I pulled the latest .com zone snapshot (updated Feb 22, 2026) and analyzed 160M active domains across 2,895 registrars, focusing on creation/expiration/update dates plus nameserver infrastructure. The report includes year-by-year growth, name-length saturation, registrar concentration, and NS-based classification, plus “new” cuts like an 18-month expiration forecast, DNS update recency, registrar portfolio vintage, and day-of-week registration patterns.
It's on closed testing, not live for public yet. Could you please drop your email on the Request Early Access form which is above the footer of the landing page? I'd be happy to send you access details.
Thanks! Frontend is Nextjs. Flask, Postgres and Redis in the backend. Hosted on a cheap VPS.
I spent way too much time trying to automate moderation (grouping related submissions, judging similarity, removing offensive submissions) using sentence-transformers and w2v. Finally gave up and settled on using deepseek to moderate for 0.002€ a day.
One thing I'm currently working on is improving the exploration vs exploitation balance in matchmaking (selecting the fakes to present to a player). I want sessions to contain good fakes, but every fake must be played a few times to judge its quality. As a first step, I'm replacing the ELO system for definitions with one that accounts for uncertainty (like Trueskill)
Oops, sorry if that wasn't clear, we're not building a search engine index (yet). We'll definitely do it if we get enough people interested in paying for such a product, though. Right now we're using APIs for other search indexes, like Mojeek and Marginalia, then sprinkling some basic local algorithms to tweak the results and apply the preferences to boost/downrank/exclude domains and TLDs (which is everyone's favorite "feature").
Stack-wise, it's very "boring" (as in, it generates and serves the HTML + bits of JS to enhance settings and such), using Deno in the backend and PostgreSQL for the DB.
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