Show HN: Domain Name Trends – view trends in .com registrations over time

http://www.leandomainsearch.com/trends/explore?q=3d+print

by matt1 • 13 years ago

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matt14• 13 years ago

Hey guys,

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!

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3470977

scoot2• 13 years ago

I like the idea, and if you have topics for which you think trends might exist it's a useful too to validate that, but the "Hot Trends" report doesn't show trends, as there's no time function, it's just a snapshot of popular topics on a particular day, easily skewed by one person bulk-registering a bunch of related domains.

Perhaps more interesting would be something that extracts trends from time-series data.

matt14• 13 years ago

Hey, appreciate the feedback. Originally I had planned on launching this tool without the hot topics features but had some free time this weekend so I implemented a quick v1.

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.

matt14• 13 years ago

Heads up for anyone trying it right now:

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.

dmak• 13 years ago

It's loading something, and I am not sure what. Is this cached?

helloamar• 13 years ago

That's a nice idea,

ErikRogneby• 13 years ago

pretty slick.

here is a recent hockey-stick: http://www.leandomainsearch.com/trends/explore?q=webrtc

scoot2• 13 years ago

Not so much a hockey-stick as a spike, and most likely one domainer bulk registering a bunch of related domains.

highace• 13 years ago

I remember when you launched. How are things going? Is this a full time endeavour?

JeremyKolb• 13 years ago

I like this idea, but when I opened it, it wasn't at all what I expected.

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.

matt14• 13 years ago

Hey Jeremy, appreciate the feedback. The hot domain trend reports are my first hack helping visitors identify trends so that they don't have to think of them on their own. The current version is fairly simple [1], but eventually it will contain a lot more clear-cut domain name intelligence.

[1] http://www.leandomainsearch.com/trends/reports/2013/1/27

Show HN: Domain Name Trends – view trends in .com registrations over time

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