Tool lets you monitor real time domain registration trends.
After writing about VeriSign’s new beta NXD data tool yesterday, I also learned that the company has upgraded its Domain Tag Cloud into a neat tool to monitor real time domain registration trends.
DomainView incorporates the same data from the tag cloud — keyword frequency in recently registered domain names — and brings it to multiple formats. It also adds domain suggestions so you can see available .com and .net domains that include the hot keywords.
The product comes in several formats including a web app, an API, and an embeddable widget you can place on web sites. There’s also an add-on for Firefox and Chrome that creates a constantly updating ticker on the bottom of your browser. The ticker shows popular keywords in recent registrations and indicates if particular keywords are trending up or down.
VeriSign plans to launch a DomainView iPhone/iPad app soon as well. [Update: the app is now available.]
Combined with DomainScore, savvy domainers can use this tool to find high quality unregistered domain names.
Jamie says
It would appear the “suggested” domains are based on the DomainScore database. I just checked the DomainScore on a couple domains they suggested and all had fairly higher DomainScores.
Andrew Allemann says
@ Jamie – interesting…that could be very helpful depending on the actual correlation b/t domainscore and traffic.
Jamie says
I’m not sure why but at least some data is pretty “old”. DomainView suggested “MoneyBan.com” which I checked with DomainScore and it displays 8.8 for the “7 day” and 6.7 on the remaining data, but then it states “scores updated on 06-13-2011”, which is nearly a month old.
So is “7 days” from June 13 or about July 1? I would have to assume June 13.
Old data is a killer when it comes to domains IMO, so it would be nice to get some clarification as to these numbers.
Michaela says
@Jamie I’m from Verisign and I wanted to let you know that the data has been updated. This is in beta, but our plan is to update it on a regular basis. Thanks for taking the time to give us feedback. We appreciate it.
Jamie says
Thanks for the update Michaela!
Jp says
@Jame & Michaela
Old data, new data, makes very little difference. what is really helpful is having both together.