Tag: REGISTRAR

I'm not exactly sure how fresh this news is, but apparently the company that was supposed to be handling registration for Libya's .ly top-level domain name but had utterly failed to do so since April 2004 has been given the boot. As of October 14 of this year, .ly registration is in the more capable hands of GPTC, Libya's General Post and Telecommunications Company. Why is this news? Because now ...

Google has just announced a partnership with GoDaddy and eNom, two leading domain name registrars, to allow new users of their Apps for Your Domain service to register a domain right from within Google's signup process. This is a killer idea that, in hindsight, sounds like a completely logical step to take, but I bet most didn't even see it coming. After you sign up for a Google Account or log in ...

Ajax domain search has been done before, but nevertheless I'm fond of Domjax's shiny interface. Like other services, it pulls up domain information as you type, but presents rather more information in a nice, clean interface. In addition to telling you if the domain name you enter is available with any TLD and giving you three registrar options, Domjax also shows SEO tools like Google and Yahoo! ...

Ah, Ajax. How fond I am of thee. Instant Domain Search is what it sounds like: As you type in the entry field, it shows you in real time whether the .com, .net, and .org domain names are available. If the domain is available it presents you with a number of registrar options (I wish it showed prices next to each), and if it's not available it gives you options for back-ordering, Alexa query, and ...

I do a lot of domain name lookups, some for actual business or research reasons, many just out of curiosity. For quite awhile I used Whois.sc because it was handy: you could type in whois.sc/example.com in any browser's address bar to go straight to the WHOIS record without any fuss (no EULAs, TOSes, CAPTCHAs, or logins), and it had some other nice features like looking up .com/net/org/us/etc. ...