Previously registered domains

[crabfoot]

I am a newbie, and I have some ideas for names which may be useful.

What I want to know is if the names I have picked have been previously used, dropped and not revived. Is there any way to find this info, or do I have to keep saving the dropped name list until I have my own database?

 

[golddiggerguy]

Try this web.archive.org to see if it helps you at all.

 

[Systreg]

Hi CrabFoot, welcome to Acorn,

You could paste the domain urls in to the box on www.archive.org to see if it has any history of being used previously.

[edit]

Beaten by Golddiggerguy.

 

[crabfoot]

thanks for that - any other ideas?

I have tried that, but the names are insufficiently important to have been picked up by the machine - but if my theory works, I need names that were previously used.

 

[devolution]

you can always try a search like this in Google and other search engines:

"domain.co.uk"

(with the quotes)

 

[crabfoot]

Thanks - that does work for the "recently dead".

 

[Skinner]

To see the recently dead you need a drop list, which many people sell and some give away, then you need to search to see if they was listed on all the major engines.