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Domain Research Tools I Really Like

Doug Williams @ 4:37 am

This blog entry was posted on January 21, 2008.

Locating the right domain name is very important for the branding of a business and the business website. These are my favorite sites for researching and finding domain name. This is the process that I will go through in selecting a domain name for a business website.

Keywords
My first step is to identify keyword phrases that are getting good traffic. There are a number of good research tools that are free.

  1. Google Adwords Free tool based on PPC data
  2. WordTracker Free tool based on search data

Locate Domain Names
I have two research tools that I will use to search using the keywords I want.

  1. DomainsBot: Reasearch based on keyword phrases. Advanced features let you select based on many parameters including maximum number of characters.
  2. NameBoy: Generates possible names based on Keywords and displays results in an easy to scan table showing results for all possible TLD’s (COM, NET, ORG, etc.)

Other Domain Research Tools

  1. Buy and Sell Domains: Sedo is the leading marketplace for buying and selling used domain names
  2. Expiring Domains: DropScout shows domains expiring (Pending Delete) in the next 6 days. Search by age, PR or number of characters.
  3. Whois Search: Very complete set of whois info as well as screenshot, history and SEO information
  4. Free Domain Appraisal: This is a free service and the results are always on the high side. This is still a good quick estimate.
  5. Internet Archive: What websites have been on a domain name in the past.

When it comes to buying the domain, I recommend that you come you come to one of my websites DougWilliams.com or Dwassoc.com

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2 Comments

  1. You refered to using Estibot for your free domain appraisals….FYI I buy, develope and then sell 5-6 websites per year. Generally I get a domain name appraisal to see where I should price it. The various ‘free’ and ‘robot’ appraisals like Estibot can vary by thousands of dollars. My last 3 sites I have been using WeValuer.com as my main domain valuer and they have been within about 15% of the actual selling price on Sedo. Though I could pass this on.

    Comment by Jen — August 13, 2008 @ 8:23 pm

  2. Nice post I just get this domain name (http://citypges.com/) with page rank 5, check this site after one month and you will see what pr it’s gonna be.

    Comment by free352 — October 25, 2009 @ 9:59 am

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