Great article. I also use Domainr.com to help me find interesting ways to create domains and check their availability.
alan jones
· 3 months ago
Cheers Ned, I meant to include Domainr too. Thanks for reminding me. Note the correct url is domai.nr not domainr.com, and that highlights an interesting issue with domains that include part of the brand name in the TLD (the part of the domain that includes the ".com" or ".biz" or ".net") — it's harder for consumers to remember them. Del.icio.us has changed to Delicious.com for that reason.
Though they're of-the-moment now, I think they'll be very five-years- ago in five years' time.
Domai.nr is really good at finding potential brand names in the rarer small nation TLDs like ".ne" and ".nr" but I would recommend steering clear of them unless you really have no alternative.
David Jones
· 3 months ago
Once again Alan writes with substance, concision and perfect prose. I love the process and will give it a try when I need it next.
I understand iSnack 2.0 will shortly become available.
Seriously though, how does a large multinational with huge amounts of resources manage to get this so wrong?
I'm coming to the conclusion small businesses, not so much dictatorships, but bands of like-minded smart people with imagination, easily trump the corporations when it comes to this kind of task.
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Note the correct url is domai.nr not domainr.com, and that highlights
an interesting issue with domains that include part of the brand name
in the TLD (the part of the domain that includes the ".com" or ".biz"
or ".net") — it's harder for consumers to remember them. Del.icio.us
has changed to Delicious.com for that reason.
Though they're of-the-moment now, I think they'll be very five-years-
ago in five years' time.
Domai.nr is really good at finding potential brand names in the rarer
small nation TLDs like ".ne" and ".nr" but I would recommend steering
clear of them unless you really have no alternative.
Once again Alan writes with substance, concision and perfect prose. I love the process and will give it a try when I need it next.
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Seriously though, how does a large multinational with huge amounts of resources manage to get this so wrong?
I'm coming to the conclusion small businesses, not so much dictatorships, but bands of like-minded smart people with imagination, easily trump the corporations when it comes to this kind of task.