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At the risk of seeming spammy, please check out my service Lean Domain Search [1] before buying a premium domain name. It pairs your search term with more than 2,000 other keywords and instantly shows you which are available, making it really, really easy to find great available domain names.

Guys like this depend on scarcity to drive up the cost of domains. One of my goals with Lean Domain Search is to show people that there actually are lots of great available domain names left for whatever you're working on. The problem until now has been that there haven't been any tools that make it easy to find them. Over time, if enough people gravitate away from domain squatters, the value of their portfolios will fall, they'll stop renewing their holdings, and it can change the face of the domain name industry.

[1] http://www.leandomainsearch.com




Where did you get the current list of registered domains? I wrote a script to ping domains then perform a whois if ping returned nothing, but it was really slow.


Not spammy. I want more tools like this. I use domaintumbler all the time. I do wish the tools would support different languages and more extensions. I live in Europe.


I used Lean Domain Search after getting stuck coming up with a domain name. It revealed created 4-5 options that I would be happy with.

Thanks for creating the service!




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