I just love this new domainer tool from Richard Kershaw of Quality Nonsense!

It’s basically a quick way of looking up domain names from any text you see on a webpage using Firefox.

First step is to install the Firefox extension.
Then, say you’re reading a breaking news story today about a new tech discovery and you want to get the jump on registering the generic keywords that may be related to this new discovery.

You just highlight the example phrase with your mouse, right click (or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + D), and click the new menu option that says “domain lookup for “examplephrase.com”.

Within seconds, the domain is looked up at your registrar of choice so you are clicks away from securing the domain name.

Here’s a quickie video I made showing how it works. As of this writing, the domain example used in this video is unregistered ;)

This may or may not be a big domainer secret, but registering URLs based off breaking news stories is one way to find unregistered domains that could turn into treasures. I’ve sold at least 2 domains in the aftermarket that I registered after hearing about the phrase from a news story.

In fact, as I was typing this blog post, looking for examples to show in my video, I found 2 or 3 other cool generic phrases in other CNN articles that were register worthy.

If you are a domainjunkie like me and you haven’t installed this tool yet, stop reading this blog post right now and head over to QualityNonsense and get the new Firefox extension Richard Kershaw created.

What’s in it for him? I asked Richard which of the registrars used his affiliate links when the domain names were registered. He responded back very quickly with this list:

“At the moment, the affiliate links are: Moniker, GoDaddy, Melbourne IT, Dotster, 123reg, uk2 and NetSol. Others ma become affiliate links in future.

IF there’s any volume of demand, I’ll offer an affiliate opt-out.”

eNom is my registrar of choice, so it really didn’t matter to me, but I thought that might be a bit of useful information for you domainjunkies out there. I think a tipjar would be appropriate for Richard’s site. I personally would rather give a PayPal tip than have my domain registrations tracked by an affiliate link.

Either way, this is definitely a must have tool for domainers. Well worth the download!