A faster instant domain search

by rantfoil • 18 years ago

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aston2• 18 years ago

Great UI. Really takes advantage of the blurring of the line between perception of responsiveness and perception of actual speed. I don't think it's that much faster in real terms than instantdomainsearch, but it feels like it's way speedier.

whacked_new• 18 years ago

It actually took me a while to figure out that red meant unavailable and blue meant available. And even after, that they have the same size and brightness made me miss IDS's clarity. But otherwise, I agree.

savrajsingh• 18 years ago

I had the same problem -- wasn't sure what blue or red meant, so I had to run some obvious tests.

dmnd• 18 years ago

It is a great UI, but I would suggest having the site turn off my browser's autocomplete so the results are not obscured.

riklomas• 18 years ago

Yeah, the input needs autocomplete="off" adding to it, otherwise you can't quite see what you're doing

petercooper• 18 years ago

The way it shows the shorter / trimmed variants of what you type is interesting but not, I feel, particularly useful. It has a nice UI though and does seem very fast! It also only does com, net and org, whereas ajaxwhois, for example, does biz, us, info and ca.

Two alternatives:

http://www.ajaxwhois.com/ http://www.instantdomainsearch.com/

A "sort of" alternative (requires a click but comes up with better results for word mixes): http://www.bustaname.com/

I'd rather like to see one that can also do .co.uk, just being a Brit and all :) I have a few customers who would use such a thing.

nextmoveone• 18 years ago

kind of like... squurl.com as well

johnrob• 18 years ago

Fantastic!

chaostheory• 18 years ago

dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177270

jfarmer• 18 years ago

There's also http://domainzomg.com/

hendra• 18 years ago

simple but cool ;)

aseever• 18 years ago

I really need something like this, and I think they've nailed the UX... but it appears to use GoDaddy to do the whois. I don't have any personal experience but a quick google search will back me up when I assert they are notorious for not being trustworthy with your whois queries. A site like this that I felt like I could trust would be a daily destination for me.

rrival• 18 years ago

It's way too fast for whois. They're probably using the COM/NET/ORG Zone files in a nicely indexed db. I'd be interested to know more about the back end - they get points for responsiveness.

aston2• 18 years ago

Bug report: typing a ' leads to a JS error. Yay, quotes.

Feynman• 18 years ago

I guess instant isn't fast enough now? Wow, tough crowd of users! =)

Retric• 18 years ago

Still buggy pogo.com showed up as free and it's not.

okeumeni• 18 years ago

Needs better colors; I can barely see existing domains list. Cool stuff!

A faster instant domain search

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