radix - 7:21 pm on Jun 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

My practice to figure out whether a domain name has been registered or not is to use a whois service showing results with different tld-s for the searched domain. This way when I want to register widget.net I'd search for widget.com and the results would show if it's available in its .com .net .org .info .biz versions.