The 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?
i 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.
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.
1) 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)
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.
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.
I'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.
yes 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!
thanks 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.
The 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.
Nick 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...
the 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?
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?