Down for maintenance

The site is currently down for maintenance for about 20 minutes. Sorry for that.

-EDIT: Site is back up. I finally nailed down an annoying bug that happened only once every few days. Sorry for the downtime (approx. 20 minutes)

New features available

Many people have requested that the "favorites" and "preferred extensions" get saved across sessions. Well, here it is! You won't lose this information anymore when you leave and come back to the site. Enjoy!

!@#$% Internet Explorer! Please help!

I'm still fighting with IE and I need a little help from you guys! Ajaxwhois takes forever to load in IE (6 or 7), but not in every other browser I tested it with. I have no idea what it can be due to. I am offering a reward of $40 to the first person who comes up with a solution.

Here's the question on Guruza, along with the reward: http://guruza.com/question/431/reward-40.00.

Your help is very appreciated! Thanks!

Domain hacks are back!

By popular demand, I added domain hacks back to AjaxWhois. I thought nobody used this in version 1.0, so I didn't bother implementing them in version 2.0. However, people have proved me wrong, so there back!

Basically, when a domain has possible hacks, they are shown on the right-hand side. It's up to you to click those that might be of interest. 'domainaero.com' is a good domain to try out if you want to test this feature.

Another little change I made is that domain lookups don't launch as quickly as before when no extension is typed in. This should help improve the responsiveness of the site for slower typers.

These new features and changes are all based on users feedback. If you have comments or suggestions, please send me an e-mail... I do read them and care!

PS: Still can't figure out why IE is taking so long to load the page. If anyone has an idea, that would really help.

A few glitches, but overall, things are great! (but IE is not so great!)

The server had a few memory and performance issues this morning, which were fixed a little later on.

I'm still having a major issue with the site and Internet Explorer. For whatever reason, it takes forever to load the site in IE although it loads very quickly in every other browser/platform I tested. The XHTML and CSS validate, and Apache doesn't seem to be the issue. If anyone knows what might be wrong and why IE behaves like that, please let me know.

Thanks!

Ajaxwhois 2.0 is out!

Straight from Denny's, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Ajaxwhois 2.0. The site has been completely redesigned and should now be easier (and funnier!) to use. It also features improved performance and searching for domains without entering an extension. As always, Ajaxwhois continues its supports for every existing domain name extension.

Ajaxwhois 2.0 is still in development. If you find bugs, have comments or suggestions, please forward them to me.

I hope you enjoy. Thank you!

Carl