Search engine lets you hunt deleted domains

July 11th, 2002
By The Inquirer

Grab intel*.com if you dare

With the DOT.COM bubble well and truly punctured has come a new search facility that helps you find sites that people once thought would be worth a billion but are now deleted.

The site, at whoisreport.com, lets you enter strings and search for deleted domain names which you can now pick up for a song, if a song is worth a dollar or two more.

The site includes features like anchoring searches left and right, using multiple keywords, wild cards, and getting rid of numbers and hyphens.

Do a search on Intel, f'rinstance, getting rid of the numebrs and anchoring it to the left, and you too could own intel-amd.com, intel-apple.com, intel-capital, intel-city, inteladapt, intelaffiliate, intelanalysis, inteldistributors, inteldot, inteldream and a heap of others.

But god help you if you start trading using any of your new domains or you might garner the wrath of La Intella, we'd humbly suggest.

Originally posted at http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4376