8 Apps & Tools to Monitor & Manage Domains
Domain names can make or break a successful online presence, so finding the right ones is important. On the Internet every day, hundreds of thousands of domain names expire while even more are produced. If you’re looking to get that perfect domain for your website the opportunity to get it can come and go without you even realizing it. This is why monitoring is so important to any domain management program. You also need to monitor your current domains so that you don’t let any of them expire and slip away from your control without you knowing it. Here are 8 applications and tools that you can use for domain monitoring and management.
- Bust A Name: an online Web resource that is useful for finding available domains that match your requirements and to monitor domain names for status changes. To help you find domains that you can use, BustaName will enhance searches by prepending and appending letters and even alternate spellings (such as omitting vowels). You can create a custom tracking table filled with potential domain candidates that you can rank by quality and potential as part of your monitoring program.
- Domain Punch: an application that installs on your Windows computer to track business assets such as domain names on the Internet. With special solutions geared toward large and small business customers, you can get a program with the features you need to track your domains and to find new ones as well.
- DNZoom: helps you manage your registrar accounts, parked domains, and domain security. Using DNZoom, users can secure domains with “Bank-Level” security, giving you the peace of mind knowing that your domain names won’t be taken away from you right under your nose. With DNZoom, you can reclaim hours of productive time that you’ve been spending on domain monitoring. It even has the capability of tracking the earnings you are generating from parked domains. DNZoom is an essential tool for effective domain monetization.
- Domainer: a Mac OS X app that gives you lookups for domain data such as page ranking information, back links, Diggs, and more. This powerful research helps you identify what domains are worth buying and at what price. Domainer will sync with iCal to keep track of domain expirations. You can also use Domainer to export and import Smart Groups and lists.
- iWantMyName: a Web-based application that will help you manage and register international domain names. The service also facilitates connecting your domain with other online services and apps.
- Domain Portfolio Manager: a PHP/MySQL browser based application that is designed to give you powerful but easy to use domain tracking and management. This package allows you to categorize domains, sort domain lists, find SEO safe URLs, automatically obtain domain creation and expiration dates, and conveniently update WhoIs data.
- DomainTyper: a search engine styled application that will search domains based on your input. The system will report back to you whether or not you can implement your idea. This website also has a dynamic random domain creator that can help give you new and creative ideas for naming your domain.
- DNScoop: a website that attempts to value online property. It bases its calculations on the number of links headed for a domain, how long the domain has been established. DNScoop also looks at historic traffic data, overall popularity, and page rank when determining how much a domain is worth.
By taking advantage of the powerful Web-based and computer-based tools on the internet, you can transform domain monitoring and domain management from laborious time-intensive tasks to informative and exciting simple tasks. The apps listed here are a good starting point for automating your domain tasks.
Tom Walker is a writer and designer who works with an online ecommerce store based in the UK who specialise in printer ink. He is an editor and contributor to their design blog where he posts about vintage advertising, modern art and print media.
used tires | May 1st, 2010 at 11:25 am #
I’ve been using DNZoom and DomainTyper for a long time and can vouch for them as being very useful. Didn’t know about some of the others ones on the list, looking forward to trying them all out and some point.
Till then,
Jean
Accident law | May 4th, 2010 at 7:29 am #
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This website also has a dynamic random domain creator that can help give you new and creative ideas for naming your domain.
Cheap Desktop | May 8th, 2010 at 12:32 pm #
I have heard of most of these except domainer. Going to have to check that one out as it sounds like something that I have been looking for for myself.
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Surfers accommodation | May 18th, 2010 at 6:54 am #
Great ideas…search optimization is something I’ve struggled with. I also utilize Google analytics now, but initially didn’t realize that it was free.
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Great lists. thanks. I am also using google analytics to keep track of my visitors.
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These apps are really good and can manage your domain, having a good abality to moniter the website.
Keep Such a Nice post ahead..
