Created a search tool, is it of any use?

[akael]

I created a windows program to help me find available domain names, and thought I could ask you guys for some input.

Basically the program takes a word list, or multiple word lists as input, and searches for domains from the list.

Obviously most of the decent words are already taken, and therefore I created a couple other features.

1) It can check for word combos (example: [word1][word2].[TLD] or [word2][word1].[TLD])

Word combos can be be of any number of words.

2) You can search with prefixes and suffixes. (example: [prefix][wordfromlist].[TLD] or [wordfromlist][suffix].[TLD])

There are a few other cool features as well.

It works amazingly fast, so I built in a config to slow down the searches.

Any idea if a tool like this would be of use to anybody else?

 

[DU]

I created a windows program to help me find available domain names, and thought I could ask you guys for some input.

Basically the program takes a word list, or multiple word lists as input, and searches for domains from the list.

Obviously most of the decent words are already taken, and therefore I created a couple other features.

1) It can check for word combos (example: [word1][word2].[TLD] or [word2][word1].[TLD])

Word combos can be be of any number of words.

2) You can search with prefixes and suffixes. (example: [prefix][wordfromlist].[TLD] or [wordfromlist][suffix].[TLD])

There are a few other cool features as well.

It works amazingly fast, so I built in a config to slow down the searches.

Any idea if a tool like this would be of use to anybody else?

Yes. Lots of people use rudimentary spreadsheets to make things like:

AlbuquerqueSalons
BostonSalons
....
WinstonSalemSalons

etc etc

I don't think many domainers would be willing to pay for it though... at least not very much unless there was some compelling addon (throw in some Google keyword stats...history etc)..

J.

 

[glaxxon]

Can be put to good use if you can also add features like Import and export from files, llll, lllll, etc other pattern based domain search too.
Though there are a few other programs that do this, but not all in one generally.

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You can look at domain research tool. It offers quite a lot of features too.

 

[akael]

Yes. Lots of people use rudimentary spreadsheets to make things like:

AlbuquerqueSalons
BostonSalons
....
WinstonSalemSalons

etc etc

I don't think many domainers would be willing to pay for it though... at least not very much unless there was some compelling addon (throw in some Google keyword stats...history etc)..

J.

Thanks for the response. I don't think I would sell it, but maybe give it away to a few people to get some feedback. Maybe I could even open source it, and go that route.

 

[glaxxon]

That is a great idea. If you want I can check out your work and suggest features and improvements for it.

 

[akael]

Can be put to good use if you can also add features like Import and export from files, llll, lllll, etc other pattern based domain search too.
Though there are a few other programs that do this, but not all in one generally.

---------- Post added at 11:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:27 AM ----------

You can look at domain research tool. It offers quite a lot of features too.

The tool does allow you to import and export lists from files already.

It also does have wildcard searching. The wildcards it supports are:

L = Letter
N = Number
? = Letter, Number or Dash
[*L] = upto a certain number of letters
[*N] = upto a certain number of numbers
[*?] = upto a certain number of L/N/-

• = Pulled from a list in the application
  
  Wildcard searches are capable of finding a ton of very random domain names, and if not used properly will cause more work than help actually.