The International Consortium for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has once again opened up the process for issuing top level domains (TLDs), and a number of suitors have put their proposals in the ring. If approved, the new domains may spark the equivalent of an Internet “land grab” as interested parties rush to secure the premium names at launch. The proposals for new sponsored TLDs come from a variety of sources. Since the fee to apply is a whopping $45,000, the list remains short.

The new proposals include:
.asia – sponsored by Hong Kong’s DotAsia Organisation Limited. Presumably, this TLD would identify those domains representing business or personal interests that originate in Asian countries.

.cat – sponsored by Fundació puntCAT (which would be formed only in case the TLD is delegated). The sponsor’s terse and cryptic Website (www.puntcat.org) gives no clues as to the ultimate purpose for the TLD.

.jobs – sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management in Alexandria, Virginia. The organization’s Website says that, “The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management. Representing more than 175,000 individual members, the Society’s mission is both to serve human resource management professionals and to advance the profession. Founded in 1948, SHRM currently has more than 500 affiliated chapters within the United States and members in more than 100 countries. Visit SHRM Online at www.shrm.org.” Presumably the new TLD would identify employment or human resources areas for businesses.

.mail – sponsored by the Anti-Spam Community Registry in London, England. According to the organization’s Website (www.spamhaus.org) “The Spamhaus Block List (SBL) is a realtime database of IP addresses of spam-sources, including known spammers, spam gangs, spam operations and spam support services.” Clearly the TLD is intended to be used in association with email, possibly in efforts to control rampant spam.

.mobi – sponsored by Mobi JV (working name) of Helsinki, Finland. This group of industry heavy-hitters (including HP, Microsoft, Samsung, Sun, and Nokia) issued the following description of its intended use for the TLD on the organization’s Website (www.mtldinfo.com): “If the application is successful and the Top Level Domain is granted by ICANN, 3, GSM Association, HP, Microsoft Corp., Nokia, Orange, Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd., Sun Microsystems, TIM, T-Mobile International and Vodafone have agreed to form a new joint venture, a Registry Company, to manage the mobile TLD. The companies taking part in this application see the creation of mobile TLD to be a key step in bridging the world of mobility and the Internet to the benefit of customers and the entire mobile industry. A mobile TLD on the Internet creates the opportunity to streamline the deployment of new Internet sites optimized for mobile usage. This initiative is driven with the aim of simplifying the Internet experience for mobile subscribers and increasing the ease-of-use and speed of delivery of mobile services.”

.post – sponsored by Universal Postal Union of Bern, Switzerland. According to the organization’s Website (www.upu.int), “The postal service forms part of the daily life of people all over the world. Even in the digital age, the Post remains, for millions of people, the most accessible means of communication and message delivery available. The postal services of the Universal Postal Union’s 189 member countries form the largest physical distribution network in the world. More than six million postal employees work in over 700 000 postal outlets to ensure that some 430 billion mail items are processed and delivered each year to all corners of the world. Keeping pace with the changing communications market, Posts are increasingly using new communication and information technologies to move beyond what is traditionally regarded as their core postal business They are meeting higher customer expectations with an expanded range of products and value-added services.”

.tel – two competing interests have sponsored the .tel TLD. Pulver.com of Melville, New York and Telname Limited of London, England. According to the Telname Website, “The purpose of .TEL will be to provide individuals and businesses a text-based naming and navigation structure for the Internet-Communications space: any individual or business will be able to initiate communications or access services simply by inputting AdamSmith.Tel or Hertz.Tel on their Internet-enabled communications device.”

.travel – sponsored by The Travel Partnership Corporation of New York, New York. The group was expressly to sponsor the .travel TLD. According to its Website, “Open to all bona fide travel and tourism associations, TTPC is a consortium of travel industry bodies representing a broad cross-section of the industry. The actual size of the industry, from the perspective of directory subscribers and domain name holders, is estimated to be in excess of 1,000,000 travel providers, purveyors, and associated entities—a constituency comprised of travel agents, tour operators, airlines, hotels, car rental companies, cruise lines, bus companies, ferries, rail lines, theme parks, convention bureaus, and national tourism offices.

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Before you begin surveying the market for available domains, you need to identify in your own mind the reason why you’re buying a domain.

There are many legitimate reasons for buying a domain — more than I could list here. Some of the more common reasons are:
- because the name fits the business
- because you know it’s already receiving significant traffic

When you buy a domain because the name fits a business, your goal is usually to establish it as a brand. Traffic domains are self-explanatory for the most part — you want them because you immediately get the boost of attracting relevant traffic to your web site without having done anything other than build the site and buy the domain.

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More people have asked me about domains — or told me that they’ve started their own portfolio of domains in 2007 — than in all the years since I registered my first domain in 2004. I wouldn’t suggest that domaining has gone mainstream yet, but the industry of domaining does seem to have sparked interest in a far wider demographic over the last twelve months than it had previously.

What is Domaining?
The classic definition of domaining is to buy domains for the sake of buying domains. A domainer is someone who purchases domains as an investment without planning to develop them. I know people who register domains, develop them, and end up with a portfolio of sites, but I wouldn’t really consider this to be domaining in the true sense of the word.

