Comments on: Search Available Domains Faster Using Domize

By: Jolin

Jolin — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:38:33 +0000

Well, thanks for the tips here.
Would you like to exchange link with me?

By: AgentOrange

AgentOrange — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:43:15 +0000

Vaibhave: Thanks for the security information.

Fordy: Thanks for the tip, I bookmarked DomainNameSoup for future reference.

Marie: Don’t mention it.

By: Marie

Marie — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:04:22 +0000

Thanks for the tips Louie, I’ll certainly keep domain tasting in mind

By: fordy

fordy — Sun, 11 May 2008 08:08:36 +0000

You could also try DomainNameSoup.com for available domain names.

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Sun, 11 May 2008 06:11:54 +0000

Dominize works on HTTPS, if that is an indicator of security.

I read about a few more of these services including Dominize here: http://www.onlineobservations.net/do-you-like-to-collect-domains/

I started searching on these services and landed on this blog…

By: AgentOrange

AgentOrange — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:01:32 +0000

You have every right to be cautious Marie, I have read several complaints about different domain search services being not entirely secure. One in particular involves his Gmail account. He found a domain and emailed it to himself in his Gmail account to register it after work. When he got home, the domain was already taken. He didn’t say if his Gmail got hacked or the security in who.is is flawed.

I would suggest that even if you are not too serious about buying the domain, you can register it and delete at no cost it if you decide not to buy it. This is called domain tasting. It is a way of testing the marketability of a domain within a 5 day grace period. There are quite a number of people monetizing on domain tasting by placing Adsense on them and deleting them before the grace period is over. That was before Google decided to stop monetizing all domains if they are less then five days old.

By: Marie

Marie — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:24:42 +0000

This sounds like a good tool to have. I wonder if the site ensures that searches get deleted when a user clicks on the ‘clear’ button, so that the potential domain names you have searched on do that get sold out to some company who will then park on it.
I am very cautious, as it has happened to me in the past where I searched on a domain name I wanted to register (as it was available) but waited a few days before I acted on it – and someone else registered it in the mean time. I was suspicious because the domain name I came up with was composed of several long words put together and very unique.