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When you want to find a good domain name to go with your existing enterprise, or because you are setting up a new business you may need advice about the best way to do it. Firstly, you will have to accept that the top generic names the 'beachfront properties' of the web are all already owned. In fact, it may already be true that all dictionary words havealready been taken. The reason for that is more and more internet users have become well-informed enough to simply enter a possible name into the web address field of their browser. As an example, a searcher looking for info about coffee, or wishing to get coffee online would just type coffee.com into the address field. This gives a reasonable result, and is faster than using a search engine. The owners of the site, of course, get large amounts of free visitors to their sites. Generic names like guitar.com, ribbon.com and so on may be open to approaches by their owners, but be willing to spend a fortune to get them. I will take it for granted you are not in this market, which is ridiculously inflated, but wish to buy a new, relevant name, which fits with your business or area for your freash web site. In this case, there are many smart ways to proceed. To explore them, I'll use an example. My subject for the new internet site I want to build is collectibles. I do a quick check, and see that all the dot suffixes for the word collectibles itself are registered - .com, .net, info and so on. One option is to add a good adjective, and make a two word name. Things like small-collectibles.com, discount-collectibles or golden-collectibles.com may be a good fit for your site, and still give users a good indication of what your site is about. Using free keyword tools like keyworddiscovery you can insert your keyword and find out what search terms searchers are using when searching. Performing a search, words like country, cat, firefighter and so on are common words easy to combine with 'collectibles', depending on whether they are in accord with the purpose and focus of the new site. You could also try thinks like mycollectibles.com (consider myspace.com). Very often, this method of discovering what people want will actually give you a worthwhile idea for the focus of your new site. However, if your subject has a geographical element, you can use that element with the focus of your site mytown-collectibles, discount-mystate-collectibles or similar. Another commonly used option is adding a single letter prefix. For my subject, this would give me iCollectibles or eCollectibles, or hyphenated versions, as a good set to look at. You could also use a given name in addition to the subjectof your projected site, depending on how familiar you would allow your site to be robs-collectibles.com. Another way of proceeding is to buy a domain name with no meaning, and spend some time and money on its branding. Words like google, orbitz, expedia and netscape are examples of this. Its hard to believe, but these were formerly words unknown to any dictionary. Who would not like to own those domains now?
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