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Domain name investors process a large amount of data and information every day to find relevant pricing, potential new investments and to seek out money making opportunities. Like many of you, I use a number of free services daily to find what I'm looking for. Below, I'd like to show you the free services that I use, and why I use them.

If you have your own suggestions for free daily services, please post a comment below.


LinkedIn
To conduct outbound domain sales, you'll need to have contacts. I've found that one of the best places to find contacts within any company is LinkedIn. The business social network has over 430mm users, with 128mm in the USA, meaning that any targeted end-user is likely to be on LinkedIn.

The majority of vital company contacts can be found in some shape or form on LinkedIn, which is why it's often my first port of call when conducting outbound sales. LinkedIn is completely free to everyone, but there are a few premium upgrades that may be of use, depending on how much you plan on using the service.

For the majority of domainers, the free version will be enough, and will allow you to make vital industry contacts. It'll also mean that you may be able to conduct outbound domain sales far more efficiently, thanks to LinkedIn's search functions.


Gmail
My email system is based at Gmail, like over 900mm other people on Earth. I find it to be the best free solution for email, plus it has the added benefit of supporting plugins. Plugins, which can be installed on Google's Chrome browser, can enhance your inbox to add extra features to suit your own needs.

I use two Gmail plugins; Sidekick and Streak. Sidekick is an excellent email tracking solution, and Streak gives you a Customer Research Management platform in your inbox. Both have free options for limited use, but even the free versions will improve your inbox, and in particular, your domain sales skills.

I have covered both Sidekick and Streak in previous articles on NamePros, so I won't go into detail about them here. Suffice to say that the two plugins are two of the most important services I use.


ExpiredDomains.net
This is a service that I can't believe is free. ExpiredDomains.net is a comprehensive list of pre-release, pending delete domains and auctions from a number of different auction houses such as GoDaddy, NameJet and SnapNames.

By setting up filters at ExpiredDomains.net, you're able to quickly search through thousands of domain names that you could buy in the coming days. Whatever your budget, ExpiredDomains.net can help you discover domains to buy to either hold or resell. There are similar services available, but there are very few that can match the power of ExpiredDomains.net


NameBio
One of the largest databases of domain name sales available is open to you at NameBio.com. Every morning, I take a look at NameBio to see prices of auctions that have closed the day before, and I also look in more detail at domain sales in categories that I have an interest in - such as 6N .COMs.

There are other domain sales databases available, such as DNPric.es, but I prefer to stick to NameBio. Chaomi is a website that I only read once a week, if that. I think the data there can be manipulated fairly easily by a small amount of investors.


Instant Messaging
Skype and WeChat are my two instant messengers of choice. I stay in contact with investors and brokers all over the world with these two free services. On Skype, I have connections with most brokers, and some large investors that I check in with periodically.

WeChat is primarily to talk with contacts from China, but it's also used as a tool to access some international domaining groups. Communicating via WeChat is fairly simple, no matter whether there's a language barrier or not; the built in translation tools mean you can hold a conversation in any language.


Twitter
Twitter has become one of my go-to sources for reading domain related news. People such as Jamie Zoch and George Kirikos do an incredible job of publishing domain related news. Many of the two-letter .COM sales reports and SEC findings come from George and Jamie.

All major domain related blogs and companies (including NamePros) have a presence on Twitter, so it's worth following a few of them if you're fairly active on the social network.


NamePros
Unsurprisingly, NamePros is one of my 10 domain related services. The largest domain community offers a lot of content and the chance to interact with other investors. There's also the active marketplace that gives members the chance to buy and sell domains without commission.


Domaining.com
Although Twitter is one of my personal favourite platforms for following domain related news, you still can't beat Domaining.com. The news aggregator has been offering its news feed and regular newsletter to investors for many years.

It's still one of the most valuable resources in the domain industry, thanks to its free-to-view collection of blog and news feeds.


Who.is
Up until recently, I was an ardent DomainTools user. However, since their account pricing changes, I've opted to use Who.is for the majority of my domain WHOIS lookups, which usually stretch into the hundreds per day.

