Privacy policy
Best Domain Finder is a free domain search and price comparison tool run by Sam Morgan, an individual based in Virginia, USA ("we", "us"). This policy explains what happens to information when you use bestdomainfinder.com. There are no accounts, no payments, no ads, and no newsletter, so we hold very little about you.
The short version
- We do not ask for your name, address, or payment details, and we do not sell your information.
- Names you search are sent to our server, which asks three registrars for live prices.
- For most visitors, Google Analytics counts visits and may see the words searched. It is switched off for visitors in the EU, EEA, UK, and Switzerland, and for anyone who sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal.
- One provider link, NameSilo, is a referral link that may earn us a commission.
What we process
- Domain names and keywords you search. Your browser sends them to our server function, which runs on Cloudflare Pages. That function passes the names to the Porkbun, NameSilo, and Cloudflare Registrar APIs to get availability and prices. We do not keep a database of searches or link them to you. Cloudflare and the providers may keep ordinary server logs under their own policies. Your search also appears in the page address as
?q=, so it can show in your browser history, and in a link if you share it. - Technical data. Like any website, our hosting provider, Cloudflare, sees your IP address, browser type, and the pages you request, in order to deliver the site and protect it from abuse.
- Saved names. The "Saved" list lives only in your open page and disappears when you reload. We do not store it.
- Email. If you write to contact@bestdomainfinder.com, we receive your address and message and use them only to reply.
Analytics and cookies
We use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages are used. It sets two cookies, _ga and _ga_C6NTSQWK7X, which Google says last up to two years by default and which browsers cap at around 400 days. Google receives the pages you view, your browser and device type, the page you came from, your approximate location (derived from your IP address), and a random identifier. Because a search appears in the page address as ?q=, Google's automatic site-search measurement can also record the words you searched. We have turned off Google signals and advertising features, so this data is not used for ads. We keep event data for two months and user-level data for 14 months.
Analytics is not loaded for visitors in the EU, EEA, UK, or Switzerland, or for anyone whose browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal. We find your country from your connection using Cloudflare, and this check is not stored. Because those visitors never load Analytics, we do not show a cookie banner. If you are elsewhere and want to opt out, enable Global Privacy Control, install Google's browser opt-out add-on, or block cookies in your browser; the site works without them.
Cloudflare also provides privacy-friendly traffic statistics for the site that do not use cookies. If Cloudflare shows you a security check, it may set a cf_clearance cookie to remember that you passed it. That cookie is strictly for security.
Who receives information
- Cloudflare hosts and protects the site. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
- Porkbun, NameSilo, and Cloudflare Registrar receive the domain names being checked, through their APIs, from our server rather than from your browser.
- Google receives analytics data as described above. See Google's privacy policy.
- We do not sell personal information or share it for advertising, and we do not otherwise disclose it except to follow the law.
Referral and provider links
NameSilo links carry our referral code, so NameSilo can tell that you came from us, and we may earn a commission if you buy. See the affiliate disclosure. When you click any provider link, you leave this site and that provider's own terms and privacy policy apply. They may set their own cookies.
Your choices and rights
You can use the site without giving us anything beyond the names you search. Because we do not keep a searchable record of visitors, we usually cannot find data about a particular person, but you may ask us at contact@bestdomainfinder.com what we hold, or to correct or delete it, and we will answer within a reasonable time. Depending on where you live, such as California, Virginia, and other US states, or the UK and EU, you may have legal rights over your data, including access, correction, deletion, and objection. We do not sell personal data, do not use it for targeted advertising, and do not use it to make automated decisions about you. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
Security, retention, and transfers
The site is served over HTTPS. We keep no database of visitors; Analytics retention is described above, and email is kept as long as needed to deal with your message. We are in the United States, and Cloudflare and Google process data in the US and other countries.
Children
The site is not aimed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Changes and contact
If we change how the site handles information, we will update this page and its date. Questions or requests: contact@bestdomainfinder.com.