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https://domdb.com - aftermarket domain name aggregator and search engine.

It has integrated BIN inventories from Afternic, Sedo, Namecheap, Porkbun, and Gname.

Currently working on custom price alerts and an API.


I'm honestly ignorant - what political statement is it making?

It seems that liberals dislike Teslas because they dislike Elon Musk.

And conservatives dislike Teslas because they dislike new and different things.


Source?


A solution I've used is to limit the number of table rows displayed to fit vertically within the browser viewport. This way the horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the table is always visible without having to scroll vertically.

This does require:

0. Pagination.

1. Each table row must have the same height.

2. Use of javascript to calculate the max number of rows that will fit vertically in the viewport (and don't forget to include the height of the table header and pagination buttons in the calculation).

3. Send ajax request with row limit to server to retrieve and render the data.

You can see an example here: https://wee.domains


The catch is that you must use Cloudflare's nameservers [0]:

  6.1 Nameservers. Registrant agrees to use Cloudflare’s nameservers. REGISTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT MAY NOT CHANGE THE NAMESERVERS ON THE REGISTRAR SERVICES, AND THAT IT MUST TRANSFER TO A THIRD PARTY REGISTRAR IF IT WISHES TO CHANGE NAMESERVERS.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/


That's extremely weird. Is there a publicly stated reason for it?


This usually isn't a problem, you can point the DNS to any hosting service you want. Its a pain to setup every single record of-course.


People generally use 3rd party Nameservers when their Registrar is unreliable or "old school".

Most dot-com era web companies used Network Solutions back in the day - and many still use them. However, DNS updates sometimes take hours, their interface is cumbersome, etc.

It's become quite common to use someone like Cloudflare for Nameserver/DNS duties (among other things) and keep your registrar where you like.


I was able to solve DNS issues with my domains at Porkbun by:

  1. Log in to Porkbun account, go to "Domain Management".
  2. Click "DNS" link under affected domain.
  3. Click the "Yes, please update my domain" button in the red box at the top, screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/Yfjlqit.png


Just a heads up - I tried this random query:

  select * from trips where pickup_latitude < -74 order by pickup_longitude desc limit 10;
Didn't get a result set. The little box in the upper right hand corner stated "Maximum number of pages (16) breached in MemoryPages"


Ordering would be memory intensive. There are configurable artificial limits in place on this demo instance. This is just because database takes internet traffic directly. In any other settings these limits can be relaxed, which is default behaviour anyway.


You might take a look at wee.domains [0] - it's a big table of short available domains from the most popular TLDs. It has pricing from a variety of registrars too.

[0] https://wee.domains

Disclaimer: i made it.


I cannot tell you how much I love tld-list and now wee. As a recovering domain addict, I've spent an unreasonable amount of time on your sites. :)

For domain hunting, tld-list is a godsend. Thank you so much for this!


Cheers!


This seems pretty useful, but I’m having trouble with the filters- how can I find “one word domains”?


That filter hasn't been implemented yet, it's on the TODO list [0].

The best I can currently offer is the "Label is Word" column that identifies in which languages the label is considered a word or letter.

[0] https://github.com/timbowhite/wee.domains-tracker/issues/21


this is cool, more filtering would be useful (on tld length, whether it's a word). Interesting that ca.rs is still available and pretty cheap. Funnily, sa.rs is also available. pe.pe too, and oh.ms.


I deliberately opted out of snippets for TLD List [0], a price comparison site I made for domain names.

I don't know if it's made any difference. Organic search traffic from them has slowly but steadily increased over the years.

Google now sometimes displays a snippet from my competitor's website for searches like "cheapest .io domain" [1]. The snippet seems pretty useless as it doesn't include any registrars' names/links (and my competitor's price info is quite outdated).

In these cases, since the snippet is the 1st thing users see in SERP, and doesn't provide enough info to fully answer the question, I'd wager that my competitor is ultimately receiving the majority of clicks from these snippets.

[0] https://tld-list.com

[1] https://i.imgur.com/aFoZbFw.png


>I deliberately opted out of snippets

Appreciate your datapoint. Also btw, when I "view source" the HTML of tld-list.com, I notice it has "nosnippet" inside a comment:

    <!--
    <meta name="googlebot" content="nosnippet">
    -->
Does google crawler parse and obey "nosnippet" embedded in HTML comments?


No I don't think so. Thanks for pointing that out.

IIRC, I eventually removed nosnippet because it caused google to not display microdata in SERP (see the "$25.99 to $99.80" in the above screenshot) that were desirable for my traffic. I instead replaced nosnippet with:

``` <meta name="robots" content="noarchive"> ```

And this seemed to have the same effect as nosnippet, but with the added benefit of my microdata still being displayed in SERP.


Nice, looks polished. I remember it from 2017.

I still want to drop Disqus. But I'd need to get all of my exported comments from Disqus into Commento. Is this possible?


Yep. So you'll need to start an export of your comments on Disqus. They'll send you a link to an archive. Paste that link in the dashboard and all comments will be downloaded and imported (preserving formatting, reply structure, etc.). More info in the dashboard.


From this page, it looks like importing comments from Disqus is supported: https://commento.io/pricing


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