When coming up with a new business name, sure, it's probably possible to find a suitable name in .net space, but these days, why bother? Unless it's unique you'd not be able to find the same name free in the .com space, which is where everyone would probably look in first. Better to simply research/brainstorm further and find a name you can acquire/repurchase in the .com arena and bypass all the confusion/customer education.
On that note, I recently launched a new domain search tool called Lean Domain Search [1] which makes finding available .com's infinitely easier than it's ever been. It pairs your search term with 2,500 other keywords commonly found in domain names and instantly shows you which are still available, returning on average 1,200 available domain names per search.
Given the abundance of great .com's still out there, there is no good reason not to use a .com for your site over any of the other TLDs especially since as the author points out, for most normal people websites === .com.
I don't know much about the business of domain names, so this may be a dumb question, but... if this service got popular, could you use some of the common (and/or recent) search terms to inform speculative domain purchases? If so, are you concerned that would make your target audience less likely to want to use a 3rd party service like this (b/c they don't want their potential domains snatched up)?
Of course I could do that. As a web app developer, I could also sell details about who my users are, what their passwords are (if I didn't salt+hash them), what actions they've taken on my sites, etc. Both would ruin my businesses and be highly unethical, which is why I would never do either.
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When coming up with a new business name, sure, it's probably possible to find a suitable name in .net space, but these days, why bother? Unless it's unique you'd not be able to find the same name free in the .com space, which is where everyone would probably look in first. Better to simply research/brainstorm further and find a name you can acquire/repurchase in the .com arena and bypass all the confusion/customer education.
On that note, I recently launched a new domain search tool called Lean Domain Search [1] which makes finding available .com's infinitely easier than it's ever been. It pairs your search term with 2,500 other keywords commonly found in domain names and instantly shows you which are still available, returning on average 1,200 available domain names per search.
Given the abundance of great .com's still out there, there is no good reason not to use a .com for your site over any of the other TLDs especially since as the author points out, for most normal people websites === .com.
[1] http://www.leandomainsearch.com
I don't know much about the business of domain names, so this may be a dumb question, but... if this service got popular, could you use some of the common (and/or recent) search terms to inform speculative domain purchases? If so, are you concerned that would make your target audience less likely to want to use a 3rd party service like this (b/c they don't want their potential domains snatched up)?
Of course I could do that. As a web app developer, I could also sell details about who my users are, what their passwords are (if I didn't salt+hash them), what actions they've taken on my sites, etc. Both would ruin my businesses and be highly unethical, which is why I would never do either.
"Oops, we ran into a problem processing this search term. We've been notified and will fix the issue within the week.
If you have any questions, please contact matt@leandomainsearch.com or say hi @mhmazur."
I tried two words: "power tube"
Will check it out -- thanks.
There is a lot of good competition in this space.
We have quite a number of algorithms also (we used the whole of wikipedia's ngrams among others).
http://nametoolkit.com/