Every Domain is Gone
Armed with domaintools.com and an overactive imagination I have been searching for a new domain name for the last few days to fit a suite of website assistance tools I’ve been working on.
It’s tough. I have the mentality of a person who needs a dotcom, but they’re taken either by squatters or people who registered the site for 8 years and has done precisely nothing with them.
Seriously - today’s inspiration was kites. I don’t know why. Tried flyakite.com, redkite.com, bigkite.com but they’re gone. Section6.com (I have no idea either…) was taken. Letter6.com was gone (who the hell wants letter6.com?)
I want something vaguely clever (kites and other words aren’t clever, but what the heck is 37signals all about? People seem to remember those guys…) but I lack inspiration and I tire of dictionaries easily.
doihavetime.com is about the best I’ve ever had, and I should’ve kept thebloghouse.com (it was quickly snapped up after I let it lapse, I think).
Anyway, no point to this post other than yet another rant (/goes to check domain exists….ooh, yetanotherrant.com is free :o)
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May 16th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Oh dear
What’s wrong with hypens and .co.uk .biz or any other variation! [allenglishwords].com is going to be basically sold out due to ott demand and the limited number of combinations of 3 short words that make sense.
i.e. zooiglooidiot.com is free, but a little odd, so it seems you can’t get many millions of site names by choosing any 3 words from an English dictationary…
What’s in a name? Don’t most people use search engines these days?
May 16th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I think the thing that gets to me is the sheer number of domains that have been vacuumed up by either squatters or people who buy domains but never use them (admittedly I’m quite guilty of the latter too).
So many of them are bought by people/companies who Domaintools reports “this person also owns about 1.5million other domains…” and I just think I could put them to better use
There’s always buying domains, but I’ve never tried it and always been a bit unkeen to deal with squatter sorts.
A short twist on yours: I quite like zooigloo.com - that’s free as well. I suppose it’s worth remembering things like “Fire Eagle” appear to do OK.