DownCheck.com

[Deadmau5]

Non profit? I don't see any advertisements on it.

[Ally Mac]

Not really easy to remember, isup.me is a lot shorter.

~A

[Omniscient]

I'll put ads on the redesign.

And isup.me has this weird sexual undertone.

But anyways..I'm going to offer better service than that site.

[Fragma]

Looks like it has a lot of potential. I'm really liking the domain as well.

Off-topic,

How do you come across domains like this? Do you search for them and just get lucky? Or buy them off people for more than the average price?

[Death Trap™]

For some reason when I read the domain name I think of someone checking or going down on me. I wonder if its just me...

Great domain.

[Omniscient]

I honestly think of the best keywords I can then see if it's registered. If it is then I often send inquiries to purchase it. In this case the owner was a domainer I know. I've had deals with him in the past too. So we made a reasonable deal. It's amazing how many times I whois and it's someone I know. It helps to be in the right circles. I've gotten some good deals.

[Swift Swim]

Seen the design, possibly make the 'check' input bar more centralized (vertically not horizontally)

[Ally Mac]

I'll put ads on the redesign.

And isup.me has this weird sexual undertone.

But anyways..I'm going to offer better service than that site.

Porn being the biggest, or second biggest thing on the internet. I doubt that is a bad thing.

But, I wish you luck with your site.

~A

[Peter L]

Actually that's not my ref link. I bought this site with the script and I'm totally redoing it. I'll be adding a very cool Advanced Check which will grab more data to display like DNS and IPs. I may do a redesign with a dark background just to contrast DC from other similar sites. But the goal will be a clean layout.

I like little projects like this. I can work on them a couple days then let them out into the wild to grow. I have a number of site that make good yearly income and require no maintenance. I expect that from this site too.

And with places to advertise it immediately like SF, HF, MyBB, and Central. It will surely do well.

See..that's key. I use tools already at my disposal to grow new projects. I'm more likely to buy a site with built-in traffic than buy advertising. There are lots of smaller sites you can get for a couple hundred that for it's lifetime will be a traffic source. HF would be nowhere if it wasn't for a $40 site I bought. That's the truth.

Oh well, that could always be a good idea with the ref link to a domain registrar.

And that's really good insight...buying out smaller sites to being traffic. Omni, thanks for that. I remember looking at the waybook machine and HF had people posting from the start. What was the website you bought?

EDIT:
Do you buy out forums or something related to what you're starting? And do you have any method to find them?
EDIT2:
And you could buy out
www.isup.me
www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com
www.isthatsitedown.com
www.host-tracker.com
www.downornot.com
or
www.checksite.us

[Project-]

Nice job, i like the idea