Check if your Domain is available If you already have your own Domain Name and only need to transfer it, all you need to do is to make the changes with InterNIC, using their forms. But if you want your own name, you must reserve it, making sure it hasn't been already taken by somebody else. To check if the name you want to use is still available, put it in the text box field below (without any www. or anything like that) and hit the "Search" button. This form uses InterNIC's "whois" database and only has "second level" domain information, the first level or "top domain" names can be com, org, net or several others, less often use by the public. For example, a search on the domain name "business" under the top domain "com" would be done by entering it this way: business.com (without the www of www.business.com) Search the database of registered domain names using the WHOIS tool: