Finding a Great Domain is Easier Than You May Think

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By: OpenSRS Team on December 17th, 2007
Posted in: OpenSRS Services
Tags: Domains Service
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We know online identity for your business or yourself starts with a domain name, but what if you have the perfect name and can’t get a domain to match? Most single English word domain names are registered already, so it can take some serious thought to come up with something that sticks and is available. Scott over at HalfAgain Internet marketing has some tips and suggestions for you if you’re looking for that perfect name. He starts with domain availability:

Domain availability is possibly the biggest hang-up to ever happen to naming. Sure, you can come up with great potential names, but can you come up with great potential domains that are available?

I won’t spend much time on this because it’s pretty simple. If you’re creating a name for a product or business that will require a .com, be patient, keep trying and you’ll start to get a feel for names that are more likely to be available than others.

The problem is that many domain search tools give a yes or no answer when you query a domain. If you happen to type in a name that is free, you pass through the gates to registration but if not, you’re stopped in your tracks. It doesn’t need to be frustrating if you use the right domain registration service.

Tucows has a couple of domain search tools that help people find quality domain names. The first is name suggestion. Our resellers provide ideas for other names based on the terms you enter in domain name search box.

Really good .com names are getting scarce. Tucows offers access to hundreds of thousands of high-quality domain names that are already owned but available for a one-time fee. These are offered in our Premium Domains service. If you’re a rocker who wants heavymetal.com, you’re S.O.L. But, heavymetalalbums.com is available in our Premium Domains service.

Tucows domain resellers have free access to Name Suggestion and our Premium Domains service. Try it out for yourself, and happy naming. Oh, and last week Adam Eisner gave a reseller webinar about our domain search tools, the video archive of that presentation is available here.