http://www.anysim.net/

http://www.bmw-eba.de.tl

This is a pretty cool little application but it’s definitely overpriced for the number of features it provides. It really needs to have more statistics available; even just adding some simple things, like more Whois info would help.

It would really start to be a killer application, and worth some money, if it plugged into Google Analytics, HaveAMint, Google Adwords, Feedburner and other statistics sources.

The biggest thing this app needs is a price drop; just dropping it to $20.00 would really crank up its salability, I think; either that or leave the price and add features that make it worthwhile. I know that’s never something a developer wants to hear, but it’s something to consider.

Mostly integration. Integration with Google Analytics and Feedburner for stats, Google Adsense for monetization, Google Adwords to track campaigns, SEDO for parked domains and their performance and domain recommendation services to help me get the best domains. I know I’ve just picked the most popular services there, but you get the gist.

I also think it would be cool if you could use it to track development. Maybe integration with something like iGTD (through tags I guess?) and the ability to store more info against each domain, or associate it with a development environment and other relevant documentation.

I think a big win would be if the developers could negotiate discounted domain purchases through one of the major registrars if you go through the software. Then you could tie them together so it becomes a one-stop-shop for finding, purchasing and running domains.

So, basically, I want the world, and I want it for half price

I’ve had domains for many years, but it wasn’t until recently that I cared to start looking at where traffic was coming from, etc. Much of this stuff is new to me. I still have no idea what Alexa does and how you are rated, etc.

It would be nice to build-in some sort of “help” system that explains all these services, and offers tips and hints on how to improve your rankings, etc. Maybe building it in as an RSS feed type of thing so that new tips could easily be added all the time.

I also agree that $40 is kind of a heavy price tag. $30 would be a little easier to swallow.

1) I’d like to see an integrating of siteadvisor.com or some similar service that scans your website for potential viruses. I once had a Russian spammer guess my FTP password and secretly add spyware popups to my site. Yet since I used popup blockers, I had no idea for a good two weeks or so until people started complaining about it.

B) It’d be interesting to see if you could pull more Whois data. I own God knows how many websites and some I keep under different alias because I don’t actually run them but instead let my siblings us them. So I have to make sure I keep private whois on those, public whois on others, etc. It gets to be a pain in the ass trying to manage which whois says what versus what they should say.

Tres) Add more stats on how people view your sites and how they get there! RSS feed count, browser share, top Google search keywords, etc. All of this stuff is available on the free stat counters out there, so it’d be nice if a $40 program included them as well.

Two things that immediately struck me,

1. No ALT tag tooltips as you mouse over buttons, elements etc.. This is my primary way of exploring software and is an instant turnoff. Don’t make me open a manual to explore.

2. Animation effects that go too slowly that that achieve nothing other than simply slowing down my user experience. They’re like traffic lights to me. Great if done swiftly – very slick, also with an option to turn on and off, otherwise very annoying.

Also… the ability to use Domainer to submit/manage bids in domain auctions, etc. for expired domains.

Of course, integration with one/more registrars to enable complete domain ownership management from within the tool would be awesome.

Would be nice if it integrated with site statistic programs like webalizer, google anylitics, and stat counter.

It would also be nice if you could see query times from MySQL/Postgrey/Access/SQLServer DBs associated with the site.

so to be specific: i’m inside domainer and click a lookup button – i can either use an existing domain and it will search for available variations or i can look up new stuff and save those of interest in a little group inside domainer (like ‘future ideas for domains’) perhaps through simple lookups on bustaname or something…

Thanks for the great feedback.

Dan Booring – You can do all this with the current version. Domainer even syncs with your Keychain to store your FTP passwords securely.

Rob – If you could send your domain and some system details to us form http://www.ragesw.com/support/ we can take a look at hopefully get this fixed ASAP.

Again, thanks for the all great feedback,

Integrate with google analytics. I hate having to pop over to google, log in, switch domains, switch domains, switch domains. It’d be fantastic to have overviews available right there on my desktop (dashalytics doesn’t cut it, or even work for me.)

We can collect all sorts of information in one place already. Provide some shortcuts to thinks like “open in ftp (of your choice)”, “connect via ssh,” etc.

I’d also like it if Domainer could be like Pingdom and be check domain uptime.

Maybe even have Domainer check it’s Technorati/Digg/Social Site ratings.