I’m a big fan of Domain Tools for researching domain name information including whois history, name server history, related names, and just about anything else you can imagine. Often times, I’ll simply type out the full address whois.domaintools.com/example.com rather than actually going to the domain name and clicking a toolbar add-on. I navigate directly because I don’t like popups from parking pages and don’t want to possibly alert the owner that I have visited their site.
Lately, I’ve found myself using Google Chrome as my main web browser because it’s just blazing fast. However, I didn’t like how the location bar would fill in previous requests that I had to backspace over before entering the domain I wanted to research.
Well here’s an easy solution to quick Domain Tools lookups with Google Chrome
Step 1 – Go to Settings, find Default Search and click on ‘Manage’
Step 2 – Click the + sign to add a new search engine
Step 3 – Type “dt example.com” and hit enter – you will be taken directly to Domain Tools for the specified domain
