New Tool Lets You Scan Web Pages for Available Domain Names

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

URL2Domain scans text and looks for corresponding domain names available for registration.

URL2domainWhenever I hear or read a new term I haven’t heard of, I add it to a list of possible domain names to register. A new tool call URL2Domain now makes that process easy: it will scan entire web pages to find words that aren’t registered in .com.

All you do is copy the URL you want scanned, paste it into the box at URL2Domain.com, and it starts scanning. It shows you the progress as it scans each word on the page and sees if the corresponding .com domain name is available.

Because basically every one word domain name is taken in .com, don’t expect to get a lot of hits. So far I’ve found mostly typos in articles coming up as available domain names. URL2Domain will find more available domain names if you use it to scan web sites that have never terms, such as slang dictionaries and scientific research.

One improvement already in the works that will increase the hit rate is the ability to scan against multiple TLDs in addition to .com. Although most words are taken in .com, you might find some good ones in .net, .org, or even country code domains.

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  1. Jade
    March 3rd, 2010 | 11:31 am

    Now that’s cool!

  2. Steve M
    March 3rd, 2010 | 5:09 pm

    Great idea … and; if the owner/s is/are listening; likely patentable.

    Thanks for the article.

  3. Marcus
    March 3rd, 2010 | 7:52 pm

    That is a great tool. I ran it on my site and saw some domains that were available. To bad they were typo’s. :)

  4. Paul Brin
    March 4th, 2010 | 4:18 am

    Thanks a lot!!
    This is the best new tool in a long time.
    I found two great names already today, including a fictional character ripe for exploitation; Tamatori.

  5. Paul Brin
    March 4th, 2010 | 4:22 am

    Hey Marcus, it’s too bad you don’t like typo’s.
    (jk)

  6. Live Domain Name Chat
    March 4th, 2010 | 10:40 pm

    Nice tool.. thanks for sharing.

  7. Paul Brin
    March 7th, 2010 | 12:58 am

    I assume that Par Penttinen, the owner of URL2Domain according to the WhoIs info, is watching this chat so I’d just like to ask that he consider adding a line showing the url searched along with the results.

  8. Pär (Pelle) Penttinen
    March 26th, 2010 | 9:27 am

    Hi Paul,
    ofc I’m watching this chat ;)

    URL on the search page is just one of all updates to come. We’re currently working on implementing support for more TLDs and a better scanning algorithm that’ll speed up the process with aprox. 80-100% :)

    Stay tuned!

    Regards,
    Pelle

  9. Paul Brin
    March 26th, 2010 | 11:58 am

    Thanks for the update Pelle.
    By the way, I find it interesting that you link all the results to GodAddy and not Joker.
    With all the traffic you are, or will be, generating I’d think they’d make you a great deal!

  10. Pelle Penttinen
    March 28th, 2010 | 7:32 am

    Oh, Joker was new to me (not that common over here), I’ll look in to that!

    Thanks!

    Regards,
    Pelle

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