When people are trying to come up with a domain name, they may run across names that have already been taken. They usually jump to the conclusion that the best domain names are already in use. The Internet is so vast so that statement isn’t true. You can still think of alluring, unique domain names that will catch a person’s attention. Listed below are five tactics you can use to get your next domain name.
- Tactic 1 – Focus on End Results
Sometimes you can come up with a unique name by just thinking of the projected end result for your visitor. Think about what kind of experience they will have at the end of any transaction. From there, you can give your domain name a bit of uniqueness.
- Tactic 2 – Make Use of Puns
Put together a list of keywords that describe the kind of site you are creating. Afterward, read each one aloud. Then put each keyword together with another and see if it sounds good. There are not many kinds of these sites but they do work to catch a person’s attention. One such example of a site is Sitesfaction.
- Tactic 3 – Utilize The Slang
Slang on the World Wide Web can be used quite wisely as a domain name. It’s important you use your imagination and come up with a list of slang words that could possibly be used as a domain name. For instance, if you have a toy store you want to open online, you can use BoyOhBoyToys.com. A name like this plays on slang and let’s people know who you are. Make sure that any name you choose sounds good to the ear.
- Tactic 4 – Utilize Symbolisms
If you are on a certain genre, utilize that to come up with your domain name. For instance, you have horror books or creating an online community horror game, you can come up with all kinds of names that play off that genre symbolism.
- Tactic 5 – Use Real Words Differently
Try to think of real words and come up with another way to write them. For instance, Google is actually googol, which means the number one when followed by 100 zeroes. If you need help, you can always ask a kid or two what they think would do good for a domain site as they often can think of strange and unique domain names without even realizing it. This is how googol came about: Mathematician Edward Kasner’s nine-year-old nephew termed googol.
Legal panel advises to think twice before shifting your domain names offshore at DOMAINfesh Global.
In Los Angeles, at DOMAINfesh Global, a team of lawyers advised that moving domain names to offshore providers or registrars and forming your own domain company outside of the US be as profitable as it seems. In fact, Derek Newman said that you may hurt yourself more by setting up offshore projects to provide and hold domain names.
Newman advised that comanies and often judges, think that you are trying to hide some thing if you set up your offshore companies to hold your own domain names. This applies even to shifting your domain names to an offshore domain registrar.
Other panel lawyers agreed and said that even if your domain names are outside in an offshore registrar company or your own offshore company it does not mean that you are outside of the US jurisdiction.
Here are some points to ponder and think about:
1. Is your webhost or server based in U.S.?
2. Does your domain name parking provider have a presence in United States.?
3. If your domain parking corporation is outside United States, does it use a US based ad feed such as Yahoo or Google?
The Domain Industry’s News by Andrew Allemann
Hal Bailey from Google talks about domain parking at DOMAINfest.
In a somewhat awkward session, Hal Bailey from Google Adsense for Domains talks about the future of domain channel today at Los Angeles at DOMAINfest Global.
The best good news for all domainers is that Hal Bailey said that Google is committed to the domain channel and it believes that it adds value to domainers. Google will not exit the domain channel anytime sooner, he said. He also gave assurance that Google does not want competition with domain parking providers and views them as a value added partner.
“We value our partners,” Hal said. “They provide value to us (Google) and they also provide value to (Domainers).” In the past year Google focused primarily on traffic quality, and that will be continued.
Once the floor was opened for questions, the session which started turned awkward for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, a few of the participated audience’s queries did not make sense about Google products were unrelated to Adsense for Domains. Hal Bailey’s group does not actually control the Adsense for Domains ‘direct’ product, but only works with their partners such as Oversee.
Secondly, the audience were generally hostile for Google’s lack of transparency. Also Bailey avoided (dodged) many queries simply stating that he could not comment. Also when Andrew Allemann asked Hal Bailey what was driving down the domain parking revenue other than the economy, Bailey replied it was indeed the economy.
Hal will be meeting with domainers face to face in the afternoon networking session today.