The table below is the results of a detailed analysis of the major features
of several competing domain name search products.
| Software |
Domain
Name Pro
5.11 |
Reggie Pro
4.0 |
Domain
Questor
Pro 4.20 |
Available
Domains Pro
3.712 |
Domain Name
Analyzer
Pro 4.0 |
| Purchasing Information |
| Price (US$) |
$64.95 |
$49.95 |
$149.95 |
$74.50 |
$49.00 |
| Product upgrades |
Free |
??? |
6 mths |
Free |
12 mths |
| Free Trial |
30 Days |
30 Days |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| 30 Day Money Back Guarantee |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Feature Comparison Overview |
| Total features |
59 |
29 |
15 |
36 |
27 |
| Exclusive features |
20 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Best (or equal best) features |
58 |
14 |
6 |
20 |
10 |
| Domains List |
| Domains in domain
list |
543
Colored |
450 |
30 |
524
+30 invalid |
18
+4 invalid |
| Automatic updates |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Custom selection lists |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Manual domain setup |
No.
Uses
automatic
updates |
Yes
Limited |
No |
Yes |
Yes
Limited |
| Searches |
Direct
full domain names |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Simple
word combinations |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes
Difficult |
Yes |
No |
Word Terms
popular keywords |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Advanced
word combinations |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes
Difficult |
Yes
Limited |
| Pattern / Character combinations |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes
Basic |
Whois
details |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No
Export possible |
| Domain Name Generation |
| Automatic popular alternative
domain names |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Automatic thesaurus / Word
alternative Lexicon |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Net Speak™
alternative spelling (eg. basics / basix) |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Automatic acronyms |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Advanced word positioning |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes
Difficult |
Limited |
| Optional and mandatory words |
Yes |
Limited |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Checks minimum domain name
lengths required |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Configurable limit on the overall domain name
length |
Yes |
Limited |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Configurable limit on the number of words
to use in the domain name |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Use hyphens in domain names |
Yes |
Yes
Limited |
Yes
Limited |
Yes
Limited |
Yes
Limited |
| Extract domain names from
files and pasted text |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Dictionary with wildcard and sounds-like search |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| WHOIS Details Extracted |
| WHOIS details displayed |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| WHOIS details extracted |
Availability
Status
Registered
Expiry
Updated
Registrar
Nameserver |
Availability
Expiry
(limited) |
Availability
Organization
Updated By |
Availability
Expiry
Registrar |
Availability
Status
Expiry
Updated
Registrar
Nameservers
Whois Server |
| Predicted deletion (drop)
date |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Identify expiring domain names |
Yes |
Limited |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Link Popularity |
Link popularity search
Number of search engines
List of search engines |
Yes
11
AllTheWeb
AltaVista
Google
Inktomi
FAST
MSN
Lycos
Alexa
Yahoo Dir
DMOZ Dir
Alexa Rank |
Yes
1
Google |
No |
Yes
6
AllTheWeb
AltaVista
Google
Alexa
Yahoo Dir
DMOZ Dir |
No |
| Optimized (fast) searches |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Option to include links within the web site |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Option to check links without the leading www. |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Domain Name Results |
| Detailed domain name results |
Yes |
Limited |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Compact availability results |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Search engine search term popularity
ratings |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Web site competition ratings |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Domain Name Effectiveness IndexT |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Multiple domain name display fomats
(spaces or capitalized words) |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Filter / search results |
Filter |
No |
No |
Search |
Search
Name only |
| Sort results |
Yes
Multi-
column |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Copying, Printing and Exporting |
| Copy results |
All
Selected
Available
Registered |
All |
No |
All
Selected |
All
Selected
Available |
| Print and print preview |
Yes |
Basic
printing |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Configurable print settings |
Yes |
Basic
printing |
No |
Limited |
No |
| Export results |
Text,
CSV,
HTML |
RTF,
CSV,
HTML |
Text |
Text,
CSV |
CSV |
| Export expiry dates and domain name contact |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Miscellaneous Features |
| Search performance |
Very Fast |
Fast |
Slow |
Fast |
Fast |
| Configurable performance |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Pause and resume
search |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Schedule search
for later time |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Keep within query limits |
Yes
Advanced |
No |
No |
No |
Yes
Basic |
| Built-in product news |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Built-in domain name news |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Trademark search |
US
UK
EU |
No |
No |
US
UK |
US |
| Firewall and Proxy support |
Yes |
Yes |
Limited |
Limited |
No |
| Easy search process |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Browse to web sites of registered
domain names |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Click on available domain name
to go directly to registration web page |
Single click
100+
domains |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Displays search statistics |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Limited |
Limited |
| Limit the number of results |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Difficult |
| Custom word lists with save and
load |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Welcome screen with quick access
to tools and videos |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Context sensitive popup menus |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Popup hints |
Many |
Some |
Few |
Some |
Some |
| Product Help |
Detailed |
Fair |
Poor |
Good |
None |
| Other |
| Get IP address from DNS |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Multilingual domains |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Registered domain cache list for
some countries |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
