Domainer Tools for finding and registering dropping domains that you should try or buy

Domaining is all about odds, everyone is trying to find the best domains to buy and pay the least amount for them. This usually happens with domain drops where some valuable domains for some reason arent renewed from their previous owner and eventually they drop in the pending delete phase and after some days they are available again for registration.

In order to track up the best domains ready to be dropped you need to spend several hours per day just to dig up all this pending delete or expired domain lists. After selecting the best ones usually you have to make a research to see if they have reseller or enduser value and if their Google Adwords average PPC value. Of course many other factors should be considered but we just wrote two of them as an example.

Accomplishing these tasks will make you spent lots of hours per day and still never be able to get the right domain under your account. Hours spent means lost money, possibilities and even quality of life. For that reason I recommend to use related services, free or with a subscription, that can save you lots of time and money.

Below I m going to list some of the services I find myself comfortable using and some other that I never tried but look promising.

Namecatch.com

FREE ONLINE SERVICE

What they offer:

• Free Dictionary Domain Lists
• Free Bulk Search Accross Multiple Sites
• Free Domain Monitor

Namecatch.com is my favourite service since they offer Free Expired Domain Sorting Tools in a user friendly way.
You can search domains based on many criteria like keywords(Starts with, Contains, Ends with), Auction Types(Godaddy, Namejet Prerelease, Dynadot Prerelease, Snapnames Prerelease etc), domain patterns like LLLL(CVCV, CVVC, CVCC etc.), vocabulary words(English, French, German, Spanish etc.) while results show the closing date, auction type and link, current price, bids and some important statistical details like TLDs taken, traffic(if available), alexa rank, backlinking domains and more.
I suggest you try them once and I m sure it will be a new bookmark for you.

Estibot.com

ONLINE SERVICE – Subscription Plans:

• Free(visitor), includes using platform only with 5 domains per time having some further reporting limitations
• Free(registered user)
  with the following limits:
  – Appraisal 50/day
  – Research 50/day
  – Whois 50/day
  – Advertiser Bid Tool 50/day
  – Trademark Analyzer 50/day
  – Word Parser 500/day
  – End-User Lead Generator none
• Domainer Pro $19.95/month
  with the following limits:
  – Appraisal 2,500/day
  – Research 2,500/day
  – Whois 2,500/day
  – Advertiser Bid Tool 2,500/day
  – Trademark Analyzer 2,500/day
  – Word Parser 5,000/day
  – End-User Lead Generator none
• Domainer Pro Exclusive $39.95/month
  with the following limits:
  – Appraisal 50,000/day
  – Research 50,000/day
  – Whois 50,000/day
  – Advertiser Bid Tool 50,000/day
  – Trademark Analyzer 50,000/day
  – Word Parser 100,000/day
  – End-User Lead Generator 50/day

What they offer:

• Bulk Domain Appraisal
• Bulk Domain Research
• Bulk Domain Whois
• Bulk Domain Advertiser Bid Tool
• Bulk Domain Trademark Analyzer
• Bulk Domain Word Parser
• Bulk Domain End-User Lead Generator
• Bulk Availability Tool
• Bulk Type-in Tool
• Bulk Availability Tool
• Bulk Keyword Bid Tool
• Bulk Typo Generator
• Trademark Analyzer
• Domain Generator Tool
• Domain Idea Tool
• Bulk Availability Tool
• IDN Converter
• Domain Extractor
• Keyword Parser
• API Access
• Daily Appraised Drop Lists

ONLINE SERVICE – Monthly Subscription Plans:

• Silver, 50 queries per month/$11.95
• Gold, 250 queries per month/$29.95
• Platinum, unlimited queries per month/$49.95

Keep in mind that Daily List Parsing costs 2 queries and PR / AGE / DMOZ / YAHOO / ALEXA 1 query
Checking domains from the toolbar doesn’t cost anything but it only accepts one domain at a time.
So lets say you want to have a daily domain list and apply all filters on it(Pagerank, Age, Dmoz, Yahoo and Alexa), that will cost you in total 7 queries, if, for example, you buy the Silver subscription query package you can use it for one week in a row.

What they offer:

• Parsing and exporting daily expired domain lists from snapnames(exclusive prerelease list) and namejet(last 5 days prerelease lists)
• Filtering those lists using filters like PR, Age, Dmoz listing, Yahoo directory listing and Alexa Rank
• .com and .net/.org result filtering
• Maximum and minimum letter length filtering
• Ability to export results in a txt and pdf file for later use
• Sorting results based on Alphabet, Length, Pagerank and Creation date
• Quick report on the sidebar for Single word domains found on the list
• Instand domain lookup sidebar widget which can fetch stats for one domain per time, good thing is that doesnt cost you any additional query credit

What they say about their service, SiteSpotter:

