Lean Domain Search finds available domain names that include your search term.
A couple years ago I wrote about domain finding tool Domain Pigeon.
Creator Matt Mazur is back with a new tool to identify available domain names that include a specific keyword.
Just type in a keyword and Lean Domain Search matches it with 1,000 words commonly used in domains. It then tells you which ones are available.
I tried out multiple searches on the site and was impressed with the results. This tool is very fast, returning results in just a few seconds. More importantly, it returned domain suggestions that are actually worth registering.
When I reviewed Domain Pigeon I complained that many of the names it returned violated all sorts of naming conventions. It appears this new tool takes that into account. In fact, on the FAQ page it says that domains with numbers and hyphens are excluded because they don’t pass the “radio test”.
There is no charge to use the service. The site makes money as an affiliate to several domain registrars.
Lean Domain Search is simple and by no means exhaustive. But it’s definitely worth adding to your domain tool chest.
Nameclerk says
I ran into Matt on Twitter last week and also tested the tool. I was also very impressed with the quality of domains it returned. Not a lot of high volume EMD’s but many nice, short brandables were available.
Larry says
The tool is also good to determine how valuable a particular single word is possibly to help a pitch to sell a domain to an end user.
For example if you do a search for “hotel” you will find 966 out of 1000 domains (according to what they check of course) taken.
But if you check “motel” you find only 365 out of the 1000 are available.
For factory 715 out of 1000 taken.
For karate 367 out of 1000 taken.
The organization could be better but I’m sure they will improve on that.
Matt should develop a “word score” along these lines.
Mike says
That’s an impressive tool indeed. Though I’ve had more success late with http://www.dombuddy.com/generator lately. Sometimes, if you’re looking for a shorter name, it might be a better idea to look not only at the most obvious choices– keyword lists combined with custom words may do the trick in that case.