
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    by volodymyr_f 14y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I forgot about the favicon, will add that. I am glad you liked it.
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    by volodymyr_f 14y ago

    Hi Everyone, This is a domain availability checking tool with a simple clean design, a website preview for taken domains and a price comparison for the available ones. Some details about the used technologies are in my blog post at http://
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    Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool(instantname.me)

    65 points by volodymyr_f 14y ago|44 comments