Duke of URL?

Surfing through the ‘sphere, I ran across a post on the tucowsblog pointing to a new little service called, punnily, “The Duke or URL.”

Aside from the fact that I think the name is fantastic, the service itself is pretty cool. In today’s crowded internet, it’s really hard to find a good URL that hasn’t been taken and squatted (or, less often, used).

I’ve run into this problem a number of times: I have a great idea, and no good URL. The Duke of URL takes a name or phrase, and an address type (.com, .net, etc…) and then searches through the available domain names for some clever combination of the ideas to give you a usable URL.

I went over and tried it out myself. The site was a bit slow when I looked at it, but the recommendations were surprisingly good. Cool toy!