How to Choose a Good Domain Name
It’s harder and harder to think of a good domain name that isn’t taken. I keep thinking of great ideas, only to find that they have already been though of and registered by someone else (or just as likely, a computer). This leads to thinking up alternative names that are not nearly as good.
I found this interesting article about domain names on the LearningCentre forum. The article covers ten types of domain name, with a description, pros, cons and examples of each. Here is a summary of the name types:
- Real Words
- Compounds
- Phrases
- Blends
- Tweaked words
- Affixed words
- Made up or obscure origin
- Puns
- People’s names (real or fictitious)
- Initials and Acronyms
The ideas in the Name Inspector’s article will help feed my lateral-thinking engine!
Comments
One comment:
Great post - names are tricky since ‘all the good ones are taken.’ In my old company we chose 5 letter names (cuz the boss said that was best :|)… and in my new company I was going for catchy. My names all sucked (boring) - and then a buddy came up with JibberJobber.com. Close to JibberJabber - but available! Not too shabby, eh?
Jason Alba / March 7th, 2007, 6:50 pm / #
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