A curious, but not unexpected, occurrence is happening online; that of domain name abandonment. Curious in that you would think that by now someone would have created a personal domain tracking app, (much like Roboform, a personal password tracker), that maintains your domain expiration dates for you, as opposed to entrusting a registry company, such as godaddy or Network Solutions. Domain registration abandonment is expected, however, as people and companies move on, go out of business, shift focus… and simply forget to renew the domain or decide not to.
Our friend, Bill Myers, discovered a great free tool to check the availability of great domain names. This free tool searches all available combinations of any given word (and synonyms) instantly and shows what domain names are available. Suppose you have a niche market you are curious about, e.g. “learning”, this search tool will even give you available domains with the word “study” in it.
I’ll let Bill explain it in his video:
http://www.bmyers.com/public/1546.cfm
. You can skip the video, though I recommend viewing it, and go directly to the free domain name finder:
http://domain.domainsection.net/domain.php?action=domain_suggest
.)
http://www.bmyers.com/public/1546.cfm
. You can skip the video, though I recommend viewing it, and go directly to the free domain name finder:
http://domain.domainsection.net/domain.php?action=domain_suggest
.)
Happy hunting.
As is my sense of humor, the WSJ posted these funny law firm names and or domains:
First prize goes to:
Followed very closely by:
With runners-up:
Slaughter & Slaughter
Slaughter & Slaughter
It isn’t the firm name that’s funny, but Holland & Knight has two partners, one named Harry Potter and the other, Frank Sinatra.
Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen in Chesterfield, Va.
Only two of the Allens are represented in the domain name:
http://www.allenandallen.com/
Only two of the Allens are represented in the domain name:
http://www.allenandallen.com/
Freeborn & Peters: site: freebornpeters.com
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