I usually check WHOIS details for a number of reasons such as outbound sales, portfolio management and potential investment opportunities.

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Which services could you not do without on a daily basis? Share them below.
 
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How come no one mentioned Whoisology.com? Which allows you to view domains owned by someone whom you wish to contact. I use this to gauge the possibility interest in a domain name I wish to sell and I know if the person is a domainer or non-domainer in order to avoid the former lol
I think no one mentioned that because it is not free..
 
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I think no one mentioned that because it is not free..
Whoisology.com has paid memberships but a free account will still get you a limited amount of lookups per day.
 
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Under Linux just use terminal-command: whois example.tld
Instead of 3rd-party websites... and where caching is enabled also...
I agree with Jurgen Wolf. The use of third-party whois online service is not very good practice for the reason that You don't know how to use Your queries and queries statistics, as well as caching whois data. Better to get used to work directly with real whois servers without a third party or by using software running on Your computer that use the same whois servers
 
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ClearBit.com -- Outbound sales contact info

could you provide more details about this?
I gave a quick look, they seem like zoominfo more or less... am I correct?

what about their database size?

thanks in advance
 
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What a very insightful post! Thanks amillion for this free info.
 
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Thanks @James Iles ,

These are the tools I figured but I tried only SideKick, looks great (I don't know comparing to others),

Bommerang for Gmail
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...ail/mdanidgdpmkimeiiojknlnekblgmpdll?hl=en-US

Yesware Email Tracking
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...ing/gkjnkapjmjfpipfcccnjbjcbgdnahpjp?hl=en-US

Bananatag Email Tracking
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...ing/jpbnpbfpgjkblmejlgkfkekajajhjcid?hl=en-US

Contactmonkey
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...aly/dlppikdhbkdinhpfbneekdbjhgphknad?hl=en-US

Streak CRM for Gmail
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...ail/pnnfemgpilpdaojpnkjdgfgbnnjojfik?hl=en-US

MailTrack for Gmail & Inbox Email Tracking
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...box/ndnaehgpjlnokgebbaldlmgkapkpjkkb?hl=en-US

ToutApp for Chrome
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...ome/gllmkcahdekdbapmdfnffclacbpnicaj?hl=en-US

HubSpot Sales
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hubspot-sales/oiiaigjnkhngdbnoookogelabohpglmd?hl=en-US

The Top Inbox for Gmail
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...ail/ijhapcklhkanndjbdnhichfmolhiaekg?hl=en-US

Rapportive
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rapportive/hihakjfhbmlmjdnnhegiciffjplmdhin?hl=en-US

Hunter
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hunter/hgmhmanijnjhaffoampdlllchpolkdnj?hl=en-US

WiseStamp - WiseStamp Email Signatures - Create Your Professional Email ..
https://www.wisestamp.com/

Clearbit Connect
https://connect.clearbit.com/

MailJet
https://www.mailjet.com/

I'm still new to domain name industry, I like doing outbound marketing to find endusers, still didn't make my first sale but I was close to it few times (I'm greedy), still face 2 problems,
1) finding the CEO, Founder, Owner, Managing Director or whatever the position for the company, as it's not in the website or even when you do research in google, sometimes you cannot find it (may be because the domains I did marketing for are not suitable for big companies).
2) finding his email address.

I think ZoomInfo and Connect ClearBit will ease these problems,

Thanks to everyone for sharing invaluable information
 
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*Who.is often shows outdated information. I have switch to Whois.com. Use both to be sure..
 
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Instant Messaging
Skype and WeChat are my two instant messengers of choice. I stay in contact with investors and brokers all over the world with these two free services. On Skype, I have connections with most brokers, and some large investors that I check in with periodically.

