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Python script: http://pastebin.com/7Jv891zg

Clickable link: http://boardlite.com/

I like the look, it is clean and simple.

One small glitch: it seems that on the page http://boardlite.com/category/computers/list/ some vertical gray border is missing on the left side of "1 post" and "16 views", where the light blue headline becomes narrower and says "Tracking ID: 400000001" etc. Same problem on the FAQ page at http://boardlite.com/faq/ ...

Page load speed: instead of http://boardlite.com/media/js/lib/jquery/jquery-1.3.2.min.js you could use http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min..., see http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/ for details.

Thanks. Can you tell me which browser are you using. I am so upset that I couldn't see it before the launch.

oh yes. Now I know what you are referring to. I guess the problem is on all browsers. I'll do the needful soon.

Point taken. I have now integrated the display of taken (and parked and error) top level domains again, trying to make it useful but not too distracting.

Clickable link: http://www.nxdom.com/

Writing may help you more than reading, especially if you can find somebody to give feedback. Maybe start a blog or contribute to a magazine?

I'm not a native English speaker, but here's some feedback for you: I would say "advice" (always singular) rather than "advices".

I call myself "Founder" in the context of my current solo project, even if that project is not really a "startup" or "company".

As the legal term I use "Sole Proprietor": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sole_proprietorship

My interactive search engine for short available domains: http://www.nxdom.com/

I'm working to bring the advanced weighted sort order back, but optional so that new users can play with the simple sort order until they understand what it does. Work in progress is here, and full source code: http://master.latest.scoretool.appspot.com/ http://github.com/jcrocholl/nxdom

My 2-year-old son doesn't want to go to sleep yet, so he's climbing around on me while I write this.

FWIW, On Ubuntu/Chrome, the 'find available domains, starts with and ends with' lines are all on top of each other.

Thank you, I see what you mean. The headline wraps because the font is too wide on Ubuntu (in Firefox too), hope to fix it soon.

Very, very cool app. Nice job.

nxdom - awesome!

Good question, so I wrote a blog post: http://nxdom.posterous.com/why-is-nxdom-open-source

Thanks for the answer, I agree with all your points. I'm just saying that still, there is a small technical difference from open source desktop software: technically, in this case, I can not verify that the source code you release is exactly the code that you are running on the server, just that the code reproduces all the "visible" functionality of the site. I wonder if there exists such a place for hosting trusted web-apps, where one could publish source code and they would certify that the actual code running on the server is the same.

Again, I'm not saying you should do anything differently, I'm just trying to understand if open source makes sense for pure web apps.

Yes, that was the previous version that I announced here on January 1st. I figured that usability is more important than fine-grained control over the score weights, because the sort order is not terribly critical. Basically, the user should be able to adjust the trade-off between short and popular names. But it's a brainstorming tool, we're not trying to get one particular name to the very top of the list.

Because it's a search engine for short names, using a large database of unused and expired domain names. Try searching for "hack" + "ne", or "hack" + "e" for even more results.