Finding Available Domain Names and Checking Domain Name Availability

Finding available domain names from the billions already registered can be as easy or as hard as you wish it to be, in this day and age when a decade and more has passed since the dot com bubble people are well aware of the potential money locked in domains, and more and more are realising that potential than with other types of property.

A domain can be registered for as little as a dollar, and if you can find the right buyer or develop it in the right way it could set you up easily for life.

The hardest thing about this is checking available domain names and then registering the names, with many millions already unavailable in every niche you are going to find it hard stumbling upon what people actually are searching for, but no more.

The idea of this system is to take readily available free tools on the internet and use them to your advantage and with this you will easily bring down a list of a possible 1000 domains that could take a week to brainstorm to about 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

First of all you should pick a niche, for the purposes of this demonstration it hardly matters, it could be cars, weightloss, diets, health, make money online, flights, car hire, llamas playing banjos and so on and so forth...the important thing is not to get too hung up on a particular niche as that will only limit your options. The top 3 evergreen niches of making money, health and weightloss have been picked clean over the last 10-15 years so chances of getting a great name from those is slim, but there are millions of other niches available.

What you must do is go to Googles keyword tool as this tells you what people are actually searching for and how, forget the board search method as that is too broad, it takes into account that the words may be there in the search but not the context of it. Exact searches are far better as that shows us what people really want to find, all we are doing is giving it to them.

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal?forceLegacy=true

Now we have to pick a search, this could be anything but I tend to look through the junk on my desk such as an old remote control, webcam leads, old receipts from games bought, beer bottles simply because it is close to hand, you could search for yachts and interstellar starships if you so wished.

Now that we have done our initial search we are going to have a list of between 50-200 results that people actually look for using Google, this may be enough or it may not, you can easily retype something else related and get more but make sure you add all of those to the selected keywords list after you have swapped it back to broad search so that when it saves you will not get brackets, that will only make our next step harder. You could do this to get thousands of possible related keywords but I find around 500 is best, especially for the searching available domains in the next step.

Go to the bottom of that list you have created and select "save as text", this will save it on your desktop which you then open, select the whole lot and copy to clipboard and go on to the next step.

This step requires you to go to a domain register, it could probably be any if you wished but I prefer GoDaddy for this step or Namecheap, they allow bulk checking on domains to find out which are already taken and which are available in seconds which is crucial, there is little point in spending hours of research when it will not aid you one bit. Go to Godaddy then, select Domains > Bulk domain name registration; do not worry, we are not going to register the whole lot, you can do that if you wish to though...this step is simply free and it will remove all those that are taken leaving us the wheat from the chaff as it were.

Once you have your domains in the box provided then select which extension you want, GoDaddy does not provide Uk domains for bulk registration so for that you will have to go to NameCheap or another alternative. Once you click search it will remove all those that are not going to be available and leave us with maybe 10-20 domains, about 10% usually though if the niche is more obscure we will find that many more are able to be registered.

Just as an example now type "find available domains" into Googles Search tool, and you will come up with a list such as this:

find available domains

find available domain names

check available domains

available domain names

domains

domains names

register domains

And so on, saving that to a text file will give us a list of 200 searches that people do looking like:

123 domain name

available domain name

available domain names

best domain name

best domain registration

bulk domain name registration

bulk domain registration

bulk domains

Placing these into GoDaddy Bulk Registration Tool will give us a list looking like this, though you must be aware that others may have picked this list clean and taken what they want, this is what people actually want infomation on, if you have the exact domain name then you will likely get a boost in SEO

CheckAvailableDomain / com 

CheckAvailableDomains / com  

DomainsTel / com 

MeUkDomainNames / com 

MeUkDomains / com

MobiDomainNameRegister / com 

MobiDomainRegister / com  

RegisterOrgDomainName / com 

RegistrarDomainName / com 

RegsiterDomain / com 

TelDomainRegistration / com 

The method above does not remove trademarks, it does not fix typographic mistakes or give you any indication of their value, you will have to pick out any gems from the list you get, but that should be easier now. As all you need to do is take that list back into Google, remove the extension and replace the spaces to where they logically go and search again in exact, giving you a list you can glance at in seconds.

Alternatively you could go to Estibot and type those domains into their boxes and it shows you how many searches have been made, how many pages in Google have that exact search string, how many adverts are associated and so on though you will need to take the appraisal values with a block of salt, all I use that for is directing my focus on what may be interesting and warrant further investigation.