Best Free Online Domain Name Tools

Are Decent Dot Coms Still Available? Most of us would prefer a dot-com domain over another extension. There are exceptions of course such as exotic extensions like .TV and .MOBI but for the most part we prefer a .COM.  As a ‘part two‘ to my post back in October ‘Searching For The Perfect Domain Name‘ I have listed several free online tools you can use to find your perfect domain.

Free Online Domain Name Tools

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Protect Your Find
Protect your brand with DomainTools’ Domain Typo Generator. I used it to find that ExtremEzine.com/ (missing an ‘e’) and ExtremeEzines.com (plural) are already registered by other people – bummer. ):

HURRY - Grab these up: Feel free to register these if you like. While playing around, I mean researching ;) I found that FreeBloggerTools.com and TopBlogTools.com were available at the time of this post. Please leave a comment below if you take one or both so I can cross them out.

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Brian on December 13, 2008 | Filed Under Free, Site Building

23 Comments

Dennis Edell  on December 15th, 2008

Whenever I go to register at godaddy, if the name is taken they also provide good “suggestion lists” right there. :)

Dennis Edell  on December 15th, 2008

OK am I nuts, or did you have commentluv before?

Brian  on December 15th, 2008

You’re right Dennis, I don’t know what happened to my commentluv plugin. I just checked and it’s still activated. I upgraded to WordPress 2.7 this weekend, I hope that didn’t mess it up. If I can’t figure it out I try their website for help.

Dennis Edell  on December 16th, 2008

Some have deleted and reinstalled ok, but yea just contact Andy…he’ll be all over it. ;)

Dennis Edell  on December 16th, 2008

Since it isn’t working, I hope you don’t mind the following…

http://www.directsaleswebmarketing.com/100-first-prize-best-blog-review-contest/

That’s $100 first prize – gonna shoot for the gold? :)

Brian  on December 16th, 2008

No problem Dennis. In fact, I’ll be writing a post on contests I’m helping to sponsor shorty.

Bash Bosh  on January 2nd, 2009

Very nice list!
I see that above sites are not included:

http://www.whois.sc
http://www.psychicwhois.com

Brian  on January 2nd, 2009

Thanks Bash Bosh, Psychic Whois is pretty cool.

Bash Bosh  on January 3rd, 2009

Yup, I like it too :)

Kevin Phoenix  on February 17th, 2009

In the terms of using syndication with social bookmarks, do you still feel that .com domain names are so relevant?

Brian  on February 17th, 2009

I do Kevin. I feel, in most cases, if you can get a .com you should. Social bookmarks are great for new traffic but what about Joe going to work and telling his friend he found a great site to checkout. He thinks it’s ‘francofiles.com’?

I know those cases are getting fewer and fewer because he’s more likely to email his friend a link. It’s getting even better with mobile technology.

In a perfect world we would own both/all extensions but that’s not always possible.

I will say this though. If you already have an established site it would be crazy to change the URL just for a .com domain. I’m just referring to new sites in the works.

Paul  on February 20th, 2009

Just tried out domainnamesoup from your suggestion tool list, and it works well. Except all the good short domains are already gone…

Pauls last blog post..Kent coast

Brian  on February 21st, 2009

Hi Paul, Domain Name Soup is pretty cool. Most short domains are taken but there are some pretty good ones to be found. I’ve found it almost addicting to search for cool domain names. Did you see my post 100 Dollar Domains – Special Offer?

Here are too other posts you might find interesting:

Searching For The Perfect Domain Name

Domain Name Tips From Experience

domain  on February 21st, 2009

Hi Brain, i have a bit of an issue here. Which is it that you keep deleting all my posts? I have done more than 3 contributions to your blog and none published.

Brian  on February 21st, 2009

@domains: I assure you it wasn’t intentional. I can guess why your comments didn’t get through. I don’t want to lecture but I think this will help you (and others) with other blogs too. It has to do with the name you are using, ‘domains’.

At the time of this reply we only have 879 approved comments yet Akismet has filtered 5,032 spam comments. That’s a lot of checking before the comments are deleted. When you put something like ‘domain’ as your name it’s a lot more likely to be filtered as spam by Akismet. I recently updated our Comment Policy to allow key words but I do ask that an actual name be used. Even something like ‘First Name – Cheap Domain Names’ would be fine. We feel like you are a person and you get even better key word benefit. Win-Win :)

I do apologize that your contributions were deleted and I hope you will try again. I’ll look for your comments and be sure to approve them.

Kenny - Cheap domain names  on February 22nd, 2009

Thanks Brain, for taking time to explain all these to me. The points you raised are taken onboard – thanks!

Brian  on February 22nd, 2009

Glad to help Kenny, thanks for coming back.

herry  on February 24th, 2009

yup this is a good information… i will do get free domain :D hehehe thx man

herrys last blog post..Sudah Saatnya "Mobile Marketing"

herry  on February 26th, 2009

hey bro… can get your latest post about free online domain tools…

herrys last blog post..Sudah Saatnya "Mobile Marketing"

Webmaster Uk  on February 28th, 2009

This post is really a must bookmarked for me! Thank you so much. :D

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Brian D. Hawkins  on August 16th, 2009

I just found another cool domain tool so I’ll add it here:

DomainsBot

Ben  on November 10th, 2009

Best suggestions are a name that works with your niche, perhaps suggests the topic, and is easy to type/hype.

Brian D. Hawkins Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 7:52 am

Well said Ben.