There are two primary strategies for domainers:
[1] Buy a domain because you think you can sell it for a higher price than you’ll pay for it.
[2] Buy a domain for the traffic it attracts, which, you hope, will produce a steady stream of revenues.

How to Value a Domain?
As with real estate, there’s often a lot of hype around domain purchases. When you’re planning a purchase, it’s very important to remain calm and rational, and not allow yourself to become too invested in the idea of acquiring a specific name.

Of course, understanding the value in a domain can be a matter of perspective. One person might view recent sales prices of domains and be astonished by the high prices, while another wishes he had more cash on hand to take advantage of the bargain pricing. Other types of domains can be more difficult to value. The best advice is to see if you can categorize the type of domain you’re after and search out comparable sales. You’ll notice, after observing the market for a while, that domains of a given type often sell for similar prices. For example, currently there’s a trend towards four-letter domains.

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Domain names, everybody wants to have one! Do you have a memorable, wacky, or unique name that you want to register to be your own? Try the list of tools below to research the domain name that you want. Just to make sure that it is not taken by another web owner.

The tools below, aside from checking the availability of your domain name, they have different features that will give you more details about your domain. They will inform you the search engine traffic, Pageranks, Alexa rank, whois details, back links and many more. These tools are fast and easy to use.

SnapCheck
On average there are about 20,000 domains becoming available daily. Most of the domains are junk. However, some of them are highly valuable. That is SnapCheck comes in. They filter thru every domain to allow you to make informative decisions. We do not know of another website on this net that compares to this expired domain website.
http://www.snapcheck.com/

Register Compass
It is an advanced domain search service. You can search in expiring, expired & auction domains and be able to filter on your lists on values like Google PageRank, AlexaRank, DMOZ Entry, Indexed Pages, Traffic, and many more.
http://registercompass.com/

Start Name
A great source for link popularity, bulk whois, domain monitoring, registration, expiring domains, drop catchers, domain name forums, buying / selling domain names…
http://www.startname.com/

Domain Research Tool (DRT)
It is trusted and used by the world’s leading domain monetization services, private domain investors and domain and SEO professionals. It provides quality software, frequent updates and excellent customer support.
http://www.domainresearchtool.com/

NamePros
NamePros.com, an active community of domain name owners, investors, buyers, and sellers of all kinds. You can join over 93,000 domain name owners from around the world and discuss anything about domain names and website development! Post your domains for sale or for free appraisals, Private message and conduct business with other domain owners, View members-only forums such as ‘Legal Issues’ and ‘Expired Domains’, and Search and browse our complete database of over 2,700,000 posts!
http://www.namepros.com/

Whois.net
Offers several very useful features, including a search tool with wildcards so that you can step through lists of registered names.
http://www.whois.net/

Domain Inspect
Domain Inspect is feature-rich domain name checker software, enabling you to quickly and conveniently find desired domain names to register.
http://www.antssoft.com/domaininspect/index.htm

DNSstuff.com
Empowers users with tools and expertise to test, resolve and configure their DNS and network.

Netpromoter
Developed a Domain Name Checker program that is convenient. And fast domain checker that finds attractive domain names for your personal or business Web site and manages them .

Domain Tools
Domain Tools has been tracking the whois history of millions of domains.

MakeWords.com
A name generator. It finds unique names and register available domains.

NameBoy.com
It will generate domain names based on the keywords you enter and you and register it immediately.

dyyo.com
It’s a powerful tool to search for four letter domain names. There database is updated daily so that you won’t waste your time searching for a domain.

Domain Hacks Search Utility
This tool finds domains which are the combination of exotic TLDs, directories and subdomains.

StuckDomains
This tool is helpful in finding expired CNO- domains.

Naques’ Word Mixer
The Word Mixer Seed Words tool will mix-and-match words for you to come out brand new and never seen before words. It’s ideal for creative domain names.

RhymeZone
It finds terms similar to English words. Once the domain you’ve chosen is already taken, you can use this tool to generate similar words.

Domains Bot
This is a free tool which will look for similar names. You can also rate other Domain search tools or Web host.

Sedo
BuyDomains
Sedo is the leading marketplace for buying and selling domain names and websites. Sedo is a great web site to research domains.

You can search your Domain name here from over 800,000 of the world’s finest domain names. You can also sell your domain names here or do website building.

DirectNic
A free and easy domain search tool. It quickly indicate a domain name availability and suggest name variations.

Easy Space
This free and simple domain search tool can generate domain names as well as their domain name extensions.

Bust A Name
This is a tool to help find domain names. You can watch the Video tutorial to learn how to use it.

Name Tumbler
It’s a free Domain suggestion tool. You can create huge lists of keyword-rich, generic domain names and check their availability.

DropHunt
This is an expired Domain Search Engine. It’s very useful in searching domain names to be used for your new sites.

Domain Idea Box
Just key in the keywords of the domain name that you want and this tool will check its availability quickly.

URL Trends
If the domain exists, URL trends will show some valuable information such as the Pagerank, Alexa rank, and the number of incoming links recognized by search engines.

