Who actually owns the domain you build your site on? If ClaimYourName.io gets people to register their own name as a domain but retains ownership that could turn ugly if you wanted to leave the service and keep 'your' domain name, or if ClaimYourName.io goes under.<p>In the small town where I grew up the One Guy at the biggest web agency quit in anger, and since nobody else at that company had the passwords to liberate the domains, dozens of businesses in my town had to buy new domains and reprint all their material with new URLS on it. What a headache :S
Really great dylan. Addressing the overhead of DNS settings, and a cumbersome flow for getting a site up (especially for people who aren't too familiar with routing, etc.)<p>I'd promote the email-address thing a bit more. Often people want a branded email address, but don't know exactly how to go bout it. That would stand out to me (eg. plug-and-play with your existing gmail)<p>Best of luck!
There was another one of these that made it to the top of Product Hunt the other day...I don't remember the name. They didn't disclose on their lander whether or not they handled domain based email though, so I would say this one is at least better described if not actually better.<p>I get the value proposition, but I wonder if the positive response to this concept on HN & PH is from actual potential customers, or is one of those things that sounds to a technical crowd like a good idea for our less technical friends. I guess I am curious how many people that would need a simple service like this are interested in owning their own domain.
It's working, neat, well explained, direct and fast. I like it.<p>A <i>little</i> suggestion: the monthly charge on the billing page could have its own explanation too as does the annual one, I'm not sure.
Been working on this project for a few weeks now. You can see an example of a site built with it here: <a href="http://www.dylanbfox.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.dylanbfox.com</a>. I wanted to get a personal site up, but didn't feel like building one or spending hours configuring themes on other DIY website builders. That's where the idea for this came from.<p>Would love feedback on what features I should focus on adding!
It would be really cool if you could add SSL encryption by default once some service like Lets Encrypt [1] which issues SSL certificates if you can prove your domain name launches. Not sure how this jives with their terms of use though.<p>[1] <a href="https://letsencrypt.org" rel="nofollow">https://letsencrypt.org</a>
Nice!
What do you think about asking a user for the place they live? E.g. German people would also get to choose a .de domain, Polish people .pl one, etc.
Just curious. Where/who is the proposed domain hoster? Any technical data could also be useful. I see the point in doing the creation as simple as possible, i would like at least to know, bevore i register anything, who i am going to pay and what i pay for. Maby i just overlook it..
I like this idea a lot.<p>I am a private person, but I made sure to get the .coms of my name, my wife's name, and the names of our 2 (the second one born a month ago) children. I think if this sort of thing appeals even to a misanthrope like me, it should have a huge market.
I like the simplicity. I think the challenge is how to get it in front of your target market at the right time. Could you partner with GoDaddy (etc) to catch people right after they buy a domain?
That's neat. But does anybody have personal web sites any more?<p>There was at one time a proposed TLD, ".nom", for personal web sites. But social went to Myspace, Facebook, etc.
For those who are a bit more technically inclined, it's pretty easy to set up Github pages with your domain.<p><a href="https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-with-github-pages/" rel="nofollow">https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-...</a><p>Feedback for dylanbfox: $7/mo seems a bit steep. This is probably shared hosting and a full blown VPS starts at $5/mo on Digital Ocean.