What powers DHG
Link data from three independent sources, traffic estimates, full archive history, live availability, registry facts and real registrar pricing. Domain Hunter Gatherer gathers all of it and puts it beside the name, so the decision is obvious instead of being a research project.
Read live from the systems that hold it, every time this page loads.
01 The DHG engine
The crawler, the availability checks and the proxy handling are all ours, written for domain research and nothing else. That is what makes DHG fast at the scale this work actually needs, and it is where more than a decade of development has gone.
The crawler
DHG reads the web directly rather than driving a browser or scraping rendered pages. That is why it is fast, and why it reaches outbound paths that other approaches simply never see. Every improvement since 2015 has gone into this one thing: finding domains worth having.
Availability engine
A working roster of routes for every TLD, using RDAP, WHOIS where it is offered, and registry-specific endpoints. When one route slows down, DHG uses another, so a long run keeps returning clean answers instead of stalling.
Proxy intelligence
A dedicated proxy workflow that assesses suitability and anonymity rather than treating every endpoint as interchangeable, so heavy research runs on connections you have actually verified.
Discovery routes
Start from a keyword, crawl a site you already rate, run a reverse hunt on a competitor backlink profile, or bring a list you gathered elsewhere. Each route reaches different names, and they all end in the same comparable shortlist.
02 On every candidate
Finding a domain is half the job. DHG brings link data from three independent sources, traffic estimates, the full archive record and live availability to every candidate, so you are comparing evidence rather than chasing it across six browser tabs.
DHG group
DomDetailer's own backlink index, built in-house. A layer of link data you will not find in any of the third-party tools, and the reason two domains with identical public metrics can look very different here.
Majestic
The established measure of how trustworthy the linking sites are, alongside raw link volume, plus referring domains, topical trust flow and the edu and gov breakdown.
Moz
A second, independent read on the same name, with MozRank, MozTrust and Spam Score, so you can spot where two respected sources disagree.
Semrush
Organic traffic estimates, global rank and the keyword count a domain ranks for, which turns a link profile into a commercial picture.
Internet Archive
Total snapshots, first and latest capture, and the activity pattern in between. The single most revealing check on what a domain really was.
Registry and registrar
Live availability from the registry route, plus what the name would cost at the registrars worth buying from, gathered on this site.
03 Included with DHG Pro
Pro is not a bigger version of the same thing. It adds three separate applications, each bringing data the others cannot: quality signals on demand, a prepared market of thirteen providers, and the full archive history of any site you are considering.
Quality on demand
Puts Moz, Majestic and the in-house Pretty backlink dataset onto a whole page of candidates at once. DHG Pro includes a credit allocation, so enriching a shortlist costs you nothing extra.
The market, already gathered
Thirteen marketplaces collected into one index, refreshed through the day, with every metric already attached to every row and a single quality score so one sort works across the lot.
See what it was
Rebuilds an archived site into a browsable local copy, pages and assets together, across multiple workers. The fastest way to understand what a domain actually did before you commit to it.
04 The reference layer
Two reference systems maintained on this site and free to use. They answer the questions that come immediately after you find a name: is this a good extension, and where do I buy it.
Every extension in the root, profiled.
Registry, root-zone, market and infrastructure data on every TLD, with tracked history so you can see which extensions are growing and which are not.
Where to actually buy the name.
Accreditation records, brand relationships and recorded pricing across extensions, so the moment you find a domain you already know who sells it and what it costs.
Straight from the source
None of this is scraped from a competitor or estimated by a model. Registry data comes from ICANN and IANA, link data from Majestic, Moz and our own index, archive history from the Internet Archive, and pricing from the registrars themselves. Every figure records where it came from and when it was taken.
All of it, one subscription
DHG Pro puts the discovery engine, three independent link and traffic sources, the full archive record, live availability and real registrar pricing into a single workflow, so the time you spend goes into choosing rather than collecting.