Show HN: Domain Name Trends – view trends in .com registrations over time
leandomainsearch.com
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About a year ago I launched Lean Domain Search on HackerNews [1]. For most of its existence it has focused on helping folks find available domain names for their websites. This new tool is an extension of that: it enables you to view .com domain name registrations for any topic over time.
The link I submitted here takes you straight to the search results for "3d print", though you can perform your own search using the field at the top of the page. The examples listed at the top of the page some of the more interesting (and often perplexing) trends that I've found.
I'd love to get your feedback. It's a new tool so if you run into any snags just let me know and I'll check it out. Thanks!
Perhaps more interesting would be something that extracts trends from time-series data.
Long term there's a lot more I want to do with it including showing hot trends by week and by month which will be more interesting than the by day trends.
There are a lot of visitors on the site and the load time can be slow (upwards of a minute in some cases). It will eventually load though. I'll work on speeding it up.
What I wanted to see was a visualization of all trends, showing what was popular when. This would let us see the overall trends of the internet, but displaying this Google Trends style doesn't really provide anything that interests me.
It kind of highlights the problem a lot of people have with data currently. This does a great job of displaying data, but it doesn't interpret the data. I wanted something that would tell me what's important instead of relying on me to figure that out. What can I say, I am like most people: lazy.
[1] http://www.leandomainsearch.com/trends/reports/2013/1/27
here is a recent hockey-stick: http://www.leandomainsearch.com/trends/explore?q=webrtc