I like giving feedback to companies with whom I do business because I think the information I share can help enhance products and services. DomainTools is seeking feedback from members about its offerings, and they’re asking members to take a 10 minute product survey.
Here’s a message I received from the company yesterday afternoon, with a special offer for members who take the time to complete the survey:
“As a part of our ongoing efforts to improve our
If you’ve done a Whois search this afternoon using DomainTools, it’s likely you noticed that the DomainTools website underwent a major redesign. Along with the redesigned website, the company also revealed a new, black and white logo.
The tagline in the main image states “every online investigation starts with DomainTools,” and I believe the tagline gives away who the company is targeting with this redesign. Domain investors use DomainTools religiously. Most people who are professionals probably couldn’t function as well (or as comfortably) without using DomainTools. The number of
In March, I wrote an article about how the Domain Search Tool can help you find a buyer for a domain name, and Andrew Allemann recently posted a great video illustrating how to use the tool. In short, this DomainTools tool can help you find other domain names that use your keyword string in them, and it is an exceptional tool to help you find someone to buy a domain name.
I want to give you a bit of a warning if you are using this tool though, based on something that happened to a friend of mine a week ago. It’s not the fault of the tool, but it’s more of a business risk.
About a week ago, I wrote an article with some insight about how to use the Domain Search Tool, which is a free tool from DomainTools. I want to share another way to use the tool, this time to help you sell domain names.
In the past, I used LeadRefs to find potential buyers for my domain names. Unfortunately, LeadRefs closed shop, so I now employ the “old fashioned” method of finding buyers by looking through Google results to see advertisers and see what companies are listed in the organic results. This is certainly a good way to find leads, but it can be time consuming.
The Domain Search Tool can help you find prospective end user buyers. What you should do is
I use DomainTools on a daily basis. In fact, it’s probably one of the five websites I visit most on a daily basis, most specifically for the Whois Tool. One tool I underutilize is the Domain Search tool, and I want to share how it can help you buy domain names.
On the DomainTools website under the “Buy Domains” tab, there is a link for Domain Search. Clicking that link will take you directly to the Domain Search tool. With this tool, you can search specific keywords to find domain names that are registered and unregistered.
One of the best searches is for
