I am constantly searching for new technology services online. I’m also an avid domainer – someone who buys, collects, and sells domains. Part of my research when I’m looking for an emerging tech service, is finding the best keywords to use for my queries, and to see if those keywords have been registered as domain names.

We all know that a lot of domain name real estate has already been bought up by domain name consolidators. It can be challenging to find an available domain name for your company or project. The thing is, there are still a lot of private domain holdings – people like me who register domains on the fly and either flip them quickly or let them expire before they get expensive.

What I want to create is a cloud-based software similar to RAGE Software’s Domainer that will let you search for domain name availability on all the major TLD extensions, and even some of the best ccTLD’s like 101domains does, record the relevant WHOIS entries, take a screenshot of the webpage that is up if there is one, and bookmark your queries for later.

This is easy to monetize. Lazy users will click through to buy a domain that the software finds available which will yield an affiliate spiff, or a user could be charged to maintain a record of all of their queries. The latter is ideal as it would provide a significant value to a domainer as I don’t believe there is any such software on the market.

The closest is DomainTools, which is more for competitive research and performance info. There’s some crossover there, but this tool would be more for a domainer to be able to gather intel and snatch up a domain when it comes out of a redemption period, or just be notified when it is available. Pool.com is probably the best known domain backordering service and I’ve had good success with them myself. A partnership with Pool to expedite backordering, and with a WHOIS service for intel, and access to software like 101’s for queries would make this service a great competitor to DomainTools and Name.com’s WHO.IS tool.

This would probably cost abou $5,000-$10,000 to develop. So there’s that. I think it would monetize very quickly, though.