[kmfrk]

You should register wordlensapp.com or something of the like. I'm not sure hosting nothing but the app promotion on a site with a completely different URL is beneficial.

With such a product, you should perhaps brand yourself more on your product than your company name. :)

Just throwing it out there.

[staunch]

For future reference: never mention registering a domain in a public forum. Some douchebag will always register it and try to sell it to you.

In this case someone has already registered wordlensapp.com. We can only hope it's the Quest Visual people.

[kmfrk]

I thought better of HN. Shame.

There are many trends for using domains similar to what you would desire: get<product> being the best, and <product>app being one of the other choices.

I have very bad experiences with finding an app's site, if it models <product>app. Maybe it's just bad SEO on their part, but I imagine that it'd be an awful hassle for any normal user who don't know the conventions.

Then it struck me that <use>product would be a very interesting domain that makes much more sense than <product>app. It also mirrors the imperative <get>, although it may not be as popular and known to users - yet.

I think it's a shame they didn't secure a regular <product>.com domain for such a great product - but, on the other hand, I'm sure all the press will forgive them (hell, they're trending on Twitter, and 80% of my social media digest today was about the bloody thing).

I've registered usewordlens.com, usewordlens.net, and usewordlens.org and will be happy to hand it over or point it to a domain of their choice (if someone tells me how the hell to do it using name.com, because I'm a complete idiot in that regard. I guess I have to mess with some DNS).

[elliottcarlson]

Doesn't look like it...

Different registrar, different DNS and the obvious spam landing page. sigh

[pchristensen]

Since you mentioned this, I registered wordlens.co and set it to redirect to their website. I emailed the info and asked them if they want it. That's how awesome I think this app is - I'd rather spend my own money to make sure they get a good domain.

otaviogood or johndeweese, if you're reading this, my email is in my profile.

[blhack]

This is why we can have nice things, HN. Good on ya.