What’s New In One Word Domains 2.0
Our Progress So Far
After a successful Product Hunt launch and a feature on the front page of Hacker News, One Word Domains has had over 25K visitors from 158 countries, sold 136 domains, and amassed 414 newsletter subscribers — all within the span of a month!
During this time, I’ve received countless feature requests, bug reports, and TLD requests, which prompted me to dig deep and figure out ways to improve the site. After 2 weeks of hacking, I’m proud to finally release v2.0 of One Word Domains.
What’s New In One Word Domains 2.0
1. Featured Listings ✨
With our new “Featured Listings” section, you can now list your domains at a $0.10 cost-per-click (CPC) rate — even lower if you list multiple domains. For those of you who have a killer one-word domain that you’d like to sell, check out this page for more details or reply to this email if you’d prefer a personalized quote.
2. “More Like This” Button 💡
For each domain you find on One Word Domains, you can now click on the “More Like This” button to get a list of its synonyms that are available under the same TLD. You can also get a list of the unregistered TLDs for that domain word — a metric commonly used amongst domain investors to determine the value of a particular domain.
3. “Premium” Tags 🏷
When I spoke to Andrew on the Domain Name Wire podcast, he suggested me to add a “Premium” tag feature — where all the premium domains on the site will be labeled with a bright purple “Premium” tag — to give users a heads-up that the particular domain might have a rather hefty price tag. That feature is now live on the site.
4. Two-word .com Domains 🌐
This is a suggestion by Ron over at DNJournal — finding and adding a list of marketable two-word .com domain name combinations. Creating the word combinations with Python wasn’t that hard, but scrolling through tens of thousands of them to find the best 150 took hours — check them out here.
5. Speed optimization ⚡️
If there’s one lesson that I learned from building One Word Domains, it’s that mixing a large number of available domains and an inefficient code structure is a recipe for disastrous load times. Thankfully, after a full day’s work, I was able to change the code structure and reduce the load times of the .ai and .app pages by over 90% — it now loads in a split second instead of a whopping 20 seconds.
What’s Next for One Word Domains
Optimize, optimize, optimize — both for load times and for SEO. Oh, also — curating more domains by finding new word lists to play with — if any of you have any suggestions, feel free to let me know!
One last thing — I am also planning to launch One Word Domains 2.0 on Hacker News sometime this weekend — so for all you Hacker News users, keep an eye out for the post if you’d like to give me your feedback then.
Otherwise, I’m always open to feedback — feel free to hit me up on Twitter to request your favorite TLD, or to point out a god-awful, super-obvious bug that I should’ve fixed a long time ago.
