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Show HN: Domainy – Monitor domain names for availability

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Domainy is a tool to get alerted on when the domain names you like and want are about to expire and also become available.

https://www.domainy.io

A few use cases

- I'm monitoring all the other TLD domain names for which I would like to eventually acquire to protect brand names for the domain names that I already have (e.g. I have google.com and I want to make sure that I have google.abcde, google.edfg etc etc)

- I also want to know when some of the domains that I would like will expire and possibly become available, so I can quickly buy them if I can. Just because a domain is expired, it doesn't mean it's available right away. But still, I'd like to keep my eye on them.

- Sometimes, it's just super interesting to see when some high profile names are available through obsecure TLDs (e.g. twitter.beauty, twitter.accountant, twitter.dealer domain names are available. What would happen if I buy them and do something with it. Twitter will probably come after me, but hey, it's an interesting thought. Maybe they'll buy them off? I don't know. What other high profile names are available through other TLDs?

cheers!

Self-hosted version? I have domains I'd like to track, but not sure if I feel comfortable disclosing that information to a third-party.

Signed up! Very useful... now please let me add multiple users to my account, and add 2FA. Please consider supporting Yubikey.

Oh and multiple GoDaddy accounts would be nice. and Gandi.net has an API too.

Nice suggestions! Will add to our backlog!

I believe the killer feature would be to automatically register the domain name as soon as it becomes available (à la SnapNames or DropCatch).

Could you elaborate more use cases? Who and why would someone monitor domains?

How are you checking this? Are you using an API?

Yes via API.

I have a bit of an algorithmic use-case to check for domain availability. If possible to share, which are the reliable API options to check for domains?

Neat!

Quick wish list; I’ve not tried it yet but I could see myself using it in the future. I’ve needed such a tool in the past.

- Login with google/gsuite

- API access

Your pricing seems weird by the way. Your free tier is super generous. I could see up to 5 free domains and have some features paywall gated such as automatically buying domains within a price range off Gandi or something.

I think you could be making assumptions about the target market / audience that differ from your own experience.

Since domain tasting became prohibited it’s common to have large portfolios and wait for someone else to drop a domain they don’t know how to monetize. These lists grow to the thousands pretty quickly, especially when you make data based decisions.

That said giving away your domain list / strategy to a third party is a risk in of itself.

Clickable

https://www.domainy.io

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