Four tricks to access whois information on DomainTools faster.

Last week I visited the DomainTools offices in Seattle and it inspired me to write a series of posts about how I use DomainTools.

This first article is about what we all use DomainTools for at the simplest level: whois lookups. If you are manually going to domaintools.com and typing in your whois query, you’re wasting time. Here are four ways to access a whois record on DomainTools much faster.

1. Whois Toolbar Bookmark – drag this simple bookmark to your browser’s link bar. Then when you’re visiting a page, just click the bookmark and it will go directly to the whois record for that web site.

2. Google Toolbar Plugin – You can add the DomainTools plugin to your Google toolbar. It works similar to the bookmark; when you’re on a web page just click the button to access the whois record.

3. Direct navigation – if you aren’t currently on the web site you want to look up, just type in domaintools.com/domain.tld to immediately access the whois record. This is much faster than going to the domaintools.com home page and typing in a query.

4. Google search – use this only if you’re looking for the domain’s registration and expiration date. On Google type in “whois domain.tld”. The first result will show the domain’s key dates with a link to the full record on DomainTools. (Note that Google is showing key dates because it relies on this data when constructing its search results.)

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Four tricks to access whois information on DomainTools faster.

Last week I visited the DomainTools offices in Seattle and it inspired me to write a series of posts about how I use DomainTools.

This first article is about what we all use DomainTools for at the simplest level: whois lookups. If you are manually going to domaintools.com and typing in your whois query, you’re wasting time. Here are four ways to access a whois record on DomainTools much faster.

1. Whois Toolbar Bookmark – drag this simple bookmark to your browser’s link bar. Then when you’re visiting a page, just click the bookmark and it will go directly to the whois record for that web site.

2. Google Toolbar Plugin – You can add the DomainTools plugin to your Google toolbar. It works similar to the bookmark; when you’re on a web page just click the button to access the whois record.

3. Direct navigation – if you aren’t currently on the web site you want to look up, just type in domaintools.com/domain.tld to immediately access the whois record. This is much faster than going to the domaintools.com home page and typing in a query.

4. Google search – use this only if you’re looking for the domain’s registration and expiration date. On Google type in “whois domain.tld”. The first result will show the domain’s key dates with a link to the full record on DomainTools. (Note that Google is showing key dates because it relies on this data when constructing its search results.)

© DomainNameWire.com 2009.

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Monthly GreatDomains auction ends tomorrow.

Sedo’s monthly GreatDomains auction ends tomorrow, but no major domain name sales appear to be in the works. One domain may tip the scales: 80.com, which is currently at $60,000. The domain hasn’t met its reserve but the reserve is under $100,000.

The top domain in the auction to meet its reserve so far is 434.com at $8,100 with 13 bids. 434 is the area code for the south central area of Virginia.

A number of three letter domains in the auction have hit their reserves:

maj.com $5,201
gjv.com $4,299
ytt.com $4,200
juy.com $4,000
fuw.com $3,800
vxr.com $3,332

With a day left and most three character domains over $4,000, it looks like the market for three character domains may be improving somewhat. Over the past couple months low quality three character domain names had dipped into the $3,000s. I just sold one for $4,000 myself.

Although it’s not in the GreatDomains auction, BrandSpace.com will close tomorrow for 10,000 EUR.

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