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The Domaining Directory

Registrars

Registrars

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Marketplace, Domain Parking (requires registration)

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Marketplaces

Marketplaces

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Chinese market. Auctions and Escrow Service.

Large affiliate network. Domain Parking and landing pages.

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Domain backordering and auctions.

Buy, sell and lease short domain names.

Buy and sell premium domains.

Payment plans and landing pages available.

ccTLD backordering and auctions.

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Buy and sell UK ccTLD names.

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Expired and Backorder auctions.

Domain leasing and installment plans available. Marketplace and landing pages.

Buy and sell Domains, Websites, Apps and more.

Buy and sell domains and websites.

Buy, sell and run Auctions. Expired auctions.

Live auctions and private brokerage.

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Buy, sell and Backorder domains. Exclusive inventory auctions.

168 hour reverse auctions for quick name liquidation.

Buy and sell domains to the trade on domaining's largest forum.

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Buy, Sell and Auction domains. Parking and landing pages available.

Buy, Sell and Park domains. Landing pages available.

Brandable Marketplaces

Brandable Marketplaces

Although brandable domains can be sold at most marketplaces these sites specialise in selling names that are easily brandable. This type of domain is usually a short made up word or a play on an existing word and can be sold with a logo and tagline.

Domains sold with logos.

Naming Products, Websites, Businesses and more.

Name, logo and tagline contests.

Domains sold with logos.

Over 17000 names listed.

Domains sold with or without logos.

Domains sold with logos.

Name, logo and tagline comtests.

Backordering & Expiring

Backordering and Expiring

These sites offer dropcatching and backordering services. Although every site is unique most will try to catch domains for a small fee payable on success. If there is more than one backorder on a caught domain it will usually go to auction.

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ccTLD backordering from £49.99 to £59.99.

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ccTLD backordering and Auctions.

Downloadable dropcatching software.

ccTLD dropcatching and Auctions..

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Backorder and Expiring auctions.

Domain backordering from £14

Backordering Lite and Drop Lists available.

Expiring and deleting domain aucions.

Bulk domain backorders and auction bidding available.

Expiring domain auctions.

Namepal's Fetch! system uses ten other dropcatching platforms.

ccTLD backordering.

Backordering and New GTLD Auction services.

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Auction and Drop Lists

Dropping, Expiring, Pending Delete and Auction Lists

The following sites have lists of dropping and expiring domains and any ongoing auctions. These lists are compiled of names from multiple registrars and auction sites.

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Parking and Monetization

Parking and Monetization

These sites offer monetization services that allow your unused domain names to create a passive income from their natural traffic. This is usually done by the placement of clickable ads.

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An ad tech company offering a range of tools to increase advertising returns.

Flexible templates and "For Sale" banners to show your domain is... well... for sale.

Parking available even for domains not listed for sale with Bido.

In depth data and analysis to help you better monetize your domains.

Detailed landing page design aimed at maximizing ad revenue.

Offering mobile optimized landing pages.

Customizable parkiing landing pages.

Two tiers of membership available with differing revenue payouts.

A parking company built for domainers by domainers.

Over 300 metrics to provide highest possible yield.

Place targeted ads on your live/working website (not for landing pages)

A large Google Adsense alternative with customizable ads.

Monetizing brand typos with zero click parking.

Offering direct advertizers to cut out the middle man.

Standard and professional (over 1000 domains) tiers available.

Choose from logos, photos, taglines and over 500 themes.

Ads that utilize CPC, CPM and CPA.

Specializing in adult and dating traffic.

Customizable, auto or self optimization and multilingual ads.

Domain Management

Domain Managment

Life is easier when you can control all aspects of your domaing world from one place. These site aim to allow you to do just that. Services include marketplace builders and monetization managment.

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Services include Auto Monetization, Brokerage and a Marketplace.

Portfolio manager, customizable white label marketplace and monetization.

Monetization and marketing managment platform.

Advanced portfolio monitoring and managment system.

For sale pages, marketplace builder, statistics and tools.

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Portfolio management and expert consultation. Brokerage and Appraisals also available.

Research Tools

Keyword Tools & Name Generators

Keyword Tools and Name Generators

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Search for every domain registered containing a specific keyword.

Enter  keyword and the generator will suggest a domain name.

Tool that generates available domain names as you type.

Shows every domain and extension registered with a specific keyword.

Enter your businesses keywords and get name suggestions.

Maximize your advertizing by selecting the right keywords and phrases.

Shows what people are searching for by location.

Shows combinations of unregistered .coms with a specified keyword.

A Google Keyword Planner alternative.

Gives all possible combinations of chosen lists of keywords.

In depth keyword research and metrics tool.

Gives available name sugestions containing a chosen keyword.

Gives all possible combinations of chosen lists of keywords.

Domain name generator with useful naming guide for beginners.

Lists all domains registered with a given keyword(s).

Domain name search and suggestion tool.

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Shows if a domain is taken, available or purchasable.

Shows the keywords and ads being used by a given website.

Domain name suggestions with specific keyword.

Whos & DNS Tools

Whois and DNS Tools

DNS and record type research tool.

DNS and Whois Tool Reviews and a selection of Free To Use Tools.

Whois and reputation lookup.

DNS and threat data for website security.

Whois lookups, DNS Records and Reverse DNS records.

Historical DNS database for TLDs and ccTLDs.

IP location tools and Reverse DNS lookup tools.

Whois lookup for UK domain names.

Historical DNS database. See a domains DNS history.

Large set of DNS, Whois and IP search tools.

Whois search, domain names, website and IP tools.

Whois lookup. Also has a Registrar.

Whois lookup.

Current and historical whois lookups and Database download.

Statistics

Statistics

Domain registration stats and complete List of TLDs.

List of TLDs with registrant stats and registration price comparisons.

Up to date NTLD performance stats and trend reports.

GTLD registration stats

Registrar, Parking and Fraud stats plus launch Calendar.

TLD zone file stats and ccTLD List.

Other Research Tools

Misc

Internet archive with Wayback Machine that shows historical screenshots of websites.

Large database of historical sales. Search a keyword or view most Recent sales.

Domain name search tool. Lists of different types of domain for sale.

Price comparison tool for domain registrations, renewals and transfers. Reviews.

Language translation tool.

Social media management platform.

Find the geographical location of any IP address.

Social media handle availability checker.

Tools to check if a domain is Blacklisted. Also has MX Lookup and domain Health Checker.

Historical sales database.

Converts text into punycode for IDN purposes.

UK domain Tools and Sales Database.

ngTLD historical sales database.

Price comparison site for domain registrations and renewals. Promo Codes.

Sales and Marketing tools.

Blogs & Forums

Blogs and Forums

Whether you're looking to pass the time or learn something new, this list will keep you busy for hours at a time. You'll find busy forums, interesting and engaging blogs from industry leaders and  informative podcasts.