Finding an available domain name is getting harder and harder everyday, not only because of Domain Name Kiting, but also the huge business of domain name speculation.
Thankfully, when it comes time to register a new domain name for your business or venture, you’re not on your own. Here are three (free!) tools that will help sort through millions of available domain names and help you find the perfect one.
The most powerful domain name search tool available.
Enter a couple of keywords, use the included thesaurus by clicking on the blue arrrow in box #2, and watch the software combine the words into dozens or even hundreds of possible variations. You choose how many words to combine, what domain name extension you want, as well as prefixes and suffixes to add to your list of keywords. You can even plurize your nouns (pant -> pants), and drop vowels (flicker -> flickr).
Best of all, once a list is generated, you can sort it by readability, length or the number of syllables.
Simply enter a primary keyword, a second keyword (optional) and specify whether you’re willing to accept domain names with a hyphen and off you go! NameBoy works on a cached database of domain names so it’s fast, but it also means once in a while a domain name you like will already be registered, so act quick!
3. 123Finder
Enter keywords to find available domain names, or browse a lengthy list of available domain names by their length. Looking 4-letter domain name? There’s 4 .com’s available, and 4383 .net’s. You can narrow down the list by only showing domain names containing or related to certain keywords, as well as whether or not they have numbers or hyphens.
Even cooler, you can find available domain names by searching against more than a dozen different dictionaries., including Italian, US Place Names,and Male/Female name dictionaries.
Still stuck? Get someone else to do it for you. Picky Domains charges $50 for a domain name search. Best of all, if you’re unhappy with what they come up with, you’ll get a full refund.
August 31st, 2007 at 7:08 am
Thank you. I am looking for a new domain name and these sites will definitely help.
August 31st, 2007 at 9:37 am
I like DomainsBot. It’s pretty easy to use.
August 31st, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Yeah domainsbot is good, i’ll second that!
August 31st, 2007 at 11:16 pm
I just stumbled across MakeWords and it seems to be quite useful as well.
September 9th, 2007 at 11:06 am
thanks this is really a very nice resource.
September 10th, 2007 at 8:27 am
Thanks, really helful.
Try this one also http://www.dotomator.com it makes really cool names with your keywords.
December 5th, 2007 at 3:18 am
Has anyone else looked into this? http://www.adnlist.com
They claim to have tens of thousands of available domain names.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:33 am
Try the URDNG!
The Ultimate Random Domain Name Generator: urdng.com
April 10th, 2008 at 8:16 am
nice resource . Will add them to my favorites.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Here is another nice and simple one
http://domainology.ca
There is a nice little random name generator
One of the options is the porn star name generator (pet name + street name)
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:34 am
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September 20th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Are they log our search result? Just wonder if they register good domain after we generate it. Another generator: http://leftname.com
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
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November 18th, 2008 at 12:52 am
This one is my personal favorite.
http://domaintyper.com
It generates smart domain names, and shows the availability immediately. Very cool design, and easy to use.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:39 am
I’ve used Fresh Bread Creative. They’re a creative group that came up with some brilliant ideas.
http://www.freshbreadcreative.com
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:28 am
I would recommend DomainSuperstar.com and especially the type in traffic tool that uses real time data from Google Adwords to find available keyword domain names.