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Domainsurfer
http://www.domainsurfer.com/
Special feature: offers some wildcard search capability for domain names
registered in major gTLDs.
Domainsurfer offers some degree of wildcard searching. If you simply search for
any domain name without a TLD extension, Domainsurfer will find all
appearances of that search string regardless of where the string appears in the
domain name. For example, if I search for [sonia], Domainsurfer will find
smithsonian as well as sonia-net. In order to find domain names that begin with
a string, prepend a carat (A) to the string, e.g., to find sonia-net but not
smithsonian, the query is [Asonia]. Only queries the .com, .org, .net, .biz, .info
gTLDs.
EasyWhois
http://www.easywhois.com/
Special feature: automatic universal first- and second-level Whois lookups.
Automatically searches for most gTLD and country-level domains, including
second-level domains, e.g., [amazon.co.uk] In March 2004, EasyWhois found it
necessary to add a Turing number field to cut down the autobots and data mining
activity. All this means is that you must enter the number in the green box before
running a query.
Geektools
http://www.geektools.com/whois.php
Special feature: universal domain namellP address search across all TLDs.
Geektools has long been a staple of many analyst toolkits by providing a fast and
easy universal Whois lookup for both domain names and IP addresses. Users
must enter full name (domain plus TLD) or IP number (no partial searches or
wildcard function). Geektools also requires users to enter the text shown below in
the Key field before submitting a query because of autobots and data mining
activity.
Namedroppers
Special feature: unusual wildcard
domain names in the major gTLDs.
http://www.namedroppers.com/
option to run multiple keyword searches for
Namedroppers offers a different approach: you can enter a number of keywords
to include or exclude in your search. So, a search for domain names that contain
the keywords [national] and [security] and exclude the keyword association will
find 153 domain names out of 29 million, including nationalairportsecurity.com
and internationalnetsecurity.com. Unfortunately, Namedroppers only queries
.com, .net, .org, and .edu TLDs.
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