We built a search engine for One Word Domains that are still available. Honest feedback needed

[Decentraliseur]

Hi guys, we recently released a platform that lists all the available one word domains based on the english dictionary.
You can filter them via:

• Artificial Intelligence, by describing your business in a few words, spits out the most promising domains (designed for business owners who are looking to elevate their brand & SEO through a great domain).
• Advanced filters: price, market type, brandability, word type, demand level, word popularity, positivity level, … (made for domain investors)

And of course, you can combine both!


To build this tech, we spent months and hundreds of dollars to train an AI that scans and analyses great domains based on 10GB+ of english lexical data.

Roadmap​

• Add support of 150+ TLDs
• Opportunities: weekly selection of investment opportunities (based on global trends)
• Export results in CSV
• Business idea generation based on any domain
• SEO analysis of domains
• Generate logo packs
• Resale price estimation

Access unique.domains​

You can try the service with 5 free searches (2 clicks signup)

But I give 1,000 credits to everyone who subscribes to the LinkedIn page and provides constructive feedback in the comments.

We're currently two cofounders working part time on it (I'm the tech one), and we would love to have your feedback on our app so we can improve it
Feel free to let me know what you think of the service and share your best critiques

 

[VadimK]

The main drawback for me right off the bat is that the system requires you to log in or sign up before even performing your first search. Come on, I’m not going to log in and provide my email and other personal information to some completely unknown service, especially when I can’t even do a single search for free to get an idea of what to expect.

 

[alcy]

yea login makes u look lame as shit

 

[ARCCLOUD]

The main drawback for me right off the bat is that the system requires you to log in or sign up before even performing your first search. Come on, I’m not going to log in and provide my email and other personal information to some completely unknown service, especially when I can’t even do a single search for free to get an idea of what to expect.

Agreed. It should be optional. For saved searches, watch list etc.

 

[Future Sensors]

It's just an affiliate service.

 

[alcy]

It's just an affiliate service.

u mean like a scam service?

 

[Future Sensors]

u mean like a scam service?

I don't immediately think so. But the revenue model is clear and it does not seem to add much value. For me, at least.

 

[alcy]

I don't immediately think so. But the revenue model is clear and it does not seem to add much value. For me, at least.

yea

well anyway.. if I'm gonna spend 3mins of my life with logins to test someone site I wanna get paid for that

 

[Future Sensors]

 

[Future Sensors]

 

[Decentraliseur]

The main drawback for me right off the bat is that the system requires you to log in or sign up before even performing your first search. Come on, I’m not going to log in and provide my email and other personal information to some completely unknown service, especially when I can’t even do a single search for free to get an idea of what to expect.

yea login makes u look lame as shit

Agreed. It should be optional. For saved searches, watch list etc.

I understand your point on giving your name and email to an unknown service
To ask a login or not was (and is still) a big dilemma to me.

I want everyone to have a preview of my service easily, but each search cost me few cents, so I want to prevent abuse from bots and scraping.

The only solution I found Is at least to require login, as IP and fingerprint checking is too easy to bypass.
If you have ideas guys I'm reading them with pleasure

That said before I find a better solution, you can still use the preview searches like the "Artificial Intelligence" one

 

[Decentraliseur]

I don't immediately think so. But the revenue model is clear and it does not seem to add much value. For me, at least.

The revenue model is based on subscriptions, as well as referral links to Name.com, Godaddy, Sedo, ... to cover the tech investment & monthly cost
However you're a little bit hard saying Unique Domains "just" an affiliate service
Our domains scanner and categoriser has been built from scratch in the space of months of hard work, and I'm doing my best to improve the relevance of the results regularly. I honestly don't think there is a such advanced search API / app on the market

 

[Future Sensors]

 

[Future Sensors]

This is your co-founder?

 

[alcy]

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kinda hot

 

[Decentraliseur]

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She edited her photo with an AI (not sure she used stable diffusion) to make the background more .. I would say "linkedin compatible"

 

[alcy]

I think my next gf is just gonna be ai

it's so much easier

 

[VadimK]

The revenue model is based on subscriptions, as well as referral links to Name.com, Godaddy, Sedo, ... to cover the tech investment & monthly cost
However you're a little bit hard saying Unique Domains "just" an affiliate service
Our domains scanner and categoriser has been built from scratch in the space of months of hard work, and I'm doing my best to improve the relevance of the results regularly. I honestly don't think there is a such advanced search API / app on the market

I don't think your model will work for domainers at all. Indeed, it's an affiliate website; it's just that you trained your AI model in a way to prioritize names based on the description provided. But then it feeds into some "whale" (like GoDaddy and similar) database, where, as results, you get 70% premium or owned prices (e.g., prices in the thousands), mixed with some pretty bad leftovers, mostly of extensions no one uses (or even knows of). But the truth is that any domainer can play for free in any of these registrars directly using their so-called "AI-empowered search" tools. Your site brings no added value for domainers for any type of payment, let alone monthly payments. And even for free, to be honest, since domainers don't really know how you trained your AI model.

I am sorry, I don't want to be harsh on you, since it's understandable you put effort, time, and money into this, but it's my honest opinion.

What you probably would be better off doing is pivoting and offering this service to end-using clients who are looking for a domain name for their project or business. It's going to be extremely hard as well, but at least theoretically, it's possible. Of course, you'll have to switch from monthly payments to some sort of "buy credits" model and put a huge amount of time into marketing (and money too, of course), but at least there's a small chance (with domainers, it's zero, imo).

Good luck anyway!

 

[Decentraliseur]

I don't think your model will work for domainers at all. Indeed, it's an affiliate website; it's just that you trained your AI model in a way to prioritize names based on the description provided. But then it feeds into some "whale" (like GoDaddy and similar) database, where, as results, you get 70% premium or owned prices (e.g., prices in the thousands), mixed with some pretty bad leftovers, mostly of extensions no one uses (or even knows of). But the truth is that any domainer can play for free in any of these registrars directly using their so-called "AI-empowered search" tools. Your site brings no added value for domainers for any type of payment, let alone monthly payments. And even for free, to be honest, since domainers don't really know how you trained your AI model.

I am sorry, I don't want to be harsh on you, since it's understandable you put effort, time, and money into this, but it's my honest opinion.

What you probably would be better off doing is pivoting and offering this service to end-using clients who are looking for a domain name for their project or business. It's going to be extremely hard as well, but at least theoretically, it's possible. Of course, you'll have to switch from monthly payments to some sort of "buy credits" model and put a huge amount of time into marketing (and money too, of course), but at least there's a small chance (with domainers, it's zero, imo).

Good luck anyway!

I'm open to any type of feedback, especially negative ones as they are the best resources to improve.
But only in the case of you tried the service, not just based on speculation Vladim

Actually, Unique Domain's database isn't feed by domain marketplaces or registrars at all. The only connection there is for checking the price

By testing it, you may notice the results are far more relevant to your query (with long tail lexical associations based on 1.2M classified english expressions) compared to Godaddy's crap for example, which silly add prefixes and some related words. So there is a real scanning system and search engine behind the hood, not dumb api calls to the search endpoint of Godaddy

Also, your remark about premium domains isn't relevant since you can simply filter results by market type (premium, available, and soon we will add auctions)

If you're interested, I can explain how searches technically works

That said your suggestion about credits is a good point. We will rethink about our pricing system and maybe include ondemand search credits

 

[alcy]

all dis ai talk make me wonder when not if we can ask ai to code and make a domain market site for us..

and a domain lander

what u think an ai made domai lander will look like

probably kinda cool huh