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Domain Name Ideas for Your Business
by John Khu

To achieve success with your web site, you will need to choose the right type of domain name that is relevant to the theme of your web portal. Hence, choosing the correct name is very important. Almost all well-known web sites have names built around very sensitive and important keywords. Good keywords are very essential for the success of web sites. Web users enter their keywords of choice to search for information from the web. A web user who wants to have an access to information about a product or service will enter keywords in the search bar of the major search engines. Keyword types of domain names are very handy to develop your business ideas.

If you are running an orchid flower selling online business, then you may wish to choose a name like onlineorchidflowers.com. Likewise, a business that sells discount flowers will do well with a name like discountedflowers.com.

Choosing the right type of name is not at all difficult. You just need to use your common sense to find out a very good domain name. Here are some practical domain name ideas for your business:

1. All famous domain names are very short. People can easily type very short domain names unlike a long one that is difficult to type and remember. People also hate to type a very long name.

2. Let the name chosen be very simple. People always misspell domain names that are difficult to type. It is likely that someone may visit some other people's web site if they misspell your domain name.

3. Never ever, use a domain name that sounds like an established and approved trade name. You could land in serious trouble if you do that. Double-check your domain name before you publish it.

4. Let the name be relevant to the theme of your business. People want to reach web sites that reflect their needs and requirements.

5. Give preference to a .com domain-name extension. If it is not available, then you can take other domain extensions. .com is still the in thing!

6. If possible, register all similar domain names under different extensions like .net, .org, .biz etc. You can always redirect people to your main web site by using these domain names.

7. Never ever, use hyphens. Web users will never be able to remember them. It is also difficult to type these names. If someone is using domain name of your choice, do not order for a domain that contains hyphens in between. People may confuse your web site with similar sounding web sites. This will result in your web users visiting your competitor's web portals.

8. If you have a difficult to remember name, people may miss out some letters in the domain name. To avoid this possibility, you can register similar sounding names and redirect visitors from these domains to your main web site. All well-known web sites use these techniques even if someone types wrong URL in the address bar of the search engine.

Make sure that the domain of your choice is actually available with a registrar. You can use the Whois database to check whether the domain name of your choice is still available or not.

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John Khu is an author and also a seasoned professional with vast experience in expired domain name business. He is also the owner of the path breaking web sites called expireddomainsecret.com and expireddomaingains.com which provides complete and up-to-date information on expired domains and their eternal secrets.

John's article is perfect to get your domain name ideas flowing, which is why I sticky'ed his article. I'd also like to add a bunch of my own domain name ideas, but have no time, so here's just one to start ...

Own your own name.

Check to see if your name is available.

I own KimberlyTeed.com. My husband, son, and immediate family members all own their names. Why? Why not? Who else should own their name?

Just own it.

Even if you just use it for the e-mail account (free with all Teed Hosting domain name registrations), a me@yourname.com sounds more 'grown-up' -and is definitely more professional on a business card- than yourname@freemail.com. Plus! a huge bonus with using your own domain as your e-mail is, if you ever switch your internet service provider, you don't have to switch e-mail addresses. No more notifying your friends that you@msn.com is now you@comcast.net.


* I advised an ad sales guy to buy his name dot com, rather than use the employers-website.com/him URL. He didn't see it as helpful advice, and said he planned on staying with that company for-ever, but he bought his name dot com after some heavy nagging sessions.

Then, rather than having his assigned company's web page on his business card, I encouraged him to forwarded hisname.com to that page (easy/free with all Teed Hosting domain name registrations) and put hisname.com on his business cards. He also used me@hisname.com for his e-mail. A complete professional look ... and! ...

Since then, he's switched companies three times. He never had to send "I've changed companies!" notices, which no one ever keeps or updates their records after receiving, since all his information is the same, just the company name has changed.

All his past clients can find him without effort.


* If you plan on being famous, grab your name before your SAG card ... there are 10,000s of stories like Artie Lange's, the stand-up comedian/Howard Stern host. He is Artie dash Lange dot com (artie-lange.com), because someone bought his name when he was an up and coming famous guy, they'll sell it to him, but for a huge price tag. Every time Artie says he domain name, he apologies for the dash.

Shame.


* A guy peeved off some chick. She bought his name, made it a porn site, and pasted his face on pics of guys doing guys and barnyard animals. You could tell it was fake but, as a professional, he wasn't pleased with people searching his name and finding his face on smut. He called me, freaking out and begging for advice. No, I didn't say, "I told you to buy your name a long time ago to get that @gmail e-mail off your business card." but he did spend a lot of time, and effort to have the site taken down.

She didn't get a ring, but she still owns his name.


I won't bore you with more stories ...
But I will say -- for about $10 per year, there's no reason not to own you dot com. Who owns your name?

Check to see if your name is available.