Dec 29 2005

Looking for a domain name for your niche or blog?

By Jeremy Schoemaker 26 comments

So I was dinking around with the adwords and Google apis and I created this l33t domain name generator. located here

http://dev.shoemoney.com/public-tools/domainfinder/

Basically you give it a keyword for a niche that you are thinking about doing and it will query AdWords api (which I have unlimited calls atm) and the Google api to find popular searched for and high paying keyword phrases then it inserts hyphens and checks to see if the domain is registered.

Its pretty elite cause it will find the best possible domain for the keyword you give it. This should be a nice tool for those probloggers who are trying to make a living from niche blogging.

I am not sure how long I will leave it open to the public. In beta it was getting hammered pretty good and Im pretty sure Matt Cutts would dissaprove =P. I know he does not like the spammy-hyphen-domains.com

But honestly is this a bad thing? Curious to hear some of your comments/thoughts….

Here is a example for those who have not tried it-

For the keyword of roger it gave me roger-rabbit.com
For the keyword of fish it gave me animal-fish-general-pet.com
For the keyword of fluff it gave me marshmallow-fluff.com
For the keyword of google it gave me google-image.com (wow thats a pretty good one lol)
For the keyword of nextel it gave me new-nextel-phone.com

and so on…

Keep in mind these are not only suggested domains but they are domains that are available to be registerd.

I confirmed these results with the Yahoo Search Marketing (formally overture) db and they were all the top overture searched for phrases so I think this might be pretty useful (or dangerous) to the right person.

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Ray said on December 29th, 2005 at 2:12 am

This is one of the best tools I have ever seen. I have already registered about 8 domains! Its finding some awesome domains for me. Awesome tool $hoemoney!

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Sara said on December 29th, 2005 at 2:28 am

Great Tool man. I think even Matt Cutts might be impressed

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rick rockwell said on December 29th, 2005 at 9:56 am

HOLY COW SHOEMONEY this found a 400k overture term .com for me… thanks man for a sweet ass free tool

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Warlock said on December 29th, 2005 at 4:02 pm

Respect Shoe!

Great tool ..

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Hone Watson said on December 29th, 2005 at 4:45 pm

Hey thanks for the tool man.

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Tim said on December 29th, 2005 at 5:44 pm

Could tool Shoemoney. Can it find multi-word domains without hyphens?

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Nikki said on December 29th, 2005 at 7:57 pm

I finally retrieved my Google API and now the tool is unavailable…Just my luck

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alessandro said on December 30th, 2005 at 8:13 am

tool unavaiable

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Jayson said on December 30th, 2005 at 9:46 am

of course it’s down! Shite!

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ShoeMoney said on December 30th, 2005 at 10:11 am

fixed now

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Jayson said on December 30th, 2005 at 2:53 pm

okay i’m lame. How do I access my api key. I have an adwords account, but can’t find the “token”. I’ve looked on the page google tells me to look. Does everyone in adwords have the token?

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Danny said on December 31st, 2005 at 12:04 am

I attempted to play with this tool and never recieved the emails. Is it down or am I not working properly. Once you have an API it is good for any part of google(maps, adwords…) right?

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ShoeMoney said on December 31st, 2005 at 1:11 am

check your junk mail folder. I dont think Hotmail likes the way I format headers

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Danny said on December 31st, 2005 at 10:35 am

I changed my hotmail spam settings and it works fine now. This is a pretty sweet tool. Hopefully I won’t go on too bad of a domain name buying spree. Anyways, thanks for the help and happy new year!

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:-) said on December 31st, 2005 at 1:37 pm

Because you do it wrong, and the message ID ends up in the body.

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anty said on January 3rd, 2006 at 12:16 pm

I like this tool. Is there any way to get the sourcecode from you?

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Jack said on January 6th, 2006 at 11:21 pm

Woah, sweet tool. If you could somehow have it output domain names without hyphens…and, say a list of the top 10, instead of just one…that would be really really sweet.

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Nikki said on January 9th, 2006 at 8:47 pm

Thanks Again! It worked great! I went on a small domain buying spree–this can be addictive

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Peter T Davis said on January 15th, 2006 at 10:24 pm

Nice tool. Would it do domains without hyphens?

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Luke said on January 16th, 2006 at 1:45 pm

Thanks a lot! The code is great. It would be terrific if could be possible to query also the local/national databases…

Thanks again!

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Ian said on January 18th, 2006 at 3:21 pm

This is amazing - can’t believe the domain I found is still there!

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Glyn said on March 3rd, 2006 at 12:26 pm

Looks like a first class tool, just what I have been looking for. Is it still working though Because I have not received any emails yet?

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Dee said on April 12th, 2006 at 7:48 am

Darn it, it kept saying that my key are invalid? does this still work?

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Ken Savage said on April 16th, 2006 at 10:20 am

Yup me too just says that it looks like my Google API key is invalid.
I know it works too.

Shoe?

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Ken Savage said on May 23rd, 2006 at 2:02 am

ok API key is working again and your page says it will email me the results but I don’t get anything for about an hour now.

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Ken Savage said on April 6th, 2007 at 9:11 pm

OMFG I found the great domain name for a business keyword that I’ll have to try and figure out somehow.

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