How To Choose a Domain Name – Part 2
Since there are now so many domain names registered, it becomes harder and harder to find a great top level domain name for a new site. Since most webmasters won’t have the big bucks to purchase an existing high quality domain a new industry has sprung up: professional domain namers.
Usually these folks/services charge pretty big money to find a brandable quality domain for your business/website idea, but Picky Domains has applied the Web 2.0 spirit of collaboration to the concept of domain naming and created a brilliant business where you can get a pile of great domain name suggestions for only $50.
This is how the service works. You deposit 50 dollars and tell us about the site you need a name for. What the site does or will do. How many letters or words in your domain you want max. What keywords absolutely have to be in the domain. Dashes or no dashes. Dot com only or not. If we can use slang or not. Etc.
We dispatch this information to our contributors and you start getting a list of available domain names via e-mail. If you see a name that’s a perfect match for your website, register it and let us know the domain name, so we can pay the person who came up with the name. If you don’t like any of the domain names we suggest, we’ll simply refund your 50 dollars upon your request. Our domain namers get paid ONLY if we can find a domain that you register.
Now that’s a very cool idea and a great way to leverage the power of the connected world to provide a low cost solution to a problem.
If you are at all serious about you project or business, then $50 seems like a very nominal fee for getting a team of domain namers to spit out a bunch of cool ideas.
- Jon Symons
Finding meta services, so you don’t have to.
P.S. This was the second of a three part series about choosing domain names. We’ve covered keywords in a domain name, this article which is about domain name brainstorming and in part three I’ll show you a tool that claims to actually score domain name (and complete URLs to tell you which ones are most profitable).