Domain Lookup Firefox Addon
I received an email today from Richard Kershaw, developer of a new Domain Lookup Firefox Extension. I installed the addon immediately and it works great. I can see myself using this daily for various WHOIS lookups.
What Does it Do?
Domain Lookup lets you perform one click domain searches at your registrar of choice using the selected (highlighted) text in your browser window.
An Example WHOIS Lookup
Simple and Easy to use: select the text for your domain search and hit the keyboard shortcut (CTRL + SHIFT + D). Or, you can right click for the contextual menu and hit “Domain Lookup for…”.
Text will be normalized, spaces and illegal characters removed.
Secure and Flexible
The Domain Lookup Firefox Addon does not log your domain searches. Your domain data is only used to trigger a WHOIS lookup at your domain registrar of choice.
You can choose from a wide variety of popular domain name registrars such as Moniker and GoDaddy to perform your WHOIS lookups.
Thanks for letting me know about the Domain Lookup Firefox addon Richard! I am definitely a big Firefox enthusiast and supporter. For those of you who have not been reading DotSauce for very long here is a listing of articles related to Firefox add ons, extensions, and tools.
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If you know of any other great Firefox addons to help web developers and domainers, please post a comment below. I would love to hear what you find useful for everyday tasks and domain research.
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March 12th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
That’s a nice one. I’m a big fan of keyboard shortcuts myself. We developed a couple bookmarklets/browser buttons a few months ago which act in a similar manner. You can check them out at http://name.com/tools.php The WhoZap button will show you Whois information from Who.is We also have the RegZap option which will display the availability of the most popular extensions at Name.com. This is a sweet little option if you’re a domainer prone to keeping credit your Name.com account as it makes registering names supah fast!
March 12th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Interesting tool, stumbled it for you :).
March 12th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
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March 14th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Hmm, great…i’ll try it.
i love firefox, but i got some troubles using too much add-ons :S
March 15th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Great Post. Thanks for the info. Downloaded the addon and its works just as you described. Stumbled ya..
March 15th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Sounds like a great add-on but I’m having the same problem as Hiro. I get memory leaks sometimes that force me to restart Firefox. I’ll try this one and hope it works.
March 18th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Firefox has improved tremendously.Its really a users delight to use Firefox.And adding something or other new, giv lots of advantageous to its users.
March 19th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Looks like a great tool for Firefox, going to try it out right now. Post bookmarked!
-JP
March 19th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I don’t use firefox but this add on sounds great.
Do you think I should use firefox?
March 24th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
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