What's New in DNSLister for October 2026: Word Pairs, Faster Lookups, and a Smarter Quick Lookup

DNSLister ships small improvements almost every day. This post rounds up October's, the ones that change how a domain search feels. Missed earlier months? See August and September.

Word Pairs: about 4,000 two-word ideas

Two short words are still one of the best ways to find a brandable .com that's free. Word Pairs gives you 30 themes, such as Tech x Nature, Colors x Gems, Music x Food and Space x Everyday, with about 4,000 ready-made pairs between them.

• Pick a theme on the left. Each one shows how many pairs it holds.
• Shuffle for a fresh page of 15.
• Click the pencil on any pair to swap either word for another from the same side of the theme, flip the order, or reset it.
• Each side links to the matching word lists, so when a theme clicks you can run a full search on it.

Lookups start sooner

Big searches used to wait sometimes before the first availability check began, up to a minute and occasionally much longer, while other workers sat idle. Now any free worker picks up a waiting search after 15 seconds. Most searches show their first results noticeably sooner.

A Visit button for taken domains

When a name is taken, the next question is usually "taken by what?" Taken rows in your results, and taken names in Quick Lookup, now have a Visit button that opens the site in a new tab. You can see right away whether it's a live business, a parked page, or nothing at all.

Quick Lookup understands a bare word

Type pizzahub with no ending into Quick Lookup and it checks pizzahub.com, with a pointer to TLD Sweep if you want to check other endings too.

Clearer results

• A search with many endings can show its "lookups per 5 minutes" chart as one combined chart instead of one per ending.
• A fully-taken name used to show a Domain Score of 0, which only tells you nothing is available. It now shows a "what if?" link with the score that name would have if it were free.
• Searches started from a tool are named after the word you used, e.g. "Character Swap: bingobandana", so they're easy to find in your search history.

Sign up without losing your search

If you build a search in the Search Builder before you have an account, your choices (search type, word lists, endings) now carry through sign-up. You land back on the same filled-in form, ready to run.

Tell us what to build next

Most of these came from people using DNSLister and saying what got in their way. If something slows you down, send us a note. We read every one.