Hey everyone!

Years ago, one of my favorite domain search tools, Lean Domain Search [1], was acquired by Automattic. Unfortunately, that's when the "enshitification" began, particularly when they started forcing the `.blog` TLD in search results.

After discovering the simplicity of RDAP lookups, which can be done by fetching a JSON response directly from the client (e.g., `https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/ycombinator.com`), I decided it was finally time to build my own solution.

Here's how it works:

The first tab appends prefixes and suffixes to your chosen word and queries the Verisign API directly from your browser. No data is sent to my server.

The AI tab attempts more intelligent prefixing with the optional context.

The "Quirky" tab generates variations of the affix search through trivial merging (for instance, for the word "brain," "brain" + "node" becomes "brainode," and "hub" + "brain" becomes "hubrain").

The "Portmanteau" tab was inspired by this HN submission [2] and my personal desire [3] to see it function as a domain name generator. I'm using AI, though, as it was easier and faster to implement and get this up and running ASAP.

I'm all ears for suggestions and feedback!

[1]: https://leandomainsearch.com/ [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19241236 [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19245396

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