coreyballou.com
Dev tools
domain name search
SHOW HN2012
128points
64comments
#151of 1,677 in 2012
Top 10%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
10 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 37 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.
Execution: 0 for, 7 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
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Useful for finding domain names and browsing ideas
From 4 comments
>Let us know if you find anything good :) I was surprised saalty.com wasn't taken. It sounds so damn cute. I just bought it on impulse because my heart melts at the drop of a hat…
simonsarris on HNThis is pretty cool. The only suggestions I have are the obvious ones of finding search strings anywhere (not just the beginning), and including more domains (which I'm guessing…
mkl on HNawesome site - it's so hard to find a good domain name
zaidmo on HNI also just used leandomain to find the name for a camera search site I'm working on. It gave me wantcamera.com ... sold!
minikomi on HN
Objections
Investing in bulk-bought domains is a poor bet
From 1 comment
Horrible investment. You're buying what people haven't picked up in 27 years. If you want to see what happens when people mass buy based on patterns lookup what happened to 4…
ohashi on HN
Interface wastes space and results are hard to scan
From 2 comments
cool idea but the design is frustrating. there's a lot of noise on the page considering all I want to see are the names and they only occupy about 1/16th of the screen currently.…
stephenhandley on HNFor quick scan lists like this I'd either want to have small result lists above the fold so I can keep pressing 'Next' without scrolling down or huge lists (like leandomainsearch…
melvinmt on HN
Requests
Downloadable raw list of domains
From 3 comments
Possible bug: as I'm scrolling down any list, for example http://www.coreyballou.com/six-character-domain-names/L/, and the infinite scroll refreshes at the bottom, I'm seeing…
hornbaker on HNThanks for this - any way you'd be willing to post the raw list somewhere? I'd love to search and sort it with some other NLP factors (pronounceability, etc)
jasondenizac on HNYou know what would make searching easier? Serve the raw ascii list. I know you have affiliate links and all but a list is worth more. In fact, I'll pay you $10 for your list.…
foxhop on HN
Add more bigram combinations and coverage of missing letters
From 4 comments
This is pretty cool. The only suggestions I have are the obvious ones of finding search strings anywhere (not just the beginning), and including more domains (which I'm guessing…
mkl on HNSomething I just noticed: in your alphabetical list to narrow the results, it skips from E to H, indicating there is nothing with F. If you search for F, though, there are 25…
freehunter on HNIt looks to me like there is nothing beginning with w, x, y, z. Am I not seeing it right?
ereckers on HNthere are no domain names in range of SK - SS. Is this some bug or this bigramms are not popular?
hotdox on HN
Fix infinite scroll duplicates and loops
From 2 comments
Possible bug: as I'm scrolling down any list, for example http://www.coreyballou.com/six-character-domain-names/L/, and the infinite scroll refreshes at the bottom, I'm seeing…
hornbaker on HNSomething is wrong with the infinite-scroll paginator. For t domains, it seems to loop or something, after it gets to tec-.
kmfrk on HN
Questions
How the domain list was generated
From 1 comment
This is pretty cool. The only suggestions I have are the obvious ones of finding search strings anywhere (not just the beginning), and including more domains (which I'm guessing…
mkl on HN
Whether domains can be sorted by naturalness
From 2 comments
Maybe it would be interesting to have a way to sort the result by "score" so that the more "natural" results appear first? (The score should be a combination of the bigram…
a3_nm on HNIt's a fun exercise. I've tried a lot of similar stuff before (http://www.kevinohashi.com/17/04/2011/other-24000-available-brandables-com-domains-full-list). The biggest problem…
ohashi on HN
Alternatives named
domai.nr
From 2 comments
What's wrong with http://domai.nr ?
kngl on HNNice. You should run the domains through domai.nr's "info" API (http://domai.nr/api/docs/json#info-api), so the user doesn't have to manually test by clicking the button.
c_t_montgomery on HN
Lean Domain Search
From 2 comments
Hey Corey, Lean Domain Search creator here -- nice site and list. One thing I'd recommend is to have users click on the results to show them registration options. This gives you…
matt1 on HNLooks good - I'm also a big fan of http://www.leandomainsearch.com/
carlsednaoui on HN
bustaname.com
From 1 comment
If you know your market well and have a variety of "X" and "Y" keywords, I'd highly suggest checking out http://bustaname.com. The site is fantastic for generating available word…
jqueryin on HN
Domize
From 1 comment
Have you seen Domize? How is this better than that? Because it offers browsing instead of just searching? Domize - http://domize.com/
PaulMest on HN