Show HN: Shorter – search for shorter versions of your domain

shorter.dev

17 points·aanesn··11 comments

Warning in advance: This website adds a browser history entry for each keystroke, so if you plan on using your history for something, best to steer clear.

IMHO it’s better to just use .com .

By now .com is so popular that anything different is harder to memorize or even seen as untrustworthy (both by users and sometimes by platforms too).

agree for sure, i just think it's sometimes cool to have different tlds for like small projects and mby links

Not goood, says buy to domains that obviously aren't available.

Perhaps in the rush to send people to the affiliate site.

yea sorry about that it's just dns lookups for now, i'll try to switch to the dynadot api for availability mby just give me a sec

> it's just dns lookups for now

It's not even doing that- It wanted me to "Buy Now" google.com

So just reword it to 'check'

Nice! It's called "Domain hack" [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack

What if, instead of shorter versions, the tool focused on SEO optimization, for example, you enter a business name or idea, and it generates a highly SEO optimized domain name suggestion?

Does the actual domain itself affect search engine placement? Are shorter domains better, or what makes a domain good for SEO?

Nothing shorter than dogself.com ?!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com