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The first version of the DomDB API has been released.

The API currently supports a single domain lookup that returns current prices, price histories, and metadata.

An overview of the API is available here, and documentation is available here.

New and existing users have access to the API for the entirety of their free trial.

The most recent updates, new features, and bug fixes:

• Bug fix: "Make Offer" domains were sometimes not displaying in the paginated search results when sorting by "Cheapest Price"
• Bug fix: Domain watch minimum Price Drop amount was not always being respected
• Bug fix: vastly faster searches due to database upgrade and improved indexing
• New: added aftermarket listings support for new TLDs: .fast, .spot, .lot, .free
• New: Dynadot User listings is now supported by the Domain Watch feature

Announcing the new Domain Watch feature: get notified when specific domain names are listed on aftermarkets and/or their price drops.

Seven major "Buy It Now" aftermarkets are currently supported, with more coming soon. The notifications are not real-time, but close: you will usually be notified within 1 hour of domain listing updates.

New users can watch up to 3 domains for free for 60 days. No credit card or commitment required.

Gname's "Buy It Now" domain inventory has been added to DomDB. Domain prices and availability are updated daily, and new domains are added hourly.

A new syllable pattern filter has been added to the search interface:

This new filter allows users to find domain names with specific character arrangements, such as consonant-vowel (CV), consonant-vowel-vowel (CVV), or consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel (CVCV).

The selectable syllable characters are currently Consonant (C) for the characters (b,c,d,f,g,h,…,x,z) and vowel (V) for the characters Vowel (a,e,i,o,u,y).

A new bulk keyword search has been added to the main search interface:

You can now search up to 50 search terms at once. Simply enter any keywords or domain names into the "Bulk Search" input box, one per line:

The results will include all domain names that match any of the entered search terms, with respect to any other selected filters.

Modifying your bulk search can be done by clicking the "X search terms" button:

New and improved filters have been added to search:

• No hyphens
• No numbers
• No IDNs

The TLD/Extensions picker has been vastly improved with quick select checkboxes for popular TLDs, and an autocomplete multiselect:

Also, you can now browse domains by the biggest price drops in the last 24 hours:

• Biggest dollar amount price drops
• Biggest percentage amount price drops

The following "Buy it Now" aftermarket inventories have been integrated with DomDB:

• Namecheap
• Sedo
• Porkbun

Additionally, significant speed improvements have been made to the domain search functionality. Most "Starts with/Contains" searches are now over 100x faster.

Bug fixes and updates released today:

• Registration price history is now tracked for unregistered, premium domains.
• Improved search performance when deselecting filters.

"Buy It Now" price histories are now tracked for aftermarket domain names. Price change events and aftermarket listings/delistings are displayed in a large chart on domain detail pages (for instance, 10.org):

Domain price histories are currently only available for domains listed on Afternic, dating back to October 2024. However, DomDB will soon track price histories for unregistered, premium domains, as well as a multitude of other domain aftermarkets.

Bug fixes and updates for the mainlist/search released today:

• search now supports punycode encoded domains, example: xn--s-9ga.co
• fixed slowness with "Reset Filters" button
• fixed rendering of pagination buttons on iOS, chrome mobile
• fixed misaligned domain name fixed column with the rest of the table on smaller devices/viewports
• added "Snap to Table" button
• by default, size the table to fit in the entire viewport, not just the visible page portion when initially loaded
• fixed dropdown menu style in darkmode

Bug fixes and updates for the mainlist/search released today:

• fixed repositioning of pagination buttons when browser window is resized
• set crawlable links on pagination buttons for bots
• upgrade to jQuery v3.7.1

Bug fixes and updates for the mainlist/search released today:

• fixed slow loading when returning to page 0
• fixed data missing from "Label is Word" column
• fixed incorrect sorting and data missing from "Cheapest Price" column for some aftermarket domains
• show "Make offer" for BIN aftermarket domains without a "Buy It Now" price

DomDB now includes Afternic's entire domain inventory (over 18 million new domains). All Afternic listings on DomDB are updated and synchronized on a daily basis.

Work is currently underway to add Sedo's inventory, so stay tuned.

The wee.domains website has been rebranded to DomDB! This name change better suits the upcoming developments to include aftermarket domain listings.

The plan is to aggregate as many aftermarket domain listings as possible into a single searchable database. This will enable users to shop for domains by text, domain length, price, and many other metrics for all domain names that are available for purchase.

Domains on the mainlist can now be filtered by label character count:

Domains on the mainlist can now be filtered by labels that are a word in a particular language:

Additionally, the most popular 25,000 english words are currently being added to DomDB database for the 200 most popular domain extensions. This means DomDB will now track over 5 million additional domains whose labels are a single english word.

The Godaddy domains/available API is very inaccurate and inconsistent for many premium domains.

For example, the domain pro.info is often returned as unavailable (it's actually available and costs about $3k USD depending on registrar).

Godaddy customer support seems aware of this issue and... that's just how it is.

Domains on the mainlist can now be filtered by the total number of characters they contain (label and extension combined).

For instance, the domain mmu.click is considered to contain 8 total characters, and the domain 🦄.to is considered to contain 3 total characters. Please keep in mind that dots are not counted.

Use the new slider in the sidebar to select minimum/maximum character count range to find domains with the length you're interested in.

The website interface can now be changed to "dark mode": a primarily black visual theme that is far less bright. This setting can be enabled via the toggle in the upper-right hand corner of any page on the website.

The UI theme setting will persist across visits if your browser has cookies enabled.

I'm pleased to announce that development of DomDB has a renewed focus.

In the last few months, the following new features and improvements have been added to the website:

• Improved data: pricing and availability data has been updated to be more accurate.
• Mainlist search: you can now find domain names by matching characters at the beginning of the domain, at the end, exact matching, and contains any matching characters:

  

• Mainlist performance: searching and filtering domains is now up to 30x faster.
• New Extensions page: you can now easily browse available domain names by via a big list of all domain extensions/TLDs.
• The DomDB x.com/twitter account has finally been unsuspended after four years. Note to self: never sign up for a twitter account with browser fingerprinting protection enabled.
• Bug fixes:
  • Newsletter signup fixed
  • Mainlist » Copy Domains button fixed

There are many new features currently in the works as well: dark/light UI mode, new domain ranking metrics, content translations, and a bulk domain availability checker. Thank you for your patience and please stay tuned.