Jacob
Cheap Delhi flights | May 26th, 2010 at 4:39 am #
I am really having lot of problems .. .. thanks .. problem kind of solved
Domains for sale | May 30th, 2010 at 2:04 pm #
Even for a domainer, such as myself, there are some resources in your list that I did not know about. I’ve put your RSS feed in my reader and I’ll be back. Keep up the good work!
Accident law | June 1st, 2010 at 6:38 am #
If you manage a domain for the neighborhood Little League or the photography club, you can personalize Windows Live for your group.
Komodo Dragon | June 1st, 2010 at 5:05 pm #
These are some really neat domain name tools, my biggest fear sometimes in using them is that the website owners may steal a big domain name idea that I or anyone else may come up with, hehe.
Concert Tickets for Sale | June 3rd, 2010 at 10:41 am #
I am a very big fan of bust a name. Can’t tell you how many hours that tool has saved me on domain lookups!
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DomainPunch is my favorite domain monitorin application. I recommend it to everyone.
webmaster seo | June 7th, 2010 at 2:53 am #
Very good ideas
I’m searching domain everyday. Thanks for information
promotional items | June 9th, 2010 at 11:35 pm #
The failures of parent domains, particularly to maintain secure and available DNS services, has not been a huge problem with the DNS. I believe this is largely because those with malicious intent have preferred other means of attack.
costumes | June 10th, 2010 at 4:36 pm #
thanks for sharing your idea. I knew what is the problem of my site. the keyword.
Eduardo | June 11th, 2010 at 4:40 am #
These tools are very useful, very helpful in our service!
seo web service | June 17th, 2010 at 11:48 am #
You need to add those new domains as Addon domains in cPanel, and you also need to access your domain control panel and update the name servers for each domain to the same name servers we provided for your primary domain.
costumes | June 19th, 2010 at 4:40 am #
how about free hosting?can we still manage the domain?
or the hosting site is the responsible for that?
Aluminum Laptop Cases | June 23rd, 2010 at 6:26 pm #
Awesome list of domain related tools. Right now I don’t buy enough domains to need this kind of software, but I’ll keep this in mind if I get more into the domain biz. It is something that I would like to add to my existing income streams.
costumes | June 27th, 2010 at 6:03 am #
I have tried using wordtracker to search the possible keyword. . .it is also effective same as google analytics
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Bidet | July 13th, 2010 at 8:22 pm #
These are all great tools to manage your domains. Thanks for sharing them.
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fab | August 1st, 2010 at 12:32 pm #
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Fashion Photography | August 4th, 2010 at 3:12 am #
i registered a domain for my own web site,but i didn’t have access to it. How to manage my domain web pages ?. For that how to take web host space .Tell me the cheapest and the best web host provider name?
Carlton | August 5th, 2010 at 4:42 am #
Also, please list some domain name generator tools. Sometimes you cannot just get the idea in your mind. You need a tool which gives you suggestions to choose a domain name.. yahoo smallbiz use that but it’s not that useful
Fashion Photography | August 11th, 2010 at 7:04 am #
I just paid for a plan which claims unlimited domain names included in the hosting. As soon as I started asking about how to add new domains, they changed the help screen in my cpanel (no more manage domains button) and they don’t reply to my emails. I am still within 30-days money back guarantee, but I want to give them a chance to respond first.
Tej Kohli | August 17th, 2010 at 4:18 am #
very Good List you had created .. but you have to put more tools …….How to manage Domain through your Mobile
festival arts | August 20th, 2010 at 12:34 am #
Good points Jim! I agree with all your sentiments. I think that bloggingstartup also ticks all the boxes. When I’m reading a lot of blogs only a small minority will stick in my head enough for me to bother typing them into the address bar.
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Carlton | September 2nd, 2010 at 6:24 am #
Bust a name is quite useful to get more ideas about domain names.
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I prefer choosing a right domain that is generic and well known already.
car battery | September 4th, 2010 at 7:26 am #
Those are some really excellent tools. I didn’t know about most of them, except for DomainPunch, which I’ve used quite a bit.