A few weeks ago I created a data feed in the same vein as Paul Kedrosky’s (now defunct) BubbleWire. The Coming Soon feed lists “interesting” domain names that will soon expire. For my purposes, “interesting” means that the domain name is a common english word. Here’s the FeedBurner link:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/gurge/coming_soon

For the technically proficient among you, here’s how Coming Soon is generated:

1. Each night a Ruby script fires up on my linux box.
2. The script fetches the list of expiring domains from pool.com. You can find the link on their home page.
3. Each domain is given a quality ranking.
4. For the time being I’m only interested in domains with QUALITY=1, which means that the domain is in the 3esl list.
5. The interesting domains are placed in a db.
6. The RSS feed is generated and uploaded to gurge.com, where it gets picked up by feedburner.

I have several other quality rankings:

• is the domain an uncommon word?
• is the domain two common words put together?
• is the domain two uncommon words put togehter?
• etc.

I found that the other lists are way too long to be useful for casual domain watchers like me.