Comments on: Bust a Name: Helping you find a darn domain

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:17:28 +0000

Karl,
Send an e-mail to help@bustaname.com and I’ll tell you about it.

Thanks,
Ryan

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:58:10 +0000

How do we get on the list of companies people can buy domains from? :)

By: Michael K

Michael K — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:59:25 +0000

I appreciate the AJAX interface, but is this tool really that useful? I find the domain suggestion tool at DomainTools.com to be much more pratical.

http://domain-suggestions.domaintools.com/

Of course, it requires a page-load for each submission, but it has the ability to make suggestions which actually make sense. Anyone could easily create an AJAX version using their API (which costs money).

By: Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:06:33 +0000

Looks good. One CSS suggestion: { cursor: move; } for the draggable names.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:52:50 +0000

Sweet! Now all the interns at cybersquatterz.net will have something to do this summer. ;)

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:08:37 +0000

Excellent work. I was considering doing something similar, but am really impressed with your execution. Very fast and responsive.

Couple ideas:
- allow connecting words with groups – ie group 1=”one two three”, 2=”four fix six”, with connecting word “and” would return oneandfour, twoandfour, etc
- allow rules – ie, to create your own suffix in addition to built in ones
- and for geeks, how about a field for regular expressions?

By: Dan F

Dan F — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:00:54 +0000

I’ll second the splicer idea. It’d be cool if it was to make thesaurus suggestions on base words so that they would end in TLD. eg: if I was to enter yummy, it’d suggest del.icio.us (which is obviously taken, but it was the only example I could think of).

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:12:54 +0000

Ryan,

What about a sort of splicer, which cuts up your word into subdomains and tests the last part as the domain name itself. Eg: del.icio.us, script.aculo.us.

Obviously this only works with the TLD being part of the word, but you could check the last two letters and see if there’s a TLD that’s identical, match the entered name minus the last two letters + TLD as those letters, and then a combination of spliced words where the first part of your domain becomes a sub.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:37:55 +0000

Also, anyone have any ideas for ways to create better suggestions? Or any other things that could be included?

Thanks,
Ryan

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:35:37 +0000

Here’s some features we have planned down the road:
1) The ability to create your own prefixes/suffixes
2) Saving your searches
3) Automatically adding in similar words
4) Combine 3 words

Also, we are working on a “random word generator” that generates words that, um aren’t really words, but sound like they might be. (Think fandango.com or wufuoo.com)

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:52:29 +0000

As a Ajax app it’s rather good. I agree with the above, you need more prefix’s,suffix’s I’d suggest also maybe having a thesaurus option.

instantdomainsearch.com has something similar ..

to answer hello kitty, I haven’t seen an effective app on any register’s site that is this functional and fast

By: justin

justin — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:03:24 +0000

Great idea, but as was said befor eit ddn’t offer very many alternatives/combos.

By: Hello Kitty

Hello Kitty — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:08:46 +0000

Sorry to be the negative guy, but haven’t most major domain registrars offered a service like this for years? If you type in a name that is in use, they offer alternatives based on the words that you used.

@Ben: While it’s the only high quality free icon set out there, that probably won’t change anytime soon.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:48:53 +0000

That’s really neat! I love the low latency, it’s one thing to offer suggestions but to report on availability of so many names in such a short timeframe is pretty cool.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:09:24 +0000

I like it. It doesn’t generate as many combinations as I would like, but beyond that it’s very usable.