Tips on selecting your perfect domain
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First, you will have to accept that the most obvious names – the 'beachfront properties' of cyberspace – are all already taken. Surprisingly, it is the case that all dictionary words havealready been claimed. That is because more and more web users have become clever enough to simply type a likely name into the web address field of their browser. As an example, someone looking for info about coffee, or wishing to buy coffee on-line would just enter coffee.com into the web address field. This gives a good result, and is faster than using google. The owners of the site, of course, get free and massive traffic to their web pages.
Generic names – like paints.com, forms.com, and so on may be open to offers by their owners, but be willing to spend hundreds, or millions of dollars. I assume you are not in this marketplace, which is ridiculously overpriced, but wish to buy a completely new, relevant name, which fits with your business or area for your freash web site.
In this case, there are many smart ways to proceed. Too look at them, I'll use an example. My theme for the new web site I want to create is collectibles. I do a fast check, and see that all the dot suffixes for the word collectibles itself are registered - .com, .net, info and so on.
One option is to add a relevant adjective, and make a two-word name. Things like small-collectibles.com, discount-collectibles or golden-collectibles.com may work for your site, and still give users a good indication of what your web site is about. Using tools like keyworddiscovery you can insert your keyword and find out what search phrases searchers are using when looking for the subject.
Actually doing this, words like antiques, vintage, gifts and so on are common words available to combine with 'collectibles', obviously if they respect the purpose and focus of the projected web site. Even MyCollectibles has a ring to it (think of myspace.com).
Sometimes, this method of discovering what people want will actually reveal a good idea for the subject of your new site.
On the other hand, if your business or idea has a geographical focus, you can combine that with the subject of your site – mystate-collectibles, cheap-mytown-collectibles or similar.
Or, a useful option is adding a one-letter prefix. In my case, this would give me iCollectibles or eCollectibles, or hyphenated versions, as a good set to look at. You could also use a given name in combination with the themeof your projected website, depending on how personal you would allow your site to be – robs-collectibles.com.
You could follow successful companies - buy a domain name with no meaning, and spend some time and money on its branding. Words like google, orbitz, expedia and netscape are examples of this. It may be hard to credit, but these were formerly words missing from any dictionary. Wouldn't it be good own those domains today?
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