14 DAY TRIAL // Finding a connection between a certain location and a domain name is the task central to GeoDomainMap. Offered by GoDaddy, GeoDomainMap is a Cloud-based application designed to help customers discover, explore and buy domain names that are associated with certain locations in North America. This just in case you would be looking to start a website dubbed LocustCornerSoftpedia for example. Users that navigate to the new web app from GoDaddy will notice immediately that GeoDomainMap is powered by Bing Maps, Microsoft’s mapping, search and location platform. Users can search for a specific location and then refine their query results by introducing additional elements, namely keywords, in order to create a complete domain name.
“The GeoDomainMap provides a map-based interface for exploring available domain names with location information included in the name,” explained Chris Pendleton, the Bing Maps Technical Evangelist for Microsoft.”
Fact is that, by bridging their database of domain names with Bing Maps, GoDaddy is providing users with an innovative way to search for domain name availability. Of course similar functionality is built into the vendor’s website, offering suggestions for each domain name search. However, the GeoDomainMap web application is much more fun to use, especially because of the visual navigation capabilities enabled by the presence of the map.
“The GeoDomainMap takes your location input and finds nearby neighborhoods. Then, it takes your keywords and appends your keywords, sans white space, and creates a domain name. It then checks the GoDaddy database of available domain names and returns those that are available. Each of the domain names are associated with a neighborhood, and thus a pair of latitude/longitude coordinates so what better way to display them than on a Bing Map?! Hover over the list and the popups will show on the map where the location within the domain is found. From the result list and the popup you can purchase the domain or add it to your wishlist,” Pendleton added.