Comments on: Finding Domain Names – Bust a Name

By: Urban

Urban — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:07:29 +0000

Way to cool! Exactly what I needed.

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:46:25 +0000

Great tool. Thanks for sharing!

By: Jennie Rosenbaum

Jennie Rosenbaum — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:10:25 +0000

OMG I should have heeded the warning! I found URLs I thought would be long gone. the trick was to only buy 4… and I may be getting a new ISP now too grrr..

in an earlier comment Hamlet said
“The problem with these types of tools is that they are limited to using only the keywords that are typed in, therefore, all you get are generic domain names. I believe that brandable names are more memorable, so they usually make better domain names. i.e. “Perrier.com” vs. “BottledWater.com”

you can type in a name or a brand as a keyword, and even pluralize it. I have jenniesnudes.com and jenniesart.com for example. but for SEO if you can get your favorite keywords or tagline as well then that’s gold. contemporaryfigurative.com was not taken… is now!

By: David Peyton

David Peyton — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:31:03 +0000

Thanks for the link, Brennan. Lowell, also take a look at http://www.afternic.com/ for domain names for sale.

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:14:16 +0000

Where you you buy your domain names? Can you tell me any good site for German costumers?

By: Lowell

Lowell — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:10:18 +0000

Thanks Darren -

Nice new tool. Don’t forget dotcenter.com for finding expired domains.

Lowell

By: Summer

Summer — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:50:08 +0000

I should not have seen them as I ended up buying a couple. LOL The only thing I didn;t like was the list of places to buy from didn’t list Namecheap.com, which is where I register with. Not a big deal really. Then I figured out that Namecheap doesn’t list their marketplace anywhere but with themselves. So there are some awesome names for sale with them that were listed as taken at Bustaname.

By: Brennan Ryan

Brennan Ryan — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:48:07 +0000

David: I use Cheapdomains.com.au – found them to be very good value and service

Darren: Curse you! Yes a fantastic tool and yes i wasted a half hour on it and yes i bought 6 more names :-)

By: David Peyton

David Peyton — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:14:09 +0000

Just a quick note regarding my previous question… Wikipedia has a helpful list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_ranking_domain_registrars … which feeds from here: http://www.registrarstats.com/

By: AskaX

AskaX — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:10:45 +0000

cool site I love it….

I buy 1 though.. :p

I’ll play more and buy more.. hehehe…

By: David Peyton

David Peyton — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:01:26 +0000

Darren,

What service would you recommend we buy a domain through? I see they list a few.

Perhaps you may be willing to let us know who you buy through?

Thanks!
David

By: Davor Molnar

Davor Molnar — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:05:07 +0000

Wow really nice tool ;) Few days ago i found another domain tool but it was geared towards WEB2 hype and it was creating funny web2 domain names. i really liked it

By: CatherineL

CatherineL — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:08:58 +0000

Thanks Darren – I already had way too many domains and this tool has made my addiction worse. Any more posts like this and I will no longer blog about you being the boring blogger – you”ll join the John Chow evil blogger category.

By: Gopinath M

Gopinath M — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:57:11 +0000

Domain Bot is very cool in the list of sites. Here is another post which gives more information Cool Sites to check availability of domain names

By: Razvan

Razvan — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:02:59 +0000

Thanks for the tool. There’s also Name Spinner from domaintools.com but I like this one better..

By: Crystal

Crystal — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:56:35 +0000

I was just thinking about this today. The links definitely helped, thanks

By: Maureen Green

Maureen Green — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:37:08 +0000

Thats a pretty rocking tool! I just used it to buy a few of the domains I had on my mind. I couldn’t get the godaddy registration to work within the site interface, so I used Godaddy code ZINE3 for $2 off each domain I bought. (Same as the $6.95 deal on bustanam) Another cool thing about the tool is it’s pretty SEO savvy about related keywords. Something to think about for all you serp-hounds out there!

By: Ramkarthik

Ramkarthik — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:29:01 +0000

Darren, Great tool. It is very interesting. I played with it for 15 minutes. When I get my domain, I should use this tool. Very good Indeed.

By: Kirrily

Kirrily — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:39:29 +0000

Thanks, Darren! Very timely.

By: Nathania - Guest-Blogger.com

Nathania - Guest-Blogger.com — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:59:58 +0000

Thanks for introducing me to my new guilty pleasure.

Even my kids got into it.