HELP – Domain Finder

This command researches the whois database to find available domain names from one convenient screen.

Enter a Domain Name(s) in the Domain Query Box WITHOUT the (www.) NOR the suffix (.com, .net, .org or .edu).

For example “yahoo” NOT “www.yahoo.com”. 

You may research more than one possible domain by entering each on a new line.  Next select the suffix you wish to use (.com, .net, .org or .edu). Then click the OK button. 

For more information about the suffixes, or to register a domain, please visit the InterNIC at http://rs.internic.net. 

Your results will be displayed as following:

Researching Domains using Whois Server: [rs.internic.net:43]

Taken		YAHOO.COM
Taken		YAHOO.NET
Taken		YAHOO.ORG
FREE		YAHOO.EDU
Taken		EXCITE.COM
Taken		EXCITE.NET
Taken		EXCITE.ORG
FREE		EXCITE.EDU
. . . .

If the Internet Domain is available for registration, the following message will be displayed:

FREE		YAHOO.EDU

If the Internet Domain is on hold, meaning that the registrant has either not paid for the domain or the domain is in some form of litigation, the following message will be displayed:

On Hold	SOMEDOMAIN.COM

ADVANCED OPTIONS:

The following values are adjustable by clicking the more… button:

Whois Server – To change the current whois server, simply select another server from the list provided.

ADVANCED QUERIES:

In addition to researching just raw queries (example: yahoo) you may also specify the exact domain (example: yahoo.com).  Specific entries are not processed with any other suffix types.

Sample Query:

Yahoo.com
Excite
Nettoolbox.com

.com and .net suffixes selected

Will return the following results:

Researching Domains using Whois Server: [rs.internic.net:43]

Taken		YAHOO.COM
Taken		EXCITE.COM
Taken		EXCITE.NET
Taken		NETTOOLBOX.COM

This function is very helpful if you are waiting for a specific domain to become available.