Accessing Domain Sites Easy — DomainersToolbar Makes

Simple toolbar makes accessing forums, sales, and news easier.

If you’re like me, you spend much of your day surfing to the various domain news sites, marketplaces such as Sedo and Afternic, and forums looking for good domain deals and heated discussions. It’s tedious.

Now there’s a simple toolbar that makes accessing updates from these sites easier. Called DomainersToolbar, it provides an intuitive interface directly in your Internet Explorer or Firefox browser. Just click on a heading, such as “News”, and then quickly scan news headlines from various sites and click through to read more. If a headline interests you then click on it to be taken to the article.

The toolbar was developed by domainer Patrick Miller. I originally hesitated to download the toolbar for a couple reasons. First, the DomainersToolbar.com domain had whois privacy protection, so I couldn’t tell who was behind it. Second, I’m always wary regarding downloading software and toolbars from firms and people I don’t know. These two problems have been addressed. Patrick removed whois privacy at my suggestion. Also, the toolbar is managed through a 3rd party service that counts as clients Major League Baseball, TechCrunch, Discovery TV, and others. So you don’t have to worry regarding Patrick stealing your data.

In theory, you can do much of what the toolbar does by using a RSS reader. But the toolbar makes it much easier. If you received all domain threads, news feeds, blogs, and marketplace listings through an RSS reader you would be overwhelmed. DomainersToolbar organizes all of this information in a simple manner, making it easy to quickly scan items to find what interests you.

The toolbar is free, so it’s worth taking it for a spin.

Above: accessing Reglike through DomainersToolbar.