DomainsBot.com, a very nice domain name brainstorming site I previously wrote about, has some intriguing new applications they’ve put together and placed in their new DomansBotLabs section. They will provide you with considerable statistics and tools to help you better design your name selection criteria. The site is wonderfully designed for your immediate understanding of how to proceed, the data is laid out clearly and the tools are simple to use.
Word Trends
Type in a keyword and you will get a graph showing the domains registered (within the major TLDs ) over time that contain that keyword. You can select additional keywords to include in the graph to view their relative popularity. For example, entering Coke and Pepsi shows two trend lines with similar growth rates, but the number of Coke names registered is nearly twice that of Pepsi.
Domain Stats
This page shows a series of statistical data, graphs, trendlines and conclusions regarding the value of domain names given various aspects of the name. Reports include number of domains sold and values of domains sold by length, number of keywords; and parts of speech. There are 38 figures in all! Really, there is a lot of valuable data here.
Search Cloud
This cool tool provides a dynamic “visual cloud” that suggests new available domain names based on relationships between keywords in existing domain names. It’s difficult to really describe how the results are displayed, so just try it out.
Split-it
As readers of this blog know from reading our wildly popular Hilarious Domain Name Mispronouncings article, there can sometimes be an unintentional double meaning for a domain name if keywords are split in different ways. For a famous example, ExpertsExchange.com also reads ExpertSexChange.com. Use Split-it to avoid these embarrassing and costly mishaps. As you type the word, the Visual Splitter will show you the various possibilities and tell you which is likeliest.
There is also another application called Shadow. It’s not a tool, but a small piece of software that you download on to your computer that will work in a distributed computing fashion to help DomainsBot crunch the massive data in order to better provide more free statistical reporting to you. It works similarly to the Berkeley University’s Seti program, if you are familiar with that. Shadow is not something in which you have to participate to get their reports.
It’s apparent a lot of work went into the DomainsBotLabs project and the quality of their work and the sheer volume of data reflect that. My hat is off to these guys and look forward to see what further tools and information they will bring to us in the future.
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