Posted by Tauno on January 26, 2007 under Business Names, Domain Names, Domain Tools, Name Generator, Screen Names | 
Finding the perfect name is an important step every entrepreneur is facing when starting up a new business.
Having a brandable and memorable name is the foundation for a successful venture; not having it could cost you an arm and a leg in marketing costs, but no-one still remembers it.
With more than 80 million domain names already registered, you would get a serious headache brainstorming for names and looking them up in the Whois database one-by-one, only to find that all the sensible ones are already taken. But you can be sure, that good domain names are still out there. Its just not very easy to find them.
For that reason we can recommend a tool that can save you a lot of valuable time – MakeWords Domain Search and Suggestions tool .
Algorithms and language rules in MakeWords deliver hundreds of new unique name ideas instantly. It may take a couple of minutes of getting used to it, but once you do, you’ll save hours naming for your future products or brands. We even have pages where you can find a name for your pet, baby, roleplay character.
For Screen Names check out our sister site SpinXO.com.
Posted by Tauno on September 25, 2006 under Domain Name Basics, Domain Names, Domain Tools, Hosting, Internet, Technology, Web Hosting Reviews |
Are you about to give up hope on finding a good available domain name?
No worries, there is still an infinite number of available domains out there, its just a matter of finding them.
Recently some major web hosting companies have launched domain name suggestion engines that can give you hundreds of inspiring name ideas instantly. A few of them stand out by being significantly faster and user-friendlier than most:
Yahoo! Domain Name Suggestions – Link
Yahoo’s Domain Suggestions has an eye-catching ultramodern Web 2.0 feel. This search interface is done with Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) – the latest in web techniques for creating interactive web applications. You’ll notice that the pages are actually never reloaded when searcing. Page elements simply shift around softly, making the user experience dynamic and easy to use.
Lets say we need a name for an interior design site. Typing “interior design†to the search box produces the following results:
Not all of them are close to ideal, but there are a few that sound good and are actually quite search engine friendly – meaning that they contain the actual words people would be searching for. Note that you have to click on “See more†to view all results.
The speed of looking up over 100 domain names is simply astonishing – new results are returned in less than one second thanks to Ajax.
Click here to try it – Yahoo Domains Suggestion Engine
GoDaddy Domains Smart Search – Link
GoDaddy’s first set of results is for .com domains only, but later you can select other extenisions like .net, .info, .biz, .us etc.
We’ll try the interior design search once again.
Click on the See other domains like this link to view all suggestions.
GoDaddy offers various options to customize your domain search – add popular affixes or suffixes, include dashes in the name or use related keywords.
Click here to try it – GoDaddy Smart Search
MakeWords Domain Name Generator – Link
MakeWords is the one with most advanced features. Names can be created with random phonetic words, that sound like they would derive from English language. The popular affixes search is similar to Yahoo! and GoDaddy, with tens of different affix categories to choose from. The synonym search suggests similar keywords that can be combined with an extra affix of suffix.
There are links for checking the domain popularity, Google results and business name availability. Similar to Yahoo, this site also uses the Ajax interface.
At first it may all seem a bit overwhelming, but that is usually the case whan you have so many custom search options.
Click here to try it – MakeWords Name Generator
Good luck with your domain name search!
