Show HN: Aha Domain Search (ahadomainsearch.com)

Love it--feel like it helps builders fight back against domain squatters.

I have 1 suggestion, as domain order is not important, can you move available domains to the top as soon as you found them available.

thanks

ai tab Generate button is disabled for me, regardless of input

This is useful especially with the weird .blog insertion on LeanDomainSearch. But I've always wondered how LeanDomainSearch gets results so quickly? The results are almost instant for thousands of domains.

Great idea overall. The results in the AI tab are not very creative though, just variations of the same creative idea.

I didn't know RDAP lookups was a thing, but now i've learned something by looking at your source. Thanks OP

https://www.verisign.com/en_US/domain-names/registration-dat...

I found a bug: if you include a . in the domain your looking for (ie a.b), all domains will show as available, even though they aren't.

Small suggestion, in the simple tab you could put the <term>.com of the term searched as the first result. Cool project.

Love this, thanks for building it, way faster way to explore options than what I'm used to!

Could be worth adding some kind of 'only show available domains' option

(edit: realizing this may require a rework of how the underlying availability checking process works, but could be worthwhile)

I’ve tried creating similar solutions and feel LLMs still lack accurate control over (or understanding of) length, stress / accents, and phonetics for consistent name generation. For usernames for example I’ve yet to create a generator that uses LLMs that beats simple Markov chains. Maybe because results are subjective it makes rating / training a lot harder? I like the site and your approach though and great job on lookup speed! If anyone has any tricks or suggestions I'd love to hear them.

Loved it, thanks for sharing it!

Some feedback:

Very cool! I will use this.

But your suggestions are not good. It's just "stick words on the front or end.

The simplest thing you can improve is include variants of the word. If I say "kayak", then kayaks and kayaking are closer to my intent than "wikikayak". Getting this right would be your secret sauce.

Obviously, non .com domains would make this much more valuable.

add a filter of "only show available domains" would be very helpful.

maybe have the option to do prefix and suffix? Probably only useful with AI or some algorithm that makes them related. MyKayakHome isn't bad.

On the quirky tab, you don't display the domain names, you show "sug+". I assume this is supposed to be added to the stem, but it's not consistent. "a+" guard gives "aguard", but "sug+" guard gives "suguard", where is the extra G?

Either way, please just show the domain name.

If I select the text for the name of a domain, you should not pop up the domain info box.

One the ai tab, I got "An error occurred in the Server Components render. The specific message is omitted in production builds to avoid leaking sensitive details. A digest property is included on this error instance which may provide additional details about the nature of the error."

On the main page, the search button is always disabled, but hitting enter works (firefox/mac). hmm not reproducible after reload.

Just gave it a spin — the direct RDAP lookup from the browser is such a nice touch. I’ve always found domain search tools frustrating when they filter or push certain TLDs, so the “no server” part is refreshing.

The “Quirky” tab is surprisingly fun — got a few name ideas I wasn’t expecting. One small suggestion: maybe add a bulk check option for multiple keywords at once? Would make brainstorming sessions even faster.