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Ask HN: Review my webapp for expiring domains

7 points by mikerhoads ↗ HN
http://www.scoratic.com

It's a semi-curated list of domains that expire every day. I'd like other people's opinions on how useful is it compared to other similar services. Does the curation make things easier?

A brief explanation of the pretty basic rating system: It likes words, near words and wordlike words. It also prefers short over long, .com over everything else and it hates hyphens and numbers.

I have used it to snag a handful of dictionary names with it.

8 comments

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Loginid
I think that the curation is definitely helping - you can really see the decline in quality of the results as you page through.
jay888
A search feature for expired domains would be useful.
proexploit
I think it's a lot better than many expiring domains services I've seen and I've bookmarked it because of this. I agree with jay that search would be a useful feature. I think most people who are looking for a domain have some idea of what they want. I think the affiliate links to registrars is completely fair but I'd still do something about the affiliate.godaddy and essociate URLs (maybe scoratic.com/godaddy/123456 & scoratic.com/snapnames/123456 with redirects?).
iworkforthem
I did love it if I can filter by .com/.net/.org domains, also a search feature would be nice.. There's a lot of domains to go through, especially if done daily.
pokoleo
The only complaints that I have about it are that it's missing "next/previous" buttons, and that it needs a redesign.
ctb9
Great job. I found it immediately useful.

May I ask which api you are using? Your site has piqued my interest in domains.