[KennyBlanken]

How is this different from literally dozens of other sites that do exactly the same thing?

Do a whois search, maybe cache the results a bit. Have affiliate agreements with some vendors. And scrape domain squatter prices.

Even a lot of registrars do this.

TLD-list (among others) does everything you do, better.

[beau]

None of those sites existed when I first built this 17 years ago. WHOIS, even behind a cache, would not support our query volume. We focus on being really fast. Any specific features you'd like to see?

[indigodaddy]

I’m on mobile. Any way to return only “available” results? Eg only results where you can click buy and pay a normal registration price? (And not like $100 to $1M)

[beau]

Filters are on the TODO, thanks!

[Fnoord]

Honestly, you don't want to query a third party database. If you have a really good idea for a domain name, its already taken. OK, I'll retry: if you have a really good idea for a domain name, you don't want to share it with a third party. You only want to query the database(s) directly, and even then you want to select which ones. Why? Discretion. Say you want to start a new company. You look if the name you came up with is available. You verify it isn't, and hey presto a few days later it got domain squatted.

[bener]

Why don't you just buy it straight away? Problem solved!

[Fnoord]

(Nobody ever thought of that!)

Because 1) you don't expect this to happen (confidentiality) 2) you're still setting up your company/idea which requires other administrative tasks which require time.

They want you to impulsively buy a domain out of fear of it getting hijacked.

[bener]

I still don't see why not, it takes a few clicks and costs a few dollars. It seems that if you are a person that expects this to happen then it's a good strategy.

Otherwise you just decide which domain search you trust and hope your domain remains available.