The top 10 domain tools on the internet
So - you have your domain name or you're looking to purchase one... but surely thousands of people have done the same thing and found tools, gadgets or widgets to help them with their tasks? Of course they have - and here is our run down of the ten best domain tools available to you no matter what your requirements.
If you're looking to buy a domain from scratch or manage your existing domain portfolio, these domain tools are guaranteed to satisfy every whim.
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Trust us - you have to start here. This web site has almost every domain and DNS tool under the sun ready for you to use. It's comprehensive and wonderful - providing the very best information on domains that's available anywhere.
From standard Whois lookups to reverse DNS, reverse IP, domain search and even a free suggestions tool, DomainTools.com has it all.
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If you're looking to manage your domains in a style that suits you, you can't go wrong with this very web site. Domain-Safe allows you to import and manage any number of domain names into groups of your choosing; adding notes along the way; managing your data into exportable calendars (eg. iCalendar format) and generally making domain name management easy.
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A great tool for finding domain names - this is a suggestion tool taking in prefix and suffixes and creating available domains for you. Awesome!
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A specialised suggestion tool helping you find fun shortened domains like bit.ly, happi.ly and outside.in
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A regular suggestion tool engine that takes your ideas and phrases and turns them into domain candy - edible, sugary and sweet. Actually, ignore that - it just comes up with genuinely good domain suggestions for you.
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One of the best registrars (and certainly one of the biggest) GoDaddy are consistently amongst the cheapest domain name registrars. They do have their own reasonably limited selection of tools, but if you're playing with domains for purchase, their bulk-domain registration form is fun to play with. You'll soon have domains coming out of your ears!
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A bit like domaintools.com - network tools is seemingly more catered for the IT professional. Concentrating on more than just classic DNS management, network-tools.com really pushes the IT angle to the limit, offering services like pings, traceroutes, and even blacklist checking for spam-bl aware people.
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How many times have we used this site? It's an awesome collection of simple to use tools, requiring very little thought from the user, and providing information that even the doziest of admins can use. With many high-quality pay-for services, dnsstuff.com has it all.
And there we run out of ideas. Yes, I could fill spots 9 and 10 with more domain suggestion tools - but the truth is that you simply won't need any more than are presented above. DNS management and domain management tools are ten a penny but the best domain manager tools can always be found closest to home!
