volodymyr_f

I would really appreciate that. You can email me at volodymyr.floreskul+hn@gmail.com.

Wow, great advice.

You are right, I'll take that into account.

Maybe I was confused because the domain for this project was registered through Gandi.net and I had to pay that tax as I currently live in the EU. :)

For now this tool does not help to find such domains, but it sounds like a really nice feature to implement, thanks.

I didn't want to make anyone upset with this tool.

The current version of the service is based on the DNS lookup, which is not always accurate. The errors may happen when a domain does not have a name server record specified or it is in the a redemption period.

The current version is an experiment that checks if such a tool can be useful for people. All the received feedback will be used to improve it. Using more reliable approach of domain availability checking for sure has the highest priority.

The domains are shown in a random (but fixed) order at the moment, but I think it's better to sort them by price. Do you have any better criteria on your mind?

Done

Good, feature request received. :)

Thank you for your feedback and the great idea about the domain hacks implementation. :)

The prices are shown with the included taxes and ICANN fees, which all registrars calculate a bit differently. I tried to make them as much comparable as possible. The total price for .com domain at Gandi.net is indeed 18.54 (https://www.gandi.net/domain/price/detail/com/)

Which other registrars would you like to be included?

Thank your for the detailed feedback!

You can get the availability for most of the known TLD if you specify the fully qualified domain name in the input. I am going to tune the list of the shown TLDs in order to have the most popular/interesting ones there.

Which registrars would you like to be added?

You can just type the domain name with ccTLD included, e.g. "google.us". It will show in the top row.

Thanks for the great feature request! Will work on that.

Currently the domain check is done via simple DNS lookups. It's not the most reliable way, but it's very fast. Although there is a small probability of checking result errors, for the MVP I decided to stop with this solution.

I plan to apply for TLD Zone Access programs (like http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/products-and-services/domai...) if this project gets a positive feedback. That would help to keep things both fast and reliable.

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I forgot about the favicon, will add that. I am glad you liked it.

Hi Everyone,

This is a domain availability checking tool with a simple clean design, a website preview for taken domains and a price comparison for the available ones.

Some details about the used technologies are in my blog post at http://floreskul.name/post/introducing-instantname-me. I would appreciate any feedback. :)

Thanks