Domain Research Tools
An important part of building a successful website (LAMM) is having a good domain name. There are some basic, but simple rules to follow such as avoiding the use of too many hyphens, using the keyword in the domain name, using the 'established' top level domains such as com. org, in the UK .co.uk, or with country focussed sites the appropriate country domain such as .ca, .fi, .de etc etc.
But finding the domains can be a bind all by itself. Sometimes because everything we think of seems to have been used already, sometimes we just get a kind of writers' block. So today I hit Google to try to find some useful domain tools. I think I found a goody!
A free domain research tool called NameBoy
Nameboy's best claim to fame is in helping you past the creative barrier by making sensible suggestions for domain names based upon your keyword entries. As well as offering rhymes and/or hyphens as a part of the suggestion process the tool tells you which TLDs are available for each of your suggested domain names. Instantly you can see that even though .com is gone that .org is available. NameBoy
Filed under Blog Setups, Blogging Tools, LAMMs Techniques, Reviews by on Jun 12th, 2007.


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