Show HN: Keyword Tool to Find Available Domain Names

I wrote this keyword tool to help find a domain for a new project I am working on.<p>I thought it turned out decent enough, so I'm releasing it, hoping others will find it useful.<p>There are tons of these domain keyword tools around, here's why I built this one:<p>- Wanted to check the best keywords first, then fallback to less popular keywords<p>- Handle plural/singular keywords gracefully (like greatguitar.com, guitargreat.com, greatguitars.com, but not guitarsgreat.com)<p>- Use WHOIS rather than DNS to determine availability (more accurate, but slower)<p>- Simple to use<p>- Fast<p>There's still a lot to do, but in the spirit of release early and often, I'd love some feedback on this.<p>Do you find this useful?

I find <a href="http://impossibility.org" rel="nofollow">http://impossibility.org</a> to be a fair bit faster and with a bit more control over options. Suggestion: it'd be nice if one could toggle between what registrar they wish to use and have the URLs automatically updated.

This is great--I've already bought 2 good domains for a project that I've been trying to rename for months. Thanks!

Hmm, tldrpower.com is available.<p>How are you checking for name availability? Every option I've looked at either wants to charge me money, or has a TOS that's hostile to scripting.

Big fan-- already gave us some new domain ideas to discuss for our next project. Thanks!

it works. To make this even faster., Try to memcatch frequently searched domain names and flush it for every 24 hours(Incase someone registered one).<p>Good luck.

When I scroll down a little and try to highlight a domain name, as soon as I click on the white-space, it scrolls to the top. All I am trying to do is highlight: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBDPYnNryJE&#38;hd=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBDPYnNryJE&#38;hd=1</a><p>Great tool. I like its results more than impossibilit...

throwing errors:<p>TemplateSyntaxError at /keyword_tool/<p>Caught OperationalError while rendering: (2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)")<p>Request Method: GET Request URL: <a href="http://domaingroovy.com/keyword_tool/" rel="nofollow">http://domaingroovy.com/keyword_tool/</a> Django Version: 1.3 rc 1 Exception Type: TemplateSyntaxError Exception Value:<p>Caught OperationalError while rendering: (2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)")<p>Exception Location: /home/domain/domaingroovy/env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py in __init__, line 187 Python Executable: /home/domain/domaingroovy/env/bin/python Python Version: 2.6.5

This is actually quite useful. Speed would improve the overall user experience. Also, I'm not too sure what the links are at the bottom of the page?<p>All in all, great first start. It'll be powerful once you start including other domains (.me, .us etc)

Additional value would be to check associated Twitter/Facebook usernames - you're not just searching for a domain name, you're searching for a brand, right?<p>Great service though (impressed by Impossibility! too).

I got a Django exception... maybe this will help you out: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/RiSZU.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/RiSZU.png</a>

Nice work. I still prefer <a href="http://domai.nr/" rel="nofollow">http://domai.nr/</a> for ease of use and those extra techie tlds.

Jasber, thanks for building this. You're really really making it easy for me to find a great name for my projects.

It's groovy! Seriously - that's fantastic.

Thanks, excuse me while I register "poopcrunch.com"