Alright, I have seen my fair share of domain name searching tools. The newest animal to enter the pack is Register.com’s free advanced domain search tool. Yeah, I think they could have come up with a catchier name as well. So how does it work?

First you have to tell it what domain name you “wish” to have, and your first and last name. That seems simple enough right? Then you either go down the route of business or personal. Next you have to tell them what this Web site is going to be for. Is it going to be personal? Is it going to be for your family? Is it going to be for a celebration?

Moving on, you can enter a couple of extra keywords to be tossed in for kicks. Last but not least, you enter in your location – such as a town name or area you live in. After that is all said and done, hit “Find my Domain Name” and you are given a big long list of ones you can choose from.

All in all I think this is a pretty nice tool to help beginners walk through the process of picking the perfect domain name. The good side is it gives you a lot of results to choose from and an easy “drag and drop” so you can pick as many as you want before you buy. The bad news is that around the end of the search results, they start tossing in domain name choices that had nothing to do with your data you gave them.

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