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anonymous
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Postedabout 2 months agoActiveabout 2 months ago
Show HN: I built a search engine for all domains on the internet
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Asking to sign in without any ability to test something is disappointing.
Sign-in is free is costs you nothing.
But I'll think on providing access to the domain search engine (limited dataset, may be) to anyone without asking registration. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, really appreciate that!!!
I get that and frankly, agree with you. However, from my experience, even a tiny hurdle in front of the user before they can try something out can cost you a significant amount of users unless you are already well established.
about 2 months ago
That's fair. Thank you for pointing me out on this. Let me think what can I do here to provide such experience for users. Appreciate you shared your opinion!
You should include a page with stats on number of active and expired pr. TLD.
about 2 months ago
Good suggestion, thank you! Will work on that!
Suggestion: have a public view of some selected domains, so that we can see what info your service provides without having to sign up. For instance, https://domainexplorer.io/explore/meta
How hard it was to get access to those daily updated zone files?
Make sense, thanks for sharing!
I've thought about that and have this in my plans.
> How hard it was to get access to those daily updated zone files?
Some are easy, some are harder. Few months ago I've built and launched zone file data provider (https://allzonefiles.io) that DomainExplorer uses. Having that, accessing zone files is fairly easy.
about 2 months ago
Fantastic, that's something that I might be interested for my domain search tool. Nice dogfooding.