Archive.Org Way Back Machine
It can show when the domain was being used. Older domains benefit by having more trust from search engines.

Domain History from Domain Tools
This is a good tool if you want to see if a domain name has any type of history. Enter the domain and you’ll see dates in which the history is recorded.

dnScoop
It has some different features from the other tools here, although it will give you the dame information. When you enter a domain it will tell you the age of the domain, the Pagerank, Alexa rank, and the number of inbound links.

Google banned Checker
This tool will tell you if a domain has any pages indexed by Google, although it will not detect if the domain has been penalized by Google.

Number of Pages Indexed
This tool will generate a report showing how many pages of your website have been indexed by the search engines so far. It supports all major search engines.

DNS Stuff
This tool has hosting tests, Whois, traceroute, ping, and other network.

Reverse IP DNS Domain Check Tool
It finds domains that share server with you, thus such domains have the same IP.

InterNIC
Features information on InterNIC’s directory and database services, tools and resources for the Internet community, Scout report and net-happenings publications, and domain name registration and IP network number assignment services.

Checkdomain.com
Allows users to find out if a domain name is registered or still available.

Uninett
Contains links to domain name registries around the world.

Domain.com
Domain name registration, Web hosting, e-mail services, domain search, and SEO services.

Network Solutions
Home page for Network Solutions, currently acting as the exclusive registrar of Internet domain names within the .com, .net, .edu and .org top-level domains. There are several domain research tools via Network Solutions.

WebLens
WebLens offers easy access to thousands of web design, Internet marketing, and net search tools and resources. Have search engines and invisible web research tools, job finding aids and freelance resources.

GreatDomains
This site provides the marketplace for companies and individuals to buy and sell Domain Names, developed Web sites, and Internet-based businesses under the accepted industry practices that govern business opportunity and trademark sales.

Biotech Domain Generator
A unique domain generation tool specifically designed for professionals and companies operating in areas related to biology, biotechnology, genetics, etc.

DropScout.com
It Provides research and analysis on expired domains. It includes dictionary domains, Pagerank, Alexa, and character length.

DomainSearch.com
It enables you to look up a given domain name across over 50 of the most popular top-level and country-level domains in a single operation.

Better-Whois.com
Since the Whois information lookup process has become so fragmented due to different registrars handling access to their Whois databases in different ways, it was high time for somebody to offer a simple tool that would look up a domain name, no matter where the underlying who is information was kept. The downside is that you’re limited to looking up a single name at a time.

SnapItNow
It helps you to brainstorm and come up with available domain names in your area of interest. By entering keywords, and combining them with various categories, you can automatically generate lists of all the available domain names around your chosen theme.

MarketLeap
This tool allows you to get a quick snapshot of the “link popularity” of up to 4 domain names at a time. It’s handy when you’re researching expiring domain names that used to belong to a site because you get instant feedback on all the major search engines from one screen.

SnapNames Multi-Domain Search
This tool enables you to check the availability of domain names in batches of up to 100 names at a time. It automatically checks each of the .com, .net, and .org extensions if there is none specified. They also have a useful page on the Domain Deletion Cycle.

Register.com
This tool is limited to checking batches of just 30 domain names at a time but it goes beyond the other bulk checking tools on this page by allowing bulk searches on the .biz, .ws and .info extensions as well as the 3 “traditional” top domains.

Estibot
It’s a free domain generator or a keyword research tool. It’s also a domain name appraisal that lets you know how much it’s worth.

Mozzle Domain Name Pro
With Mozzle Domain Name Pro, you can Find high-quality popular domain names, Find good keywords for search engine optimization, and Link popularity check using the integrated Mozzle Link Popularity Checker.

Dot Com Blitz
The Ultimate “Domain Search Software” for finding the domain names you want. Already expired domain names or domains expiring in the future, domain names that are well ranked in search engines, and keyword rich! Search for on-hold, expiring, pending delete, and expired domain names through search engine rankings, expiration dates and Google PR. Immediately backorder or register any domain names that you find. The DotComBLITZ domain software can also find expired domains or soon to expire names by link popularity, yahoo listed, domain name listing, and search engine ranking. The DotComBLITZ domain name software can also monitor domains by name or by keyword, generate domain name lists, and provide keyword suggestions.

Whois Search
Enter a domain for a whois lookup.

WhoIsFaster
It’s a freeware that speeds up WhoIs searches. In a few seconds, you can search for domain names by name, company or tracking number.

DomainSurfer
This tool allows you to see all of the registered domain names that contain a word of your choice. Even though it does not provide any domain generation capabilities like DomainFellow, DomainSurfer is a great resource for those looking to register a new domain.

Deleted Domains
Unlocks the “secrets” of expiring domain names. It offers this information free of charge.

Web Marketing Today
Maintains an extensive annotated database of links to important articles and resources in the field of Internet marketing and e-commerce, totaling over 16,000 links.

Popuri.us
It finds inbound links, rankings, and pagerank. It also includes a link to Whois and DNS info.

SEOmoz Page Strength Tool
The page strength tool can be useful if you are evaluating a domain that has some history. It will show a number of factors including pagerank, age of the domain, inbound links, and more.

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