Choosing The Right Domain
Name
Many people got lucky and sold their domain for unbelievable
prices. Was that pure luck? Or was there something that we
still don't know? Is there still domain-gold left in the
already mined domain market, to lay our hands on? Lets see.
First of all what we will look in some of the main reasons
which makes a domain priceless and sellable. # Generic or Day
to Day life words. # Their extensions weather it is .com or
.net. Its popularity. (Right now .com) # Less characters. (Say
4 or 5 at most) #
Their pronunciation. (Don't say epdu or something else it is
not pronounceable) # The keyboard relationship. (It would be
easier to type in "tyru" instead of "oqzk". Some companies who
wants brandable names see this) Now If we look into the very
first point about generic or day to day life words most of them
are taken.
So how to find some other? Here is the tip. Just try and sit
with a pen and paper when you are watching television. Write
down the words that you think might be available as a domain
name. You can do the same when you are reading some novel or
newspaper.
This trick surely pays I got many of my domains watching
"Terminator" and "Home Alone" kind of movies. Now the
extension. If you have found out a great word which is already
registered with .com extension. Then you can try other
TLD's.
But in this you run into some kind of risk. You can surely
reg "fast.net" & "Love.net" but you can't bet your money on
"babyboydomains.net" or "Simplyrockingnames.org". So just apply
some thinking over here. Talking about less characters If you
find a 3 letter name then just pounce on it. It really has the
market.
But there are none available right now. So look for 4 or 5
character names. Apply all our rules that we saw before and
even then if it passes through all that steps without a hitch
then take it in. Pronounceable or not is also a factor.
If you know english language, which I think you will be
knowing as you are reading this article then there are no
problems. For those who are weak at english they can try
http://www.thesaurus.com or any other dictionaries which are
available online to look for that name. Don't get discouraged
if your word is not listed in it.
You can surely ask some other guy on chat who is not
interested in domains about this word. Otherwise the guy to
whom you are asking may reg it before you and all your dreams
might get shattered into pieces. The last but not the least is
the keyboard relationship. Some companies may look into it.
If they are willing to spend their millions for this domain
and other millions for marketing it and making it into a brand.
You can try this. some words are just a flick on keyboard. As I
said before "tyru" is easy to type in. while oqzk is a bit
tougher. Just try it and see the difference.
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