Instant Domain Search
With the help of AJAX, you can search domain names to see if they are taken or not in seconds. There are websites that provide this service. Here is couple of them.
1. PCNames.com
I just discovered this website through Google search. It provides instant domain search with .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .us extensions. It works properly. Unlike some other websites, it doesn’t crash your browser. What I like about this web site is that they provide bunch of other tools that can help you come up with a good domain name. If you are having problems finding a new name for your project that you want to start, this web site can certainly help. It has tools like listing all available three or four character domain names.
Bustaname is another site that provides instant domain search with .com, .net, .org extensions. You get a tool called “word combiner” which puts all of the words you type in together in all possible ways and checks if that combined name is available. It’s useful when you already have a specific word that you want to have in your domain, but that word is probably taken. So what you can do is that you can go to this site and add suffixes and prefixes to find a domain and still have that word you wanted to have.
Yet another site provides the same service with different purpose. You can check domain names with .com, .net, .org extensions. The neat part of the service they provide is that you can have the tool on your own website or on your google home page. Links are avaliable at the site. You can visit “/widget” dot com to get the HTML code to put it on your web site.
The part that is being discussed on a lot of blogs of this service is that whether these sites steal your domain name or not? Sites that provides this service are associated with popular hosting sites. Even though, they say that they don’t save your names in their database. You never know. So what I’d suggest is that you register your name right away. You can get up next morning and see your domain name registered by someone else.
Here is an example;
http://www.miketheinternetguy.com/blog/miscellaneous/dont-get-your-domain-name-stolen/