Show HN: Namealong – Domain search that pairs your query with 4114 other words(namealong.com)
namealong.com
Show HN: Namealong – Domain search that pairs your query with 4114 other words
https://www.namealong.com
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> when you hover over or click on domain names, an additional WHOIS check is done to verify availability
This causes so many duplicate requests, like 5+ per domain
This causes so many duplicate requests, like 5+ per domain
Interesting. The check should only be done once on hover (even if you mouseover multiple times) and then again on click, so I'll have to investigate.
Add a filter option to know which domain is available and which is not.
Yeah, the false positives are annoying, but this is the best balance of speed and accuracy I could think of. The only way to guarantee availability is a WHOIS lookup, which takes 50ms+ per domain, so to check thousands of options would take minutes.
I'm adding a cache of the WHOIS results though, so will hopefully be able to filter a lot more of the false positives from the initial search results in the future.
I'm adding a cache of the WHOIS results though, so will hopefully be able to filter a lot more of the false positives from the initial search results in the future.
> but this is the best balance of speed and accuracy
Well, you don’t need to load them all at once, make lazy load, every 10 loaded once.
> The only way to guarantee availability is a WHOIS lookup, which takes 50ms+ per domain,
I remember I used a site before that check domains in the fly and it was fast, it didn’t load everything at once so probably that’s the trick.
Well, you don’t need to load them all at once, make lazy load, every 10 loaded once.
> The only way to guarantee availability is a WHOIS lookup, which takes 50ms+ per domain,
I remember I used a site before that check domains in the fly and it was fast, it didn’t load everything at once so probably that’s the trick.
Let me know if you have any feedback or feature ideas!
I like it!
That's fast, but semi-inaccurate, so when you hover over or click on domain names, an additional WHOIS check is done to verify availability.
If this all sounds familiar, Lean Domain Search used to do this exact same thing, but earlier this year they added .blog domains to the search results with no way to filter them out, making the tool basically useless for .com searches.