Comments on: Finding a .com domain name for your startup

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:16:38 +0000

Hi,

Nice post. For the previous commenters – no need to wait for domains to drop. There are quite a lot of available domains, if you are creative.

See http://crazynamer.com
Will generate interesting names for a company or website, with surprisingly a lot of available short .com domains.

Hope someone finds it useful.

By: Lynnette

Lynnette — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:59:08 +0000

There are so many other considerations when chosing your domain name – if you are wanting to market your business online then you need to understand the search terms that your potential customers will be searching for in order to find you. Just buying your company’s name does not guarantee people will find you online, especially if your brand isnt well known. My advice is take advice from internet marketing specialists before parting with any of your hard earned cash.

By: MassiveMessage

MassiveMessage — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:02:30 +0000

I agree with prev posts, check out domains that are dropping. I had bought almost the full ‘monopoly’ set of domains for my company but the holy grail .com was already registered. I got the owners details through WHois and approached directly with an offer to purchase. Sooo glad that the buyer ignored these emails as 3 months later the registration expired and I bought the dropped name at a Snapnames auction for 5% of the price I was willing to pay!!

By: Sean Price

Sean Price — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:52:29 +0000

Great tool I use to find domains in a very nice way is domainr (http://domai.nr/) fantastic tool!

By: jonathanwthomas

jonathanwthomas — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:31:49 +0000

I also recommend http://dropped.ie – it’s a great way to search domains that have recently been dropped off the registrars and it will also help you come up with ideas if the domain you want isn’t available.

Generally, it’s not really the domain that matters – but what you end up putting on it. Just make it catchy and easy to remember and you should be fine. When we started Anglotopia – only Anglotopia.net was available so that’s what we bought. I later acquired the .com but that was after we’d already established our ‘brand’ so it just redirects to .net.

The more critical thing to worry about is making sure you rank in the search engine for your domain name – we get so much traffic from people who just search for ‘anglotopia’ rather that type in the URL so it’s important to be at the top of the results.

Many people prefer to have .com’s but choosing to generally go with .net domains has not stymied our growth at all.