| The site was purchased by iNET Interactive company that was planning to further monetize it. At that time the site had simple search functionality that allowed visitors to search for deleted or placed on hold domains. The site was very popular but generated little to no revenue. All information on deleted domains was stored in files instead of the database to minimize server load and search time but that put some restrictions on further clusterization and use of different data sorting. At that time there were around 4 million domains in the system. Our task was to make this site database driven, port all information from files to the database and add new functionality without impacting search performance. |
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Most of the original Perl scripts were replaced by PHP scripts. The site now uses MySQL that was optimized to handle large number of data and sustain an increase in the number of domains. A lot of tests were performed to tune up queries and database structure for fast performance. |
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The site started to generate revenue within days of the new version launch. Now it has information on more than 44 million deleted, placed on hold and pending deletion domains, gives users more search options and flexibility. New types of searches and combinations of searches were added, email alerts and membership subscriptions were introduced as well. |
