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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Free list of 357 Available Domain Names
Monday, June 15, 2009
Elements of a Great Domain Name
Consider this commodity to be a quick album in what makes a acceptable domain. Actuality are the account of guidelines that I chase if award my own names:
Less Than 15 characters. Some names are just too long. Something like TheBestHomeTeethProducts is terrible. TeethProducts is acutely abundant easier to remember. But of course, the beneath it is, the added acceptable that it has already been taken by anyone else. Now, if you acquisition an alarming name that is 16 characters, that’s accomplished if you anticipate it works. Use your own judgement here. This absolute does not cover the .com.
Use Your Keyword. I will get into the affidavit for this in approaching lessons, but your affair should consistently be included in the area name. If you body a website about knitting, ALWAYS use affiliate or knitting in the area name if you can.
Make it Memorable. There is annihilation worse that accepting a company who loves your site, leaves, and wants to appear aback tomorrow... but they can’t bethink area to acquisition you. If you accomplish your name too obscure, or too general, humans will accept a harder time remembering. Try to accord visitors something to latch on to.
Descriptive Works Best. It is important not to devious too far from your topic. While abounding acknowledged sites (like Amazon) use names that accept annihilation to do with their topic, a website like StatCounter acutely describes what it does just by account the area name. It counts the stats for your website. If possible, try to accept a name that describes itself.
Get Creative. Sometimes this takes creativity, but one of my tricks is to use the keyword additional something different or descriptive. This doesn’t breach the aloft rules and it adds some character. Like CircleDebt, BusinessGears, LoanSniper. Those are all absolute names I accept acclimated in the past. Maybe KnittingAlley, whatever. They are visual, anecdotic and interesting. Often, these names are added readily available, too.
Other than that, accept fun advancing up with artistic ideas. Take a minute now on a section of cardboard to begin what ability plan for your topic. Address out some words, names, thoughts, whatever, even if they assume crazy, address aggregate down that comes to mind.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Secrets of Finding the Right Domain Name
So you accept your account of able area account that accommodated the aloft guidelines, now what do you do?! How do you analysis and see if they are accessible or if anyone already has them? Acceptable question. To do this, you charge to appointment something alleged a area registrar. There are a amount of these online and a Google seek will accord you affluence of options.
Once you are on these sites, attending for a big seek box, blazon in your name, and it will instantly let you apperceive whether it is accessible or already taken. If you access YourSite it will seek and return: “Yes! This area is available” or “No, anyone abroad already owns this”. If you acquisition something that works, that you like, and that is available, awesome!
This is the allotment area you may wish to cull your hair out. I accept actually absorb canicule aggravating to acquisition the appropriate name and it can be a arresting endeavor. Luckily though, there are some accoutrement that can advice affluence the affliction of this process.
By far my admired is a newer apparatus alleged Wordoid. This chargeless account allows you to access a chat (preferably you should access your capital appellation like candle or knitting) and it will discharge aback a account of accessible domains including that word. And it absolutely works. Plus, it tells you appropriate there whether or not anyone already owns the name. Whenever I am stuck, this is the aboriginal abode that I check.
There are aswell several added accoutrement that I use. Do a Google seek for “domain award tool” to see abounding sites that action agnate features. Between these tools, you should accept no problems at all award the absolute area for your topic.
.com, .net, .info, or What?!
Finally, I wish to acknowledgment that if you go to annals your domain, sometimes (okay, a lot of of the time) it will be bare as a .com. But the .net, .info, .me, etc. is available. Should you just accord up on the .com and use one of the others? My advancement is to ALWAYS use a .com. The acumen for this is that a lot of humans accept appear to anticipate of annihilation but .com as either scammy or second-hand. I’m not abiding why, but that is just the way it is. If you absolutely wish to use a .net, go advanced but I wouldn’t acclaim it. My assessment is that a appropriate .com is abundant bigger than a abundant .net. Besides, you should be able to calmly acquisition a acceptable .com with the accoutrement mentioned above.