Nuggets:

• Learn why now is a great time to find a great domain for a new project.
• Find out how to start from a very simple mockup, validate an idea and grow it through iteration.

Action Steps:

1. Do some market research on power users for domain names, i.e. people who spend a lot of time searching for and creating them. Can you attract enough that would pay a decent amount for a service like this? Find out if you can sustain a business based on power users paying for this.
2. Research business models to find out what would work best. For example, affiliate programs, advertising or charging users at different tiers.
3. Research registrars that you might connect with through an API to validate availability. Find out which registar(s) could be the right one(s) to connect your users to register with.
4. Research the technical challenges of matching against all existing registered domains and storing and accessing the data on which domain name inquiries would be based.
5. Keep in mind there may be "non-technical" ways to get this started. Don't assume you need to have advanced computer science skills.
6. Validate with a landing page builder. But include a really rough version of it that people can play with. For example, generate four input boxes that accept nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. Spins them all together and gives users a huge list that gives them an idea of what could inspire them.
7. Use this foundation, plus take advantage of tremendous capacity for constant evolution based on user suggestions and your observations to slowly iterate and improve. 

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