• Uses advanced lexical algorithms to filter out only dictionary word or dictionary word combination domains
• Outputs domain list while you watch so that you can analyze the results as the list is being parsed
• Display only domains with DMOZ, Yahoo, or other major directory listings
• AJAX interface updates domain statistics while you watch and formats your results in an easy-to-read, sortable list

SiteSpotter by N3twork.com is looking very promising, I liked how they parse their results and I particularly liked the domain toolbar widget which I used several times for showing stats about a domain(Pagerank, PR Validity, Alexa Backlinks, Creation Date, DMOZ Listing, Yahoo Listing, Yahoo Backlinks, Alexa Rank, Number of Bidders in auction) without needing to visit another page for that purpose. Nevertheless they need to redesign their backend in order to be more user friendly.
For example domain results can be showed in separate lines that contain columns with stats like, PR, DMOZ listing, Yahoo listing, Age etc. Domain Age is best to be shown as yrs and not as date so we can quickly know its exact age instead of applying on the fly the math calculation: current year minus listing year.
Also they can include a direct link for each domain in results so that we don’t have to copy it, open a new tab and paste it loosing precious time and patience, that way they can include their affiliate links and receive some additional income by them.
I suggest trying them once, its only 11.95 for parsing 7 daily domain lists and applying all filters, I m sure you ll get your money back by finding a great domain to resell or develop.

DeletedDomains.com

ONLINE SERVICE – Subscription Plans:

• One Week Trial/$9.99
• Monthly/$14.99
• Quarterly/$39.99
• Yearly/$99.99

What they offer:

• Perform UNLIMITED deleted domain searches
• Filter domain searches using extensive search criteria
• Export domain deletion results to CSV files
• Receive daily deleted domain email alerts
• Find deleted and pending .com, .net and .org domains
• Get Deleted Domains before anyone else

Expired Domains from DomainSoftware.com

DESKTOP SOFTWARE – FREE

What they offer:

• Win Desktop Application
• Finds domains that are soon to be expired
• Search domains using filters

DropAce.com

ONLINE SERVICE – FREE

What they offer:

• Pending Delete domain lists sorting by tld, length, keywors, words, category, hyphen, numbers, dropdate
• Pending Delete Dictionary domain lists available
• Pending Delete 3, 4 and 5 Letter domain lists available
• Godaddy Expiring domain lists
• Godaddy Expiring Dictionary Words domain lists
• Godaddy Closeouts domain lists
• Godaddy Closeouts Dictionary Words domain lists
• Snapnames Exclusive domain lists
• Snapnames Exclusive Dictionary Words domain lists
• Namejet Pre-release domain lists
• Namejet Pre-release Dictionary Words domain lists
• Afternic Expiring domain lists
• Afternic Expiring Dictionary Words domain lists
• Alexa Topranked domain lists

DropDay.com

ONLINE SERVICE – Subscription Plans:

• One Month(no auto-renewal)/$19.90
• Monthly/$18.90
• Quarterly/$50.70
• Semi-Annual/$89.40
• Yearly/$154.80

What they offer:

• Expiring domain lists
• Filter domain searches using search criteria as tld, letters, numbers and length
• Exclude searches from Hyphens, Numbers and/or IDN
• Show results only with Google/Yahoo/Bing SERP, Dmoz, Yahoo/Google dir, Domain keyword, Domain typo
• Advanced domain search using filters as visits per day, Google PR, Google links, Yahoo links, Creation year, Age history, key searches, CPC $, Competitors %, alexa Rank
• Search among, All Expiring Domains, Unexclusive Domains,SnapNames Exclusive, NameJet PreRelease, GoDaddy Exclusive, GoDaddy Closeouts
• Choose from all dates domain lists or just the next 4 days including the current date.
• Quick Link Stats from their domain lists

DropWatch.com

ONLINE SERVICE – Subscription Plans:

• Basic Membership – $15 per month
  -Receive an email of popular domains entering each status of the delete cycle.
  -Daily Pending Delete List
  -Daily Redemption Period List
  -Daily OnHold List
  -Daily Available List
• Premier Membership – $35 per month
  -Pending Delete Database (Searchable & Sortable)
  -Redemption Database (Searchable & Sortable)
  -OnHold Database (Searchable & Sortable)
  -Available Database (Searchable & Sortable)
  -My Private List
  -Backorder Check
  -The Ultimate Tool
  -Top Drops
  -Google Backlink Check
  -Google PR Check
  -Dictionary Domains and more…….

What they offer:

• Expiring domain lists based on calendar
• Dictionary/Popular/Search Engines Pending Delete domains
• Dictionary/Popular/Search Engines Redemption domains
• Dictionary/Popular/Search Engines OnHold domains
• Dictionary/Popular/Search Engines Available at Regfee domains
• Dictionary/Popular/Search Engines NetWork Solutions domains
• Dictionary/Popular/Search Engines Namewinner domains
• Domain Tools as Backorder Check, Google BackLink Check, Google PR Check, Google PR Lookup, Google Rank & PR Check