Review My Startup: Coffee & Domains - Simple Domain Registration

My first impression:

If you're trying to distinguish yourself by being simpler, clearer, and less aggressive than the competition, then I'd say you can stand to take it a bit further with the design of your site.

Go full-on minimalist with your homepage, sort of like the Google homepage.

I'm thinking the only things that need to be on the page are:

* A small logo identifying the site

* $10

* .com, .net, .org

* an input field for the desired domain name

My initial reaction, "trust is going to be an issue."

Besides that, my first search attempt "www.domainsdoneright.com" brought up as unavailable for the TLDs com net and org. However using "domainsdoneright" brought up com as unavailable, net and org as available. I didn't check for accuracy using whois. Regardless, these results on your app should be consistent. You're going to need to filter for these alternate inputs.

Unfortunately I don't have anything particularly constructive to add, just that I hope this does take off - it's definitely needed and I would be a customer.

The reason I'm not a customer yet (and there is a domain or two I'm toying with picking up) is that I don't know that you are going to be around next year, and I've no idea what happens to my domain in that situation. As much as I hate GoDaddy, I don't see them disappearing any time soon so unfortunately that's where most of my domains currently are. Can you do anything to reassure me on either of those points? Do you know how much you need to make to stay in business and make it worth your while, and how likely are you to meet that?

Best of luck!

The site looks great! The favicon should be a one-off of the donut instead of a scaled down version w/ those colors. It appears a muddied.

Your fat footer could host more content, also. The bottom-right logo could stand to be larger.

Spend some time on the business model. How many domains are you going to need to sell to cover the costs of your accreditation? Hire another programmer? Turn a profit? Domains is a tough business, be smart about it.

Your "$10 to buy .com!" buttons don't have padding. Despite giving us nice big Call to Action buttons to click... we still have to precisely target the message text itself rather than the button image.

I don't really have anything constructive to say. I just wanted to say that I think your UI is refreshingly pleasant to use for a domain registration site.

Clickable link: https://www.coffeeanddomains.com

No nonsense registration + dns zone management is something I've been looking for. Add dns management!

Just out of curiosity, whose services are you reselling?

We wrote about you here: http://unitedtechguys.com/2011/07/11/coffee-domains-domain-r...