I’m Back! And I Have A Couple Great New Tools

September 23, 2008 · by Scott

I have electricity once again after Ike took it from us for 11 days.  The site was also down today.  Apparently the Google positioner plugin I use stopped working and made the entire site go poof.  It’s gone and the site is back.

I’m a bit out of touch at the moment; haven’t been able to keep up on news and trends very easily.  What I do have, however, are a couple great tools recently released by Name.com.

To start, they now have Domain Suggestions, Expiring Names and a Recently Deleted section.

Name.com

The Domain Suggestion feature isn’t terribly special; it seems like any other suggestion engine.  Though, I was able to find a couple decent names using it.

The Expiring section lets you buy names for $19.99 before they get deleted.  Again, not terribly special but I did find a decent name or two.

Now the Recently Deleted section is a different story.  I was able to find plenty of decent names here for the bargain price of reg fee.  Eliminating hyphens, numbers, .nets and dropping the length below 20 yields some nice domain names for the keywords you enter.  I love how you can search back X amount of days as well, but beware: the searches can take a long time (and I hate the location of the checkout button; my mousehand loves to click on it).

Let’s take some recent trends reported here on TrendDomaining.com and search the Recently Deleted feature on Name.com

  • BambooTips.com
  • TattooFinder.com
  • RobotMachinery.com
  • KyotoCarbonCredit.com
  • CheckCarbon.com
  • CarbonNeutralising.com (Yes, I know this is British)
  • CarbonActivist.com
  • ReduceOurFootprint.com (Call-to-action is the in-thing)
  • CharlotteDayTrips.com
  • SolarHerald.com (what a great name for a solar news site)
  • OntarioSolarPower.com
  • HomeEnergySolutions.com

Enter broken record: Yes, these aren’t CarbonCredit.com, SolarPower.com and Robotics.com, but these are worth reg fee and would do an end user well.

There is one last tool Name.com has given us: e-mail alerts for deleted names that contain your hand picked keywords.  You can reach there through a not so subtle link on the Recently Deleted section called Get email notification of newly deleted names.

You can enter as many keywords as you like, such as Houston, Chicago, NewYork, Bamboo, etc. Then choose a max length, hyphens, numbers and e-mail frequency and Name.com will send you a notice as soon as the domain gets deleted.

Like Google Alerts though, this thing can spam ya.  Do not leave the max length at 63 unless you really are interested in xomphoenixnightlifewhiteoutparty.com.  Yes, I did receive an e-mail alert for that.

I really like how it will bundle your alerts into one e-mail instead of one for each name or even each keyword.  Excellent idea.

These are a couple nice tools to add to your ever-growing arsenal. They need some polishing, but it’s a good start for Name.com in bringing in new features.

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Comments

6 Responses to “I’m Back! And I Have A Couple Great New Tools”

  1. Patricia Kaehler (DomainBELL) on September 24th, 2008 12:56 am

    Glad to see yo are back up…

    I had power go down as well — on the 14th…
    there were 190,000 homes here without power…
    some are still out - 9 days later…
    it was an experience - that’s for sure…

    new Trend…

    BUY a GENERATOR for next power outage…

    :)

    ~DomainBELL (Patricia)

    ***EDIT***

    Thanks! My goodness the deman for power generators was amazing. People were selling them at gouging prices on the roadside and people were still buying them! I’m sure we’d be hard pressed finding a power generator affiliate… it’s not exactly something that ships easily… hehe

    -Scott

  2. Marcus on September 24th, 2008 10:30 am

    Hey it’s good to see you back, Scott. Very useful tools, looking forward to getting stuck in.

    Marcus

    ***EDIT***

    Thanks Marcus. I’m starting to tweak my settings as I’m getting spammed with domains. Though… I hate to miss out on a good one if I choose not to receive every 15 minutes…

    -Scott

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  4. Steve (Web Dropoff - RCD) on September 30th, 2008 8:17 am

    Thank you for the tips. I never used Name.com but will have to start trying the interface. Glad to hear you are back up and running.

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