kirillzubovsky

So dark! Unless you change the theme of course.

I showed your comment to my friend, and here's what he said:

"That’s like the texting app that makes you take a test. Basically stops you from drunk texting! Haha"

Oh yeah, good point. It's always such a pain to find social handles, and then register them all. Maybe I'll offer a premium plan that just does it all in one step. Thanks for the suggestion!

I prompted it with a description of SmartyNames and then refreshed a few times until I got the result I was satisfied with. So yes, name was found purely with AI :)

As per affiliates, I've applied to a few programs today, hopefully they'll take me before all the traffic dies down.

Great! It means it's actually finding good names. Thanks for letting me know!

Haha. I wish I was that evil, or rich. Unfortunately just making fun stuff with AI.

Definitely. I'll be adding a premium label soon to domains that are a bit pricy like that.

I switched to Domainr mid-morning because I ran out quota on DNSimple. Then I ran out of quota on Domainr :) There's been 120,000 domains generated today.

The issue was most likely my mistake. I think I fixed it. Let's see how it performs in the next few days.

Definitely. I was going to launch with them, but then realize it would clutter the experience. Now that I have a good list of desired features from the HN crowd, I 'll be adding those, including other TLDS. Thanks for asking!

This is a little funny and a little embarrassing. Because we've been having issues with identifying some domain which are for sale, but too expensive, I decided to go very strict on the filter - anything that is "active" gets rejected, regardless of their potential availability. Silly me coded it as "if includes `active` then not available." I forgot that includes (in ruby) just looks at the string, so "inactive" is also rejected. Fixing it now...

Most of the time the tool is getting it right, even though it's not always free. Some domains are available for sale, but are currently squatted.

Fun fact, I just did a search for: "Evil domain registration service that will query for the best names and will register them before you can."

I found an excellent short .com that is available for a regular price. Now sure if I should grab it, now that I've already got a name. It's so tempting!

You are clever!

Actually, I think I will try to go on step further and for domains that are taken, run another loop to try and find similar but available names. Will report back when/if it works.

Sounds interesting. I'll find a way to work user input into model training.

I agree. I personally own about 100 domains but use 10% of them. The other 20% are duplicates and misspelling of the first 10, so I am kind of using them too, but a big chunk is definitely sitting there waiting.

One of the problems is that no one wants to "spoil" their domains. I don't know if this is true or not, but I've pinged some domain owners before asking to rent their domains, and they said no, suggesting that once I've tainted their domain with my project, it is not longer as valuable.

If we could put 90% of the squatted domains for rent, even if it was like $100/m in rent, it could open so many opportunities!

I will try it in the next few days and report back. Most likely a combination approach would be the best - check against the known data, then double-check with API on case-by-case basis. I might require login to get extra data, so it would be just a subset of users doing a deep-dive. Thank you!

I would love to , but the registrars made it very hard to link to them in a meaningful way. I applied to some GoDaddy referral program and waiting to hear back. Other folks, like DNSimple, are awesome, but they don't even have a way to link domain to referral. I am hearing it is a very competitive business these days.

I double-checked this manually. It seems the domain itself isn't responding, but in the database it's marked as "marketed", which means the owner has it for sale. At least that's my understanding of it right now.

Yup, someone's suggested that. I might do it going forward, if it's allowed, but for the first day I tried to prioritize getting it out there.

Also, I have another project for which I store a huge amount of data, and as it turns out, data costs a lot of money to store! Depends on the size of the list, I might be better off paying for the Domainr API.

oh yeah, I hope...!

I love that. That is the slickest way to show all the extensions in one go.

It seems like I will definitely have to create sign-in option, to allow users to save domains, but also to make sure I don't get flooded with spam.

Apparently it's very likely that scrapers are going to use me for a free service. But, one thing at a time. Thank you for the suggestions, definitely adding them to my list!

For anyone who is interested, after about [edited] 40k requests, this has cost me $10 in OpenAI charges and another estimated ~$100 in domain verification.

Thank you! On a rare occasion it would report taken as available; most often it reports domains that are for sale privately or at a high price as available because well, theoretically they are available, just not for a good price of $12, but something like 3 to 10 thousand dollars. I should find a way to filter those and perhaps mark them as "premium".

Thanks, although I am not currently recording the queries or their responses. I thought it was more valuable to make something interesting and useful than to harvest it on day one.

OMG I hope you bought it. That's priceless.

Wow! Those must have been really good names. Do you have some examples?

Definitely on my feature list. Will let you know once it's available!

Oops! Hacker News folks are too kind. Just got rate-limited again, by the new API this time. I think 11k requests in less than hour was a bit too much. Working with them to increase the limit!

So much value, already delivered! :D

Thanks!