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Ask HN: Rate my tool http://r3gy.com

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I am very much attempting the release early release often approach. This is phase 1 of my goal to create a domain registrar. Let me know what you think. Thank you very much for checking it out.

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You probably want to do a hair more input validation. It told me that peanutbutterbomb wasn't available, but that peanutbutterbomb.com was. The first is obviously not even a domain name, and the error should reflect that. Users might get confused that the .com, .org, .net, .whatever domains are all already taken.

The interface is slick.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm thinking I will push a change pretty soon so that when someone doesn't enter a tld, it will go ahead and check .com, .net, and .org.

While watching people use the site, this seems to be my biggest UI bug.

I know I have an immature brain, but my brain translated r3gy to orgy. Perhaps it's the 3 out of 4 letters and almost in the same order. Why is it called r3gy?

I like the initial concept, but instantdomainsearch.com does the same thing but better, with auto searching and shows all the three main TLDs. Perhaps have those features as well?

I seriously didn't know anyone else doing this, so its great to see other people in the same space. Theirs is really nice.

The name came form an idea from an earlier HN article about 4 letter domains. I started using it, and decided I didn't like it. However this was a weekend project, and I spend 2 hours trying to think of another name without anything coming up. I decided to go ahead and finish it. And yes I read it as orgy too (after purchasing it).

Good news is now I have a tool to find a better name.

This is pretty obscure, but in Hungarian, the 'gy' letter makes a sound very similar to the 'dge' sound at the end of the word 'edge.' I read the domain as 'redge,' as in the beginning of the word register. Obviously, that will work for almost no one else (statistically).

Why are you motivated to create a domain registrar? What pain will you remove or what value will you provide that makes you different then the million other registrar/hosting businesses out there?

The pain is the large amount of upsells. GoDaddy particularly makes me click through many offers to buy extra things I don't need. I won't have that. Also I think there is value in a service that only does domains. I don't need hosting, and I don't want to navigate the UI to find my domains in a sea of other services.

Clickable: http://r3gy.com

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