NameCheap is More Popular Than GoDaddy Among HackerNews Users

One of the best decisions I made while developing Lean Domain Search was to ask visitors which registrar they use after their third search. By asking you which registrar you use, I can customize the interface to make registering domain names through that registrar easier for you which in turn leads to higher affiliate revenue […]

Orlando Has More Domain Names Per Capita Than Any Other Major US City

It might come as a surprise to you to learn that Orlando has more registered domain names per person than any other major US city. With 243,195 people and 21,877 .COM domain names that begin with “Orlando”, it has more domain names per thousand people (90) than any other major US city. Miami comes close […]

Using Domain Name Registrations To Determine What Businesses a City Needs

captioned. http://leandomainsearch.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/simcity.png | A screenshot from SimCity 2013. Here’s an interesting thought experiment: if you were put in charge of planning a city from scratch, what businesses would you need to include? To answer this question you might start by thinking about what businesses you interact with on a weekly basis and what dependencies they […]

One in Seven Registered .NET Domain Names Have an Unregistered .COM

It probably won’t come as a surprise to you when I tell you that there are more registered domain names that end with .COM than with .NET. After all, the .COM Top Level Domain (TLD) is still what most non-technical people associate with websites so if you’re planning on starting a new website then you […]

Lean Domain Search Partners with Sedo to Help You Find the Perfect Domain Name

I’m thrilled to announce that Lean Domain Search has teamed up with Sedo to make it even easier for you to find a great domain name for your next website. In the past when you performed a search on Lean Domain Search it paired your term with 5,000 other keywords commonly found in domain names […]

Available “Black Friday” Domain Names

There was a really interesting post published over at SEOMoz this week title How I Made $13,490.50 With Adsense Last November where the author, Scott Offord, explains how he crafted a site, ThanksgivingBlackFridayAds.com, to bring in thousands of dollars in AdSense and affiliate revenue each holiday season. Scott explains: Recognizing a profitable opportunity, I created […]

New Registrar: NameTerrific

A few days ago the founder of a new domain name registrar called NameTerrific emailed me to inquire about adding it to Lean Domain Search’s supported affiliates list. I checked it out and was immediately impressed. It’s tag line is “Domain names for geeks” and it was built from the ground up with an emphasis […]

Lean Domain Search Upgrade Price Reduced to $24

I’m happy to announce that it now only costs $24 to upgrade to a premium Lean Domain Search account so that you can view the full set of available search results. Previously there were two plans: $79 once and $199 per year. A number of people contacted me and said “Hey, I’d love to sign […]

Improving the Search Result Formatting

A small but kind of cool update today: In the past when you performed a search Lean Domain Search would convert your search term to lowercase before combining it with the prefix or suffixes so that the results looked something like this: With today’s update, all of the results retain the proper casing: This not […]

Pricing Updates

Last Monday I released Lean Domain Search’s new business name generator, a tool aimed at helping prospective business owners come up with a professional name for their business. Just about everyone who tried it agreed that it came up with fantastic results; Domain Name Wire even wrote an excellent post titled Lean Domain Search adds […]