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Show HN: Keyword Tool to Find Available Domain Names

domaingroovy.com

61 pointsJasber29 comments

I wrote this keyword tool to help find a domain for a new project I am working on.

I thought it turned out decent enough, so I'm releasing it, hoping others will find it useful.

There are tons of these domain keyword tools around, here's why I built this one:

- Wanted to check the best keywords first, then fallback to less popular keywords

- Handle plural/singular keywords gracefully (like greatguitar.com, guitargreat.com, greatguitars.com, but not guitarsgreat.com)

- Use WHOIS rather than DNS to determine availability (more accurate, but slower)

- Simple to use

- Fast

There's still a lot to do, but in the spirit of release early and often, I'd love some feedback on this.

Do you find this useful?

Just tested it, very useful, good job!

Very much so, thank you. This comes at a time that i'm working on a new project as well and looking for suitable domain names.

Really nice. I tried it and it suggested some genuinely useful domain names, unlike most of these tools.

Personally, I think it's totally badass.

This is great! Thank you.

I find http://impossibility.org to be a fair bit faster and with a bit more control over options. Suggestion: it'd be nice if one could toggle between what registrar they wish to use and have the URLs automatically updated.

Thanks for the feedback.

I'll work on adding more registrars, this is planned.

The site is slower than normal right now due to increased load, but should return to normal after the HN spike. If not I'll more workers.

My goal is that you should never have to wait for results. By the time you click "Load more results", they should already be available.

Both now bookmarked - a while ago I went hunting for a good domain name helper and came up very short.

This is great--I've already bought 2 good domains for a project that I've been trying to rename for months. Thanks!

Hmm, tldrpower.com is available.

How are you checking for name availability? Every option I've looked at either wants to charge me money, or has a TOS that's hostile to scripting.

Big fan-- already gave us some new domain ideas to discuss for our next project. Thanks!

it works. To make this even faster., Try to memcatch frequently searched domain names and flush it for every 24 hours(Incase someone registered one).

Good luck.

Thanks. I am caching domain results for a small period of time, so this does help with some of the speed/load.

The site may be a little slower than normal right now because of HN traffic, but I'm working on keeping it going.

Thanks for your feedback.

Fine., Also try to find "heat map" of user's mouse activities(hover) or click ratio. Try to give rating for those available domains for yourself and prioritize them based on it. Diff colors, Diff font size.. This will start rocking your popularity & aff earning ;)

Also try to find "heat map" of user's mouse activities(hover) or click ratio. Try to give rating for those available domains for yourself and prioritize them based on it.

I had thought of clicks, but not hover ratio--that's pretty interesting.

I may have to experiment with that, thanks for the idea.

When I scroll down a little and try to highlight a domain name, as soon as I click on the white-space, it scrolls to the top. All I am trying to do is highlight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBDPYnNryJE&hd=1

Great tool. I like its results more than impossibilit...

What version of Chrome are you using? And what OS are you on?

Thanks for the video, that makes debugging much easier.

I am on firefox 4 RC1. Windows 7.

throwing errors:

TemplateSyntaxError at /keyword_tool/

Caught OperationalError while rendering: (2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)")

Request Method: GET Request URL: http://domaingroovy.com/keyword_tool/ Django Version: 1.3 rc 1 Exception Type: TemplateSyntaxError Exception Value:

Caught OperationalError while rendering: (2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)")

Exception Location: /home/domain/domaingroovy/env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py in __init__, line 187 Python Executable: /home/domain/domaingroovy/env/bin/python Python Version: 2.6.5

Thanks, load was over 100 which makes it extremely slow to fix.

I've tweaked some settings to try and handle the load better (250K domains checked in 2 hours was a little more than I expected).

This is actually quite useful. Speed would improve the overall user experience. Also, I'm not too sure what the links are at the bottom of the page?

All in all, great first start. It'll be powerful once you start including other domains (.me, .us etc)

Additional value would be to check associated Twitter/Facebook usernames - you're not just searching for a domain name, you're searching for a brand, right?

Great service though (impressed by Impossibility! too).

I got a Django exception... maybe this will help you out: http://i.imgur.com/RiSZU.png

Thanks for this, just reminded me I need to set DEBUG = False

Nice work. I still prefer http://domai.nr/ for ease of use and those extra techie tlds.

Jasber, thanks for building this. You're really really making it easy for me to find a great name for my projects.

It's groovy! Seriously - that's fantastic.

Thanks, excuse me while I register "poopcrunch.com"

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