Attempting to register a domain name for a new website is a painful process these days. Most of the straightforward names are taken by either
1. legitimate businesses
2. or by novices that registered them to use on personal projects that they will get around to "someday” (and hey it costs less than a coke a MONTH to keep the registration current)
3. or kited by dodgy businesses that abuse the 5 day grace period while ICANN looks the other way.
1. legitimate businesses
2. or by novices that registered them to use on personal projects that they will get around to "someday” (and hey it costs less than a coke a MONTH to keep the registration current)
3. or kited by dodgy businesses that abuse the 5 day grace period while ICANN looks the other way.
So if you are attempting to set up a mainstream business using a catchy name, chances are that you might need to search for multiple permutations of your desired business before you find a domain name that fits your need. Unfortunately the search facility provided by all of the major domain registrars still harks back to the Web 1.0 era where you type in values into fields on a form, submit the form, wait, wait, and Oops sorry usefulwidgets.com is taken would you like to try widgetusers.tv? Needless to say this can be a painful process especially when you have to do it over and over again in a short span of time.
However, I recently found this site called InstantDomainSearch that actually searches in the background as you type so that by the time you have finished typing you already know whether the domain name is available and provides links to various domain registrars where you can register the domain name. If the domain name is NOT available it shows links to
1. suggestions for other domain names
2. WhoIs search
3. a domain brokerage service where you can opt to negotiate to acquire the domain
4. A domain name hack search utility
5. and last but certainly not the least a link to Alexa where you can see the traffic analysis to this website which indicates how active the site is.
The speed of the search actually invites experimentation – ok, so usefulwidgets.com is not available how about I try this? – and delivers a much more positive search experience than that I have had at any of the domain registrars.
Check it out here and let me know what you think...
3 comments:
I think cheap domain is much better than instant domains.
I assume you meant www.livedomainsearch.com. I tried it and I must say I respectfully disagree.. I found instantdomainsearch to be more responsive (LDS has a second or so waiting time after you stop typing) and it's design is alos much better.
YMMV.
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