List Finder: Find Ready-Made Word Lists on the Web for Domain Names

A domain name search is only as good as the words you feed it. DNSLister already has hundreds of word lists, but sooner or later you need one we don't have: dog breeds, wine regions, Norse gods, hiking terms. Somebody has almost always made that list already, as a CSV or a text file sitting on a website. Finding it with an ordinary web search is slow, because the results are full of articles about the topic rather than the list itself.

List Finder on DNSLister builds the search for you. Pick a topic, and it writes a web search aimed at actual list files, ready to open in Google or our own search engine.

Quick answer

Open /finder, pick a topic or type a word, and look at the preview: the exact search List Finder will run. Press a search button to open it in a new tab. When you find a good list, download it and import it on your Lists page. The preview works without an account. The search buttons need a free one.

What it does

The searches List Finder writes are sometimes called "search dorks": ordinary web searches that use a few special words, like filetype:csv, to narrow the results. You don't need to know any of them. List Finder adds them for you and shows you the result, so you can learn as you go.

• CSV and TXT word lists. The search asks only for list files, not pages about the topic.
• Three ways to search. Google Search; Google AI (AI Mode), which gets a plain sentence asking for lists rather than a dork; and SearXNG, our own private search engine at search.dnslister.com.
• Cleaner results. Options to hide PDFs, reduce domain-for-sale listings and reduce password lists, which otherwise turn up in a lot of word-list searches.
• Naming styles. Optionally add style words to the search, so a topic search leans toward lists that suit brand names.
• Your own words. Add extra words, and choose whether they must match as an exact phrase.
• Your searches are kept. When you're signed in, My searches keeps your last 30, so you can rerun one later.

Standard, Advanced, Operator library and About

Two tabs at the very top switch between Web searches (List Finder) and Scan a website (Just the Website). Under them, the buttons at the top of List Finder take you between four pages:

• List Finder (the standard page) covers most needs: a topic, a few options, a search.
• List Finder Advanced adds more file types, more places to look, "Restrict to" chips that keep the search to particular sites, and extra filters. Use it when the standard search turns up too much noise, or too little.
• Operator library explains each special search word and what it does, with examples.
• About answers the common questions: what a search dork is, which engine to pick, and how to bring a list back.

When to use it

• You need a topic list we don't have. Search for it, import the best result, and use it like any other list.
• You want a bigger list than ours. Our curated lists are trimmed for naming. A raw list from the web is longer, and you can trim it yourself.
• You're naming in a specialist field. Hobby, scientific and trade lists (birds, minerals, sailing terms) are often published as plain files by the people who know the subject best.

List Finder or Just the Website?

They solve opposite problems:

• List Finder finds lists other people have already made about a topic.
• Just the Website makes a list for you from the words one website uses.

Use Just the Website when you have a site in mind (yours, a competitor's, an industry leader's). Use List Finder when you have a topic in mind. They work well together: scan a site with Just the Website, and each keyword on its list has a Lists link that opens List Finder with that word already chosen. Read more in Just the Website: turn any site into domain name keywords.

Honest limits

• List Finder writes the search. The results come from the search engine, so what you find depends on what is published.
• Lists from the web vary. Some are tidy, one word per line. Others need cleaning up before they make good domain names. Our importer takes CSV and TXT files.
• Check the licence of any list you plan to republish. Using a list privately to brainstorm names is usually fine.
• Google may ask you to prove you're human if you run many special searches in a row. If that happens, switch to SearXNG for a while.

FAQ

Do I need an account? Not to see the search List Finder builds. You need a free account to press the search buttons and to keep your search history.

Is a "search dork" anything shady? No. It's just a web search that uses the advanced search words every major engine supports. List Finder only looks for public list files.

Which engine should I pick? Start with Google Search. Try SearXNG for a second opinion, or Google AI if you'd rather ask in plain words.

How do I use a list I found? Download it, then import it on your Lists page. It then works in every DNSLister search and tool that takes a list.

Try it now: List Finder.