Show HN: Aha Domain Search
https://www.ahadomainsearch.com/
Hey everyone!Years ago, one of my favorite domain search tools, Lean Domain Search [1], was acquired by Automattic. Unfortunately, that's when the "enshitification" began, particularly when they started forcing the `.blog` TLD in search results.
After discovering the simplicity of RDAP lookups, which can be done by fetching a JSON response directly from the client (e.g., `https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/ycombinator.com`), I decided it was finally time to build my own solution.
Here's how it works:
The first tab appends prefixes and suffixes to your chosen word and queries the Verisign API directly from your browser. No data is sent to my server.
The AI tab attempts more intelligent prefixing with the optional context.
The "Quirky" tab generates variations of the affix search through trivial merging (for instance, for the word "brain," "brain" + "node" becomes "brainode," and "hub" + "brain" becomes "hubrain").
The "Portmanteau" tab was inspired by this HN submission [2] and my personal desire [3] to see it function as a domain name generator. I'm using AI, though, as it was easier and faster to implement and get this up and running ASAP.
I'm all ears for suggestions and feedback!
[1]: https://leandomainsearch.com/ [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19241236 [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19245396
thanks
OP. Sorry to be harsh but this is awful UX in terms of reviewing search results. Every thing I search said 0 available so I searched again and again. Then I scrolled down and noticed they were being checked as I scrolled and the number of available domains matching actually become >0. Not how i want to see the results.
No problem, it can be improved by using the Verisign .com domain list that is updated daily. I just wanted to try something that I could ship in a couple of days after learning about RDAP and that it allowed client side requests.
If there's interested in the service, I'll improve it.
You can sign up with Verisign and they let you download a text file with all the registered .com domains, updated daily.
[1]: https://mattmazur.com/2018/05/18/extracting-a-list-of-all-re...
https://www.verisign.com/en_US/domain-names/registration-dat...
Could be worth adding some kind of 'only show available domains' option
(edit: realizing this may require a rework of how the underlying availability checking process works, but could be worthwhile)
>Could be worth adding some kind of 'only show available domains' option
Yes, that will require a rework, but I'm willing to do it if this gets any traction.
[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_prefixes
Very cool! I will use this.
But your suggestions are not good. It's just "stick words on the front or end.
The simplest thing you can improve is include variants of the word. If I say "kayak", then kayaks and kayaking are closer to my intent than "wikikayak". Getting this right would be your secret sauce.
Obviously, non .com domains would make this much more valuable.
add a filter of "only show available domains" would be very helpful.
maybe have the option to do prefix and suffix? Probably only useful with AI or some algorithm that makes them related. MyKayakHome isn't bad.
On the quirky tab, you don't display the domain names, you show "sug+". I assume this is supposed to be added to the stem, but it's not consistent. "a+" guard gives "aguard", but "sug+" guard gives "suguard", where is the extra G?
Either way, please just show the domain name.
If I select the text for the name of a domain, you should not pop up the domain info box.
One the ai tab, I got "An error occurred in the Server Components render. The specific message is omitted in production builds to avoid leaking sensitive details. A digest property is included on this error instance which may provide additional details about the nature of the error."
On the main page, the search button is always disabled, but hitting enter works (firefox/mac). hmm not reproducible after reload.
Some words are more likely to occur in conjunction with specific words. Kayak and water, for example is probably more likely than kayak and tiger.
You might try something like a collocations data set like https://www.freecollocation.com/ (I just searched for dataset of English word collocations)
Any autocomplete that words more than one word at a time has to do this. You might check that out.
https://www.domize.io/