Neat, but I like http://domai.nr/ better because it shows interesting TLDs that would make my domain be one word. For instance, it suggests tim.do/rr for my username.
Very nice! Much like instantdomainsearch, but with much broader TLD coverage.
Your pricing for Gandi seems incorrect; for instance, Gandi charges $15.50/year for .com domains, not $18.54.
Sad that this still points people at GoDaddy as the cheapest option; you get what you pay for, and GoDaddy has numerous well-known problems (in their policies on how they (don't) support you if they get a complaint, and in their many distasteful actions as a company).
You might also consider doing the obvious domain hack searches, at least for exact matches: if the term the user typed in ends with a valid TLD, drop that suffix and search for that term with that TLD. For instance, for the term "exampleio", since it ends in "io", show the result for "example.io" and label it "domain hack" on the left (where you show the labels for "exact match", "gTLD", and "ccTLD").
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 as possible. The total price for .com domain at Gandi.net is indeed 18.54 (https://www.gandi.net/domain/price/detail/com/)
Which other registrars would you like to be included?
That price only applies if you live in the EU and have to pay VAT. You don't have to pay that price anywhere else in the world. And Gandi covers all the relevant fees; the price they quote is what you actually pay them.
"Last week I came back to this idea and realized that there are good alternatives available, it should not be treated a reason to stop."
- Awesome, I'm glad you decided to go ahead with this. This is a crowded space but you've been able to make a useful tool with features other sites don't have. Congrats!
Wow! Great work. If I had a request, it would be to support more exotic TLDs and other registrars--but it's amazingly useful as-is. The price comparison is killer; I had no idea I could register a .TV domain for 10 bucks. I'll definitely be using this.
Is your VPS doing the DNS lookup, or is that client side? If it's done on your server, I would suggest that the site preview feature could be made click-activation rather than automatic. It's already pretty slow to load, and I would be just as happy with a link to open an unavailable domain in a new window. Basically, if the preview slows down the domain availability lookup, I think it should be pushed to a lower priority.
Overall, very slick! Congrats on a successful side-project.
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/interesting ones there.
Love the tool. Since the "Propose it" link doesn't seem to work for me, here's a feature request: can you put the query in the hash fragment so that I can paste this into an email or chat?
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.
I didn't expect this to work with so many TLDs, very cool! I haven't really found anything like this before. I wish I had more constructive criticism, the layout is clean and it just works so great. Maybe include a more customized favicon? I'll definitely keep it bookmarked.
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?
It took me a few moments to realize the reason this service wasn't working at all was because you use port 3000 to load the domain registration information. Many firewalls, both in a corporate environment and at home, tend to block things like this.
Perhaps you could reconsider this decision and use port 80.
Nice work, I would suggest expanding the range of ccTLDs though - as there are so many, maybe put the available ones at the top of the ccTLD list to prevent too much scrolling. I like the quick links to registrars at the side, very handy.
Very handy! Here's another feature suggestion: include the renewal rate on your price comparison. For example Namecheap does .co registration for ~$13 for the first year, but after renewal it's ~$22 (just did this yesterday).
Looks good. 2 things I would add:
- automatically exit the "getting website preview" on taking the mouse off the div.
- an X or some way to close the website preview thing (once website preview loaded).
Good luck!
It appears to be buggy. It told me Internet.io, Business.mobi, Collect.fm and others were available (they're not). It was making me very excited until I learned it was mistaken quite regularly. :(
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 a redemption period.
The current version is an experiment that checks if such a tool can be useful for people. All the received feedback will be used to improve it. Using more reliable approach of domain availability checking for sure has the highest priority.
I like it, but I gotta say - a decent logo would take this a long way forward. Can I volunteer to make something for free that's at least better than what you have now?
The interface is easy and simple to use.
I was trying to search for a .in domain and it is still looking for it after about a minute of hitting submit.
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.
