# Domain Name Search?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domain-name-search/42008>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 20, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domain-name-search/42008 "2000-11-20T18:57:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![toonerama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@toonerama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toonerama)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domain-name-search/42008/1 "2000-11-20T18:57:59Z")

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Is there any search tool to find web sites purely by domain name? For instance, if I want to find all sites that have “audio” in the name. Some kind of wildcard search, like ‘_audio_’ type thing?

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domain-name-search/42008/2 "2000-11-20T19:27:26Z")

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Yes. For example, if you’re searching on [http://www.ixquick.com](http://www.ixquick.com) you can narrow your search by fields. See the bottom box on [this ixquick search help page](http://ixquick.com/eng/power_search_techniques.html)

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**Author:** ![Meephead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b782af/32.png) [@Meephead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meephead)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domain-name-search/42008/3 "2000-11-20T20:55:09Z")

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[www.amnesi.com/dnssearch/](http://www.amnesi.com/dnssearch/)

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**Author:** ![toonerama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@toonerama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toonerama)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domain-name-search/42008/4 "2000-11-20T22:05:32Z")

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Thanks a lot for your help. Someone else also mentioned to me that using the Altavista advanced search, I can type ‘url:audio’, e.g. and that works too.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domain-name-search/42008/5 "2000-11-21T01:30:53Z")

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I think that in AltaVista, you actually want domain:audio . url: will return sites that have the string “audio” anywhere in the URL, including path or filenames.