Concrete Future Plans:
I’m working on some upgrades behind the scenes to make DSH even more useful and insightful for domainers, investors, and researchers alike. After a bit of thought and planning, upcoming features consist of:
- Currency Conversion
- Public API
- UI Query Builder
- Data Visualisations
- Alerts / Dashboards
- Paid Subscriptions
- Valuation Engine
Currency Conversion
After the recent launch of Inflation Adjustments, the obvious next feature will be
currency conversion. This means non-GBP sales like USD and EUR will be automatically normalised using historic exchange rates, then inflation-adjusted where relevant, allowing better comparisons across time, region, and currency.
Public API
The next logical implementation will be a
gated API. While technically public, it will be used for internal purposes only to start with, eventually becoming invite only during a testing phase, then becoming a tiered premium offering. This will give vetted users structured access to DSH data, perfect for integrations, research, or tooling, while letting me track and control usage. I don't want to be making competition for myself, after all!
UI Query Builder
Once I have the API built a new
UI-based query builder will be launched. This will let users create much more advanced and granular queries, providing a sneak preview of what’s possible through the API itself.
Data Visualisations
This will display charts for most of the filterable fields, allowing you to spot trends over time.
The data visualised will be filterable, and potentially exportable in some form.
Custom Alerts and Dashboards
I’ll be adding
alerts and dashboards. You’ll be able to follow keywords, TLDs, or price tiers, and get notified of relevant new sales. Dashboards will provide personal insights, track trends, and offer a clearer view of what’s moving the UK domain market, kind of like building your own purpose built Recent Sales Reports (that could possibly be exportable).
Paid Subscriptions
To support some of this and help sustain future development, I’m preparing
paid subscriptions. Free users will still get access to a rich but time limited dataset, where as subscribers will get access to features such as:
- Extended history
- Saved searches
- Custom Alerts and Dashboards
- Gain access to the UI Query Builder
- CSV exports
- Tiered API access (time and feature based)
Domain Valuation Engine
Lastly, that leads neatly into the
valuation engine. A tool that will use historical comparables and inference models to estimate the potential value of any UK domain. It won’t spit out inflated nonsense; it’ll give context-driven, data-backed estimates that evolve as the dataset grows.
Whilst I know this last feature might be scorned upon, as we all know how accurate domain valuations aren't. But this is about valuations based on real-life sales data over a period of 20+ years, currency converted and inflation adjusted.
I would love to hear you're thoughts on the above - even if you're feeling mean.
Supporting my efforts
If you'd like to
financially support me on my upcoming efforts, not only will it be highly appreciated, it will be both remembered and rewarded.
Over the years there have been some incredibly supportive folk of the DSH project, and behind the scenes they have actually already been recognised & marked as 'supporters', and have been for some time.
This
will mean something when the new features are launched, as you are my early evangelists, and without you, we probably wouldn't have come this far together.
Depending on the level of support provided over the years, this will likely mean something along the lines of:
- Early beta access to the new features listed above
- Voting power (help guide what features ship next)
- Lifetime discounted/free subscription (depending on level of support)
