How to Find New Startup Projects in Newly Registered Domains
A new startup project leaves a public trace when its domain starts serving a website and has mail servers set up. Newly registered domain lists mix those live builds with names listed for sale or not in use. DomainKits NRD Search separates the two, shows how each project is set up, and keeps watching a sector through email alerts. The examples below come from a search for AI agent projects on .ai on 9 November 2026.
Separate live builds from domain inventory
NRD Search gives each newly registered domain a Status: For Sale, In Use or Other. In Use keeps domains with a live website, and MX: Yes keeps those with mail servers set up. With both applied, a search for agent on .ai went from 911 registrations to 162.
Two more filters refine the list. MX Host keeps domains whose mail runs through a given provider: entering google.com keeps projects with mail hosted by Google, such as fleetagentic.ai and agentdisco.ai. Exclude Keywords drops names that contain words from other industries, such as realty, estate, insurance or travel when searching agent.
What live newly registered domains reveal
Within a month of registration, domains in the Figure 1 list already carried product and service sites, media about the sector and forwards to other sites.
Products and services across verticals and developer tooling
Product and service sites made up the largest group, several of them still in early access, closed beta or a pilot:
- Vertical business agents: AI agents for dental practices (dentalagentic.ai), regulated industries (fleetagentic.ai), Shopify stores (tycoonagent.ai) and Google Ads accounts (agentppc.ai), the last two in early access.
- Infrastructure for the agent economy: Services that track how ChatGPT and Claude recommend a product (agentdisco.ai), judge disputes between AI agents (agentreferee.ai) and run a bounty marketplace where agents compete for tasks (agentizable.ai).
- Non-English and regional projects: The English keyword also found product sites in Vietnamese (dongagent.ai), Portuguese (ozagent.ai, noonagent.ai), Italian (irideagent.ai) and Turkish (finestagent.ai).
Brand forwards and ecosystem media
- New product lines and multi-domain launches: The target's registration date shows whether a forward leads to an older site or one just as new: agentconversion.ai forwards to a new product page on enrichlabs.ai (registered in 2024) and agentblitz.ai to agentblitz.com (2021), while brancoagent.ai forwards to brancoagent.com (registered in the same second) and perseiagent.ai to djgagent.ai (also in the list).
- Directories, benchmarks and newsletters: A leaderboard for coding agents (agentpaddock.ai), a site that checks AI agent revenue claims (agentsofprofit.ai), tested tool directories (agenttested.ai, pickmyagent.ai) and weekly newsletters (theagentledger.ai, agentsnacks.ai).
Read a project's setup in the result row and Check panel
Each result row lists the domain's registration date and gives a Cross-TLD count showing how many extensions hold that exact string. The same-name forwards show it: agentblitz.ai has Cross-TLD: 5 and brancoagent.ai Cross-TLD: 2, and a TLD search for agentblitz lists it across .com, .net, .app, .dev and .ai.
Clicking Check opens the domain's WHOIS and DNS records without leaving the results, with buttons including Same Nameservers and Cross-TLD Check. For dentalagentic.ai, the panel shows its registration through Hostinger, with web hosting (AS47583) and mail servers (mx1.hostinger.com, mx2.hostinger.com) at Hostinger. For a broader framework on interpreting registration records, see Reading Registration Intent in Newly Registered Domains.
Turn the search into an ongoing startup radar
Clicking Add email alert above the results saves the keyword in Keyword Monitor, which emails newly registered domains containing it. The alert can be narrowed by TLD, length, position and character type, for example to .ai names containing agent. Because NRD Search keeps checking each domain's status for 60 days, rerunning the search with In Use and MX: Yes shows which of those names have since put up a live website and mail.
To follow one project, such as dentalagentic.ai, the Add dentalagentic.ai to Monitoring button in its Check panel adds the domain to Domain Monitor. Domain Monitor emails when the domain's WHOIS, mail servers or certificates change, for example when a newly issued certificate names a new hostname under the domain.
Summary
| What you want to uncover | How to do it in DomainKits |
|---|---|
| Startups that have already deployed a site and mail | NRD Search with Status: In Use and MX: Yes (or MX Host) |
| Projects that hold the same name in other extensions | Cross-TLD count in each row and Cross-TLD Check |
| Hosting stack, mail provider and other domains on the same nameservers | Inline Check panel and Same Nameservers |
| Changes on a project after you find it | Add to Monitoring in the Check panel (Domain Monitor) |
| Next wave of registrations in your sector | Add email alert in NRD Search (Keyword Monitor) |
- Tool results: DomainKits NRD Search on 9 November 2026. Counts are as shown on that date and change as new registrations are indexed and site status changes.
- The 65 homepages in the example were opened in a browser on 9 November 2026. Registration dates of the named domains were checked against registry records.
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