What would you like to see in my software? (Your opinion matters!)

[x11joex11]

As you know I'm the programmer for domain name finder, located at dnfinder.net, I'm always looking for suggestions from people to update the software with features they want to see, I plan to update every 2 weeks with new features, when people buy they get free updates for life and say in what scripts are added.

I was thinking of adding in .CN or .IN support next, but does anyone have any cool ideas for a script to make searching that perfect domain easier?

I was thinking of adding in IDN support as well and making a new dictionary tab for IDN dictionaries, like japanese terms etc, and a puny code converter all in one program =). I think it would be really cool. What do you guys think? What do you want to see?

This is a list of the current features.

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L=Letter
N=Number
V=Vowel
**

LL
NN
LN
NL

LLL
NNN
NLL
LNN
LNL
NLN
LLN
NNL

LVL (letter vowel letter)

LLLL
NNNN

LVLV (letter vowel letter vowel) - finds pronounceable 4 letters (only 20,000 possible)
VLVL (vowel letter vowel letter)
VVVV (vowel vowel vowel vowel)

Full unabridged dictionary search
Custom File Search

Custom Dictionaries with program:

- First names
- Last names
- Thousand most common words
- Second most thousand common words

TLD's Supported

.COM
.NET
.ORG (minimal, working on fixing)
.BIZ
.INFO
.US
.CC
.TV
.EU (new!)

That is pretty much where it stands now.

Also you guys think I should invest the $300-400 for a banner at the top advertisement?

 

[.X.]

IDN would be awesome....It sounds like you have written a very nice DN finder,,,I would definatly invest the money to advertise.

 

[-Raja-]

IDN????........greattttt
ALL THE BEST JOE

 

[dongan]

i like to see .IN domains

 

[x11joex11]

Alright I'll write a IDN to punycode converter that will check IDN lists, and I'll find those lists and add it to a IDN dictionary section. I'll also see if I can make it show a translation for those IDN's. I will also add in .IN =).

 

[Damion]

When you talk about ''Custom File Search'' does this mean i could enter my own list of specific keywords?
Just want to be sure?

 

[x11joex11]

Custom File Search lets you currently for example, say you wanted to see all the different combinations of arcade against a custom list of words or the dictionaries in my program you set where you want arcade to show in front or back, and then it'll generate a custom list and then you use that custom list with the options you want to search with (limiting by characters if you want to shorten the searches to the best) and locate the best possible keyword(combination) words or whatever you wanted to check. It's useful if you want to check every different combination of common words like, cafe, arcade, space,travel, etc.

 

[peaches017]

It would be great to check all the extensions you could. I know .SC works well in DNA at least.

 

[Damion]

That's nice to hear x11joex11!!

 

[x11joex11]

I just finised adding in .IN , and .CN, though there whoisserver's are slow I'm adding in a missed check option so as it goes through the names it goes back to check names that were skipped do to connections being refused. I'm working on a system with proxies as well, and an overture checker for names (and automated appraisal method). It's not updated yet, but look forward to it this friday.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Down ATM?

Unable to connect













Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at dnfinder.net.
* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

-Allan :?

 

[mrfike]

Allan,
I'd like to see category-specific keywords that don't suck. Sounds easy, but it is actually pretty difficult to find. Also limiting number and type of characters without specifically saying "LNLN" or "LCN" etc is pretty standard. The abilityto search one or two keywords and get "recommendations" would be nice too. I've seen lots that will tell you if "BigBox.com"is available, but not many utilities that will figure out that "LargeContainer.com" is available if big and box are your keys.
I don't know, seems like you've got most of the bases covered already.
IMHO, I wouldn't throw that kind of cash at a banner, when there's so much more out there that's significantly cheaper and more targeted.

 

[x11joex11]

Thanks for the input, now as far as price is concerned I was thinking my price of $49.99 was fair considering the price of other software out there. I even offer discount programs for people in the industry or if they are low on cash (with conviently a lot of people seem to be =P, but I'm too nice I guess). Anyways in LLLL search they can remove certain characters from the search, I can add that ability to the LLL as well, and when I say LLL I mean 3 characters versus 4 characters, my system is designed on a character length basis. The value of words IMHO changes based on the length considerably, so there are different factors to look for with different lengths. For example dashes are good with 2 letters, but with 4 letters are worthless, etc (in general). I plan to update midnight friday I just added .CN and .IN but I'm trying to fix the missed questions.

As far as dnfinder.net being down I just checked and it looks up to me. When did you try to connect?

As for category specific keywords, I got firstname dictionary, last name dictionary, thousand most common words, and second most thousand common words, any dictionary reccomendations, I can throw them in with the next update. I'm thinking of getting medical terms dictionary. Since I took a course in medical terminology, I could use my data files I made for my software EZ! Medical Terminology (http://ezmedterms.com). Check it out if you want. I'm adding IDN word lists also if anyone can submit some to me that would be great! Credit will be given to your site (if you have one) in the resouces if so.

 

[gingeman]

Really looking forward to the update you got coming joe- if the changes you tolde me about are going to be included this will be one serious piece of kit- also filtering names about to drop will be extremely useful. :tu:

 

[x11joex11]

I updated the program, this update includes .CN and .IN for searches, I still need some time to add in IDN and the auto find expiring names feature since every TLD gives a different message I have to prepare something for each one, and it won't work on every TLD do to the limitations on the whois server, for example .EU is near impossible, at least until I figure out proxy support. So for now you can download to have .IN and .CN support (it's limited, slow), but it is there, and the ability to catch missed domains is in there also. It's a small update for 1.1, but do expect more by next friday, just taking me a while to figure this out. IDN is a bit complicated and so are proxies =).

Also I'm thinking of lowering the price a bit on my program, but am still wondering on what a good price would be? Obviously free is nice, but to pay for the site I have to ask for at least something, I was thinking of making the program affordable for all domainers so there is no question to the greatness of the software =P. I was thinking lowering the price to $29.99 for now and keeping it there, that is about the price of regging one .CC name on domainsite. I think a fair price for a program that you'll be spending probably a lot more money with =P. Let me know what you guys think is a good price and a reason why it should be priced that way if you believe it should be more or less. I really appreciate it and will give rep =).

 

[Damion]

$29.99 would be a fair price in my opinion Joey, you made a lot of effort to get this to work and keep it working.
Nice job!

 

[x11joex11]

$29.99 seems to be the magic number I think we'll see what more people say.

 

[texasgamer]

You can target different peoples income levels and what they may spend on software by making three different versions.
A Basic Version for 19.99
A Standard Version for 29.99
An Advanced Version for 49.99
The Advanced Version would be the most robust and have the most features and so forth.

 

[x11joex11]

That is true, I could have different levels, question is now what should be in basic versus standard, and advanced hmmm... I could have basic include all basic built in search functions allowed but you still can't load custom lists, standard allows you to do everything, and advanced will let you use the proxies and IDN abilities for extra speed or something. Any other ideas?

 

[jimmeh]

and remember, he does have his free version for us that cant put forward alot of money at all :D