Not much time to write; been diligently working on new features, which I hope to roll out on President’s Day.

Why is 168 important? It’s the number of hours in a week.

And its not enough :)

I don’t know what this says…

Domain Pigeon – gdy brak pomysłu na domenę

Domain Pigeon jest pomocny dla osób, które nie mają czasu bądź brak im pomysłu na nazwę dla swojej strony internetowej. Serwis pokazuje wolne domeny oraz umożliwia ich zakup.

Autor: Tomasz Ogrodowicz

Baza domen oprócz wyrażeń tworzących logiczną całość skupia się na nazwach, które kojarzą się z przypadkowym wstukiwaniem liter na klawiaturze, ale jednocześnie idealnych do nazwy nowej aplikacji czy dowolnego serwisu. Zawiera domeny typu: ainlo, ibasilisks, eenpl czy ghtmo. Przykładów takich nazw może istnieć nieskończenie wiele.

Serwis informuje ponadto ile osób zainteresowanych jest kupnem wybranej nazwy oraz umożliwia filtrowanie wg popularności, kolejności alfabetycznej oraz ilości liter. Osobną kategorię ze względu na swoją popularność mają domeny 5 literowe.

Baza opiera się na 14580 domenach dla użytkowników zarejestrowanych oraz 3731 dla gości serwisu. Rolą Domain Pigeon jest tylko wystawianie domen, jeśli któraś z nazw przypadnie nam do gustu i wyrazimy chęć jej zakupu, serwis odeśle nas do sprzedawców.

www.domainpigeon.com

But I like it…

And for the non-geeks out there, this is a screenshot from Google Analytics, which is a small piece of code that I add to the pages on Domain Pigeon that tracks visitors to the site. It let’s me do some pretty advanced analysis, including narrowing down Domain Pigeon’s traffic to a specific state, or in this case, a country.

I hovered over Katowice only because that’s where my father is from, and hey, that’s kind of cool. Right now I’m wishing he had taught me Polish though…

They deftly maneuver and muscle for rank

-Cake, Going the Distance

I stayed up till the early hours of the morning crunching Domain Pigeon’s performance numbers.

The results were not what I expected.

The Domain Pigeon you see in a week will be much much different than the Domain Pigeon you see today.

Last week was amazing.

The post-launch press from CNet and ReadWriteWeb was both unexpected and exhilarating.  Prior to launch there was a big question mark hovering over the project: Would people like it? Would people pay for it? Would it be secure? I’m happy to say that the answers seem to be yes, yes, and yes.

I’m cautiously optimistic looking forward.  Its a great start, no doubt, but its just that: a start. It’s no time to be complacent; the site needs a lot of work in order to prosper in the coming weeks and months. I’ve got no shortage of ideas to make that happen, only a shortage of time to implement them.

Before I start adding more features I’m going to add credit card processing to the site. The percentage of people that follow through to Paypal to complete their registration is abysmal. That might be because its not clear that it costs money–though I think it is–or it could be because people don’t like using Paypal for whatever reason. I need to give people the option to do it on Domain Pigeon or I’m going to constantly wonder just how much of an impact its having on the revenue.

Adding credit card processing is tedious and I honestly can’t wait till its implemented so I can get back to adding features. When I program, I tend just to hack away and then fix things as they break. Unfortunately, I don’t have that luxury while handling credit card information. I won’t be comfortable with it unless its meticulously planned and tested prior to deployment. And that, I’m sorry to say, is going to keep me busy for the next few nights.