Finding a Domain Name, the Fun Way

19Jan08

    This post will kick off a series of posts on website development, blogging, and my career as a “freelance pc consultant” (read: computer-guy). Today’s topic: How to find a Domain for your website. “www.f*c*me.com” seems to be taken, so now what?

Now we go to a domain search. I found a fun one today called Nameboy Unlimited. This site will take two keywords that you want in your domain name, and test a whole slew of similar domains to find whether their taken or not. Guess what word I used to find out that knockbootz.com happens to be free?

Combine this tool with an expired-domain search, and you can really get inspiration for your domain name. By searching the expired / expiring list you can find out if a really great name is about to expire, and get rights to it before it actually expires.

No doubt you can guess what kinds of names I’m looking for that would be a good home for an expanded version of this blog. Liberty, freedom, happiness, self, psychology, etc.. By using a service like nameboy I get suggestions that I might not ever have though of otherwise. It turns out that some very cool domains are unregistered; Like “libertyandthepursuit.com” or “freedomportal.biz” (IIRC).

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