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Short Domain Search

Domainr's search results now show vowel-stripped "shortened domains," which have become quite popular recently thanks to services like Bitly and Awe.sm.

Domainr does its best to show whether or not it's possible to register a domain, but many NICs and Registrars have their own rules for things like minimum # of characters in a domain, etc. If you encounter an error in Domainr's search results, please let us know in the forum and we'll get it fixed asap.

Enjoy!

Can Haz Everything (and Poland too)

Some domain search sites only return results for a handful of top-level domains, and most registrars only show you TLDs for which they handle registrations. While this might be useful for the registrar, it’s not necessarily best for the user.

Domainr covers the whole taco entire domain namespace, so your searches aren't arbitrarily limited. There are hundreds of country-specific domains, and thousands more second-level possibilities for each country domain, and Domainr searches them all:

• Generic domains like .com, .net and .org
• Country domains like .au, .es and .jp
• Second-level domains like co.uk, org.au and net.nz
• Sponsored domains like .asia, .jobs and .mobi
• Poland

Domain Name Search

Domainr is a search engine for domains. It breaks down your searches into possible domain names by checking both top-level and second-level domains, then tells you if they’re available for registration. By popular demand we added .com, .net and .org to its result list.

Domainr also supports IDN (internationalized domain names)—domains with accents, diacritics or other scripts like Hebrew, Korean or Cyrillic.

We’re exploring ways to make Domainr’s search results more useful, so definitely leave us a comment here (or on Get Satisfaction) if there are improvements you’d like to see!

Domainr Feature: Status Checking

One of Domainr's most important features is its ability to quickly check the status of domains you're searching for. It checks the DNS to see if your searches have any entries, and if it doesn't find any, assumes they're available for registration. This works for most domains, but some have implemented wildcard DNS—we've tried to catch as many of these as possible (like .st) and indicate this in Domainr.

Availability is entirely different than possibility though—sometimes top-level domains have their own registration restrictions. Here are some of the ones we've encountered (and indicate in the site):

• minimum length, like .in's 3-character minimum
• top-level registerability, like .ar
• international character support, like .com