The news of Automattic’s acquisition of Lean Domain Search spread faster and wider than I ever would have imagined. Here are a few of the news outlets that covered it: TechCrunch: Automattic Acqui-Hires Lean Domain Search To Improve Its Domain Registration Service The Next Web: Automattic acquires Lean Domain Search, founder to help WordPress.com users […]
I’m thrilled to announce that Lean Domain Search has been acquired by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com! At Automattic, I’ll be working full time on making it even easier for WordPress.com users to find and register great domain names for their websites and blogs. What does this mean for Lean Domain Search? Not only will […]
I’m happy to announce that Lean Domain Search performed its 500,000th search today. That’s not a huge milestone in the grand scheme of things, but certainly, one that I’m proud of. Thank you all for continuing to use it, share it, and for providing feedback and encouragement along the way. Performance improvements update Over the […]
At the end of March, I launched Lean Domain Search’s new Brandable Domain Names section. Brandable domain names, for those of you not familiar with the term, are domain names that can be used for a wide variety of websites. Think names like Obsera and Innoviza. The names don’t convey the site’s purpose so they […]
DomainNameWire published a really interesting article last week titled The Coming Change in Domain Name Search where Andrew Allemann talks about the impact of gTLDs on domain search: This year will truly be the end of an era. Saying it’s the end of an era because of the elimination of the drop down box, a […]
At the end of November 2012 I partnered with Sedo to include premium domain names in the Lean Domain Search search results. Premium domain names — shown in orange below — have been displayed above the available search results so that you can consider them when making a decision on which domain name to buy […]
Two weeks ago I launched Domain Name Trends, a new tool on Lean Domain Search that lets you visualize how many .com domain names have been registered over time for a given topic. Along with the main search tool I also released hot topics feature which analyzes all of the .com domain name registrations on […]
Earlier this month I wrote a post about which domain registrars HackerNews users prefer. Among that audience, NameCheap came in first (35%), GoDaddy second (27%), and Gandi a distant third (6%). There was a lot of great follow-on discussion in the HackerNews comments about pros and cons of the various registrars that’s worth reading. Several […]
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately trying to improve the quality of Lean Domain Search by decreasing the number of registered domain names that appear in the available search results. After all, there’s nothing more frustrating than getting your hopes up because you found a great name only to find out that it […]
A few years back I came across an almost unbelievable statistic: between 20% and 25% of daily searches on Google have never been searched for before. Google has been around for almost 15 years at this point and gets a few billion searches per day so for more than 1 in 5 queries to be […]
