I love this new Firefox plugin called Domain Lookup, which lets you quickly look for domain name availability on keywords which you simply highlight on your browser page.

So you see some combination of words in a webpage and wonder to yourself if they would be available to register as a domain name. All you do is highlight the text with your cursor, right click and do a domain lookup. A new tab opens up with the results of your domain name search. The plugin does the useful stuff you'd need it to, like remove spaces and illegal characters, and can be customised to use different registrars depending on your preference - there's a big list already and you just need to request other ones be added if you don't see your favourite there.

You can specify your top level domain of choice, such as .com, .co.uk, .net etc, but most registars tend to give most of the available options on the results page anyway.

I think it's especially useful if you're going through keywords on something like the Google Adwords Keyword Tool (see below).



A very nifty plugin for anyone that buys a lot of domains: Domain Lookup Firefox Extension.

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