WeChat is primarily to talk with contacts from China, but it's also used as a tool to access some international domaining groups. Communicating via WeChat is fairly simple, no matter whether there's a language barrier or not; the built in translation tools mean you can hold a conversation in any language.
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My other request, is there a Skype, WeChat, WhatsApp, Google HangOuts Groups that related to domaining do you can share so I can participate in (I know NamePros do same needs), for faster communication. Thanks
 
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using Hoovers or Bloomberg or Linkedin will get you the name of the CEO and Board Members and VP and other exec's but that won't get you their direct email addresses.

I remember researching this before but lost the file I had on it.

is there any info or website anywhere online that shows how to figure out any member of a corporation's email address?

I forgot the technique.

Anyone care to share?

could a data scraper like ScrapeBox work perhaps?
 
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I prefer twit as many of the seasoned domain name professionals tweet based on their vast experience in the domain name industry

Namebio. Com tweet each day the highest sale price

I prefer whois. Com which is great for getting your domain mentioned in
the big G

Namepros obviously as it's good to see the stories behind the sales and the negotiation techniques used etc

Dnjournal.com on a Thursday morning uk time to see the prices of the domains sold and the market places they sold at

I browse flippa.com domain auctions every so often etc
 
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@platey "I prefer whois. Com which is great for getting your domain mentioned in
the big G "

Can you please expand? what do you mean? how does whois help with the big G?

Thanks.
 
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nice thought eager to know more
 
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@platey "I prefer whois. Com which is great for getting your domain mentioned in
the big G "

Can you please expand? what do you mean? how does whois help with the big G?

Thanks.

Just like posts on np appear in the big G as do tweets as do content on websites etc I am almost sure that if you type your domain in to a whois search bar your domain appears in the big G as being content on the whois website

If you type your domain name in to the big G and scroll down the pages etc if you have typed your domain name in to a whois website it will appear in a Google listing and the listings in the big G that you didn't type your domain name in to show who else has typed your domain name in to a website and which website they typed it in to
 
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Just like posts on np appear in the big G as do tweets as do content on websites etc I am almost sure that if you type your domain in to a whois search bar your domain appears in the big G as being content on the whois website

If you type your domain name in to the big G and scroll down the pages etc if you have typed your domain name in to a whois website it will appear in a Google listing and the listings in the big G that you didn't type your domain name in to show who else has typed your domain name in to a website and which website they typed it in to
Wait wait wait say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???:xf.eek:

First time hearing this.

All this time I thought people or registries were front running my searches on whois and all this time people could do this on Google ?anyone?

Alright now. So just how does one Google what people been searching for on whois.i suspect complicated to do?
 
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ShortNames - Tracking the Short Domain Name Market

Cheers
Corey
 
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An essential tool for domainers

But it isn't free lol

Deliveroo
 
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estihost.com has a nice feature, when you go to the Menu Domains->Premium Domains, you can filter by price the premium domains. I found with 7$ premium domain names. Pretty cool!
 
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estihost.com has a nice feature, when you go to the Menu Domains->Premium Domains, you can filter by price the premium domains. I found with 7$ premium domain names. Pretty cool!

How do I generate a full list? It requires me to "enter at least one domain name". So how is it any different from another random registrar? Also, when I do enter a keyword (and it works), there is no sorting, just a plain unordered list. Pretty useless.
 
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How do I generate a full list? It requires me to "enter at least one domain name". So how is it any different from another random registrar? Also, when I do enter a keyword (and it works), there is no sorting, just a plain unordered list. Pretty useless.
The power of the tool is that you can find really cheap premium domains, by filtering the price. There are other tools like expireddomains.net but there you don't know if they are premium or not. At estihost.com you can find premium domains cheap. If you know other resources where you can do more than this please share. :)
 
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Hunter.io to find email addresses - free for 100 searches I think
RocketReach is also free for a limited number of searches

Im not saying but I am saying, you can create multiple accounts to increase searches.
 
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Hunter.io to find email addresses - free for 100 searches I think
RocketReach is also free for a limited number of searches

Im not saying but I am saying, you can create multiple accounts to increase searches.
hunter is 50 requestes nowadays
 
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