There are a couple of extensions those searching for domain names can add to their Firefox browsers to help find domain names when browsing online. For example, youââ¬â¢re reading about the Elliot Spitzer use of prostitutes, and you think of a great domain name to register.
So if you have installed Domain Lookup or domainFinder, you can right mouse-click on any selected text, click on your preferred domain search, and voila, you go to a page to do a Whois search. For Domain Lookup it takes you to a Moniker page, and for domainFinder to a Dotster page.
Personally I thought domainFinder offered a quicker way to do a Whois search, simply because, for me anyway, it brought up the Whois results directly without entering the text again. But it only offers a limited number of Whois searches (.com, .net, .org, .co.uk, .info and .biz) whereas Domain Lookup offered a very wide range of gTLD and ccTLD searches.
To download Domain Lookup, go to www.qualitynonsense.com/148/domain-lookup-firefox-extension and to download domainFinder, go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1836.