Domain Owl

Google is often regarded as the mountain domainers aspire to ascend. But a secret few domainers realize anymore is what a valuable research tool Google still is, especially for domainers. Finding new avenues to promote a domain can start by reviewing where the domain link already exists, and what other information is attached to that link.

Got a domain? Try Googling it.  This is pure web research that cuts to the heart of any domain. The resulting cache of sites and listings for the domain name should provide ample ideas for linking, bookmarking sites, and publicizing other names in  the webmaster’s domain portfolio. Yes, it’s as old-school as it gets, but try it. Domain research can still yield new ideas and concepts. Google your domain. See where that query leads.

I Googled Domainowl.com and got a result at something called RankArea.com. The entire database record for my domain name was blank, but there was a sweet index of compiled DomainOwl Tweets and posts.  Maybe they need a prodding via email to complete this listing? This makes a nice summary page in a broad prose format should I ever need one. RankArea could be a valuable link and a reference url. I bookmarked it.

I Googled DomainOwl and got a neat result that landed me somewhere called ServerSiders.com. They had a lot of information about the technical side of DomainOwl, and I made a note to keep this site bookmarked as a domainer toolbox reference url. I want to check out how my other domains are reported there. Here is the capsule summary they had online:

The site is using the Apache web server. The programming language used on the site is PHP and the main language used for the site’s textual content is English. The site was launched on Friday, April 9, 2010. Domainowl is using the javascript libraries jQuery, pngfix, WordPress Content and Wp-includes. The server that hosts domainowl.com is located in Wayne, United States. The server is located on the 1&1 Internet AG network. Domainowl.com is using Google Adsense for monetization. Domainowlcom is published using the WordPress blog software, which is written in the PHP programming language and uses a MySQL database to store its data.

By using Google to suss out likely sites using my domain, I also discovered more about the OWL ontology and vectors of owl based clipart. This is an improtant source of graphics for the domain webmaster hat I wear. When can you have enough owl based clipart? Answer: Never. Into the bookmark cache that link goes.

I also found out that OWL was a technical term of code used to format handled objects. I am not sure exactly what it means but having large amounts of resident text online in HTML that connect the word “domain” to “owl” can’t hurt. This entry goes into my tickler file for rainy day research. Thus the bookmark cache is growing for marketing related sites and ideas to market the DomainOwl stable of domain originated products and services.

Next top result was something called Listorious. I found it fascinating that there was a indexed entry of all current “echoes’ of the DomainOwl posts. Clearly you could scan Listorious and see where your posts are hitting online at one site, without even logging into your blog. There was differently structured entry for DomainOwl at Listorious:

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