It said that digit.com and 6af.com were both free (which I obviously jumped on) but turns out they are actually registered and not due to expire for some time.
Edit: Seriously, great work. Have bookmarked and will be back for my next domain search.
One small idea might be to add slider bars to adjust the weights. That way, one can drag these sliders and see the rankings update on the fly. Maybe these bars (vertical?) can be displayed next to the textbox when user clicks in the textbox. Or maybe you can place the bars (horizontal) in the right column where you currently have feedback.
Additional cool features might be the ability to "watch"/receive notifications for new domain names that satisfy specified weights. Maybe automatically tweet the user or implement it as an RSS feed.
As for feedback, I think having the text boxes at the top for weighting treated graphically might be better. Either some up/down or +/- icons to just tweak those might be cool. (maybe an ajaxy slider that pops up?)
But otherwise dig the concept. +1
* exclude all but .com
* exclude hyphens and numbers
* set char limit to 12
* click "Geo" at the top of the page
1) I wouldn't call the numbers you enter into the boxes "scores." They are really weights - I don't know about others but I got confused by that at first.
2) Is there a way to substring searches? E.g. If I type in "debate" I might want "mydebate" to come up...
1) You're right, but the boxes (and columns of numbers) are probably going to disappear in the next version. Maybe we'll have sliders or radio buttons to adjust between "Important" and "Don't care" for some properties.
2) Real substring searches are not supported because they are expensive. But your example is supported: type "debate" in the second keyword input field for suffix matches.
Overall, very useful for finding short names.
$ dig magic.com SOA
[snip]
magic.com. 21600 IN SOA auth03.ns.uu.net. hostmaster.uu.net. 990605 21600 3600 1728000 21600if it is free, use the black text "free". if it is taken, grey out that cell, with no text.
that will make it much easier to scan with the eye
On that note, who is everyone using for registration these days?
So, yeah, I think your project is great. A couple of things:
* Hire a graphic designer
* Your affiliate hosting company wanted me to enter a US state when paying with my credit card. I entered Armed Forces overseas, it still went through, but it wa annoying