About Domains Open

Domains Open finds the good .com names in the daily list of expiring domains and tells you when they become free to register.

How it works

1. Every day we take the public list of .com names about to be deleted — around 100,000 of them.
2. We score every name on the name itself: length, whether it reads as real words, how it sounds, how it would work as a brand. A score measures the name, not a price.
3. We ask the Verisign registry, the official source for .com, whether each good name is still unregistered. That is what “available now” means here.
4. Watch a name and we monitor the registry for it, then alert you the moment it opens, with links to register it.

What it never does

Domains Open never registers, buys or bids on a domain, and never holds registrar logins or payment details. You register names yourself, at any registrar you like. Some registrar links are affiliate links; they never change the price you pay.

Where the data comes from

• The public daily list of .com names scheduled for deletion.
• Verisign’s RDAP service, for whether a name is registered right now.
• The Internet Archive, for whether a name ever ran a real website.
• The Tranco list of popular sites, to flag names too close to an existing brand.

Everything shown is measured from these sources. Where something cannot be measured — a name’s market value, say — we do not show a number for it.

How expired .com domains become available explains the timeline and the daily drop time in detail.

Who built it

Domains Open is built by Kanyon Studio, a photography, video and design studio in San Diego.