The Domain Research Tool (a.k.a DRT) that I wrote about in January offers a big load of new features, that will improve your domain search experience

Therefore the new public release #22 is a good reason to sum up the new features… and play with them – Lots of cool new features…

• IDN Support: Domain Research Tool now supports international domain names (IDNs). This is required for *Umlaut-Domains and domains in foreign character sets (like Japanese) …

This means that you’ll be able to load and scan international domain names just as easily as you scan regular domains. All IDN conversion is done in the background so that you never have to worry about converting from UTF8 to punycode. DRT is the only tool to offer integrated IDN support and a bulk IDN converter.

• Domain Typo Generator: You can generate hundreds to thousands of typos from other domains and keyword phrases. Generate typos in 250 TLDs and quickly check them for availability and typein score. a great addition as this feature was missing initially (but the existing domain name generator tools were already quite extensive, so this makes it a 99,99% afte 98,88% functionality required

• TLD .SE Whois/availability checking now works

• Dmoz and Yahoo directory scanning for domains now available. you can scan domains for Yahoo/Dmoz directory listings. an obviously useful feature!

• the new TLDs .BE, .GR, .DK zone files were added.

• Referer spoofing – the user can now set referer in HTML header when performing availability checks

• new Word Combinator feature in the Domain name generator – this feature allows you to combine primary and secondary keywords for your domain name checks…

• you have the ability to scan just keywords for popularity in Google and then
  - the ability to convert keyword results to domains.

• monitor various domain changes such as nameservers, IPs, through the new domain portfolio manager ( like a workbook for your interesting domains )

Wow… what a load of features…

and remember you can still download a free trail of the Domain Research Tool DRT and the MarketingFan promotion price is still active… so you can still save over $50 when buying thru my link compared to the